Project Ideas for COM3360/NTU SE 737

Demonstration projects
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Choose a suitable part of a project which you and others implemented
elsewhere and redo that part with Demeter and maybe Isthmus.
It would be good to have statistics on the old project regarding
code size and development time etc.

Keep a good record of statistical information for the new project
and compare the results for the old project with the results
for the new project. How can you measure the flexibility of the 
adaptive software relative to the old software?

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Visual Programming

Using Demeter and Isthmus, develop a tool for developing propagation
directives graphically.

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Improve Portability of Demeter Tools

For non-experts it is time-consuming to port Demeter to a new platform,
e.g., Linux. Improve the structure and documentation
of the system so that porting becomes easier.
Apply improved porting process to one port.

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Unified Method

Booch and Rumbaugh and Jacobson have set out to integrate their methods.
(See the Rational document below. Order it, if you want to do this
project.)

Generalize Adaptive Programming so that class diagrams of the Unified
Method may be used as customizers of Adaptive Programs.
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Copies of the Rumbaugh/Booch Unified Method paper
are available free of charge from Rational Software
Corporation. To receive a copy, please email your
snail mail address to product_info@rational.com

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Evolution of Adaptive Programs

The work of Huersch and Seiter has studied automatic evolution of
adaptive programs under certain class dictionary transformations.
Implement some of the transformations.

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Standard Template Library

STL is now available and is a standard. Replace the Demeter Repetition
class by the STL library and extend the cd notation to select different
implementations of collection classes. Adjust the Demeter code
generators.

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Smalltalk

Create Demeter Tools/Smalltalk. Requires 3-4 team members:
two for the generic library, one for generate and one for propagate.
Use GNU Smalltalk.

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