The Demeter Seminar meets in the Summer 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/

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June 9:

Karl Lieberherr will summarize the paper:

@ARTICLE{gehani:capsules,
AUTHOR = " N.H. Gehani",
TITLE = "Capsules: A Shared Memory Access for Concurrent C/C++",
JOURNAL = "IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distr. Systems",
YEAR = 1993,
PAGES = "795-811",
MONTH = "July",
VOLUME = 4,
NUMBER = 7
}

It presents an approach which is related to Cristina Lopes'
coordination objects.

We will also summarize the paper:

@INPROCEEDINGS{robbins:reusable-objects,
AUTHOR    = "David Morley and Stephen Chiu and Jason Robbins and
Tim Maddux and Geoffrey Voelker",
TITLE     = "Reusable Objects",
BOOKTITLE = tools-e,
YEAR      = 1991,
PUBLISHER = "Prentice-Hall",
PAGES     = "",
ADDRESS   = "Paris, France"}

which presents an early approach to traversal strategies
for the purpose of object copying.

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Special Demeter Seminar on Feature-oriented programming:
(extended version of ECOOP '97 presentation)


Friday, June 20
11 am, 
Egan Research Center, Room 206.


	  Feature-Oriented Programming: 
	    A Fresh Look at Objects

	        Christian Prehofer
       		   TU M"unchen

We propose a new model for flexible composition of objects from a set
of features.  Features are similar to (abstract) subclasses, but only
provide the core functionality of a (sub)class.  Overwriting other
methods is viewed as resolving feature interactions and is specified
separately for two features at a time.  This programming model allows
to compose features (almost) freely in a way which generalizes
inheritance and aggregation.  For a set of n features, an
exponential number of different feature combinations is possible,
assuming a quadratic number of interaction resolutions.  We present
the feature model as an extension of Java and give two translations to
Java, one via inheritance and the other via aggregation.  We further
discuss parameterized features, which work nicely with our feature
model and can be translated into Pizza, an extension of Java.


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Dr. Christian Prehofer		
Institut f"ur Informatik, SB3   prehofer@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
http://www4.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~prehofer




-- Karl Lieberherr