The Demeter Seminar meets in the Spring quarter from 3-5 on Monday
afternoon in 206 Egan Center.
(if 206 is occupied, we meet in 222 EG in one of the
CS seminar rooms; this happens on a few Mondays)

For more info: 
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/seminar/
seminar.txt contains information for the current quarter.

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June 2:

Boaz Patt-Shamir:

Traversal Strategies and Their Efficient Implementation

A new programming model will be presented where programs are written
essentially as graphs and visitors. 
A class graph is used to describe object structure
and strategy graphs are used to describe traversal strategies
for the class graph. The strategy graphs are combined with visitor objects
to define the behavior.

The novel contributions are:

1. Strategies are now general graphs. 

2. A new intermediate form for adaptive programs is presented
   which allows for efficient interpretation. It is shown that
   in some cases interpretation is the only efficient solution
   since compilation might lead to an exponential growth
   in program size.

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Crista Lopes:

Design and Implementation of D

D is an aspect-oriented programming system for a certain class
of distributed applications. It is being implemented at Xerox PARC.
Crista will present the ideas behind her algorithms in
the weaver for D and the connections between the algorithms
and the design of D.

If we run out of time, we will schedule a follow-on seminar on Tuesday
which is convenient to the participants.

-- Karl Lieberherr