Title: Five Patterns for Adaptive Programming
Speaker: Karl J. Lieberherr, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Abstract: Over the last five years we developed an object-oriented
programming style based on the Law of Demeter which leads
to more flexible and simpler programs. We observed variants of
this style of programming also in the work of others in the areas of
data bases, attribute grammars, functional programming, 
reflection, and digital signal 
processing.  Therefore this work is ripe to put into patterns form to 
disseminate it more widely.  We summarize the adaptive programming style in 
the form of five patterns: Inventor's Paradox, Structure-Shy Traversal, 
Structure-Shy Object, Context, and Class Graph. You can read them at URL:
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/adaptive-patterns/AOP/

Reference: 
Adaptive Object-Oriented Software: 
The Demeter Method with Propagation Patterns,
Karl Lieberherr, PWS Publishing Company, ISBN: 0-534-94602-X, 1996.
Foreword by Gregor Kiczales and John Lamping from Xerox PARC.

A shortened version of chapter 1 of the book also appeared in:
``Adaptive Object-Oriented Programming using Graph-Based Customization'',
by Karl Lieberherr,  Ignacio Silva-Lepe and Cun Xiao,
Communications of the ACM, May 1994, pages 94-101.

and was reviewed in ACM Computing Reviews, October 1995, page 528.

Quote from review:
"If you have been writing object-oriented programs
and are interested in what comes next, this paper is certainly for you."

For more information: 
WWW:   http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter
email: lieberherr@ccs.neu.edu or (regarding book) info@pws.com