The Demeter Seminar meets this quarter from 10-12 on Friday
morning in 206 Egan Center.
For more info: 
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/seminar/
seminar.txt contains information for the current quarter.

The seminar is suitable for students who have taken COM3360
or are currently taking COM1205.

The seminar is also suitable for advanced software developers in industry
or academia who have read some of our papers on Adaptive Programming.
(See http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter)
Depending on the interests of the participants we will
add a specific technology transfer component to the seminar.

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Friday, Feb. 28

Presentation 1:

Boaz Patt-Shamir:
A new technique to compile adaptive programs

The language of traversal specifications has been improved to:
{["from"|"through"|"to"] S ["bypassing" S]}*
where S is a set of vertices and edges.
An elegant compilation algorithm has been developed which reduces
the compilation problem essentially to computing the propagation
graph for a "big" graph which contains n-1 modified copies of the original
class graph. n is the number of iterations in the above Kleene star.

The compilation algorithm is shown to be correct with respect
to the traversal semantics of the TOPLAS paper by Palsberg et al.

An extension of the above traversal specification language
we plan to put into Demeter/Java.
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Presentation 2:

Doug Orleans, Karl Lieberherr: 
Features of the new Demeter/Java for programming in the large.

Java supports packages consisting of multiple compilation units.
The latest version of Demeter/Java makes the Java features
for programming in the large accessible from the class dictionary
notation.

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Presentation 3:

Karl Lieberherr:
Parametric polymorphism required for adaptive programming

To make adaptive programs more reusable, we need to investigate
suitable parameterization mechanisms. For example,
we need to pass traversals as arguments.
Question 4 in the midterm of my software design and development
class at URL:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/course/exams/m-1205-w97
serves as an inspiration.

Planned talks:
Luis Blando on Corba.
Lars Hansen on around methods and
  aspect-oriented exception handling (Spring quarter).

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