General talk about software patterns

["Pont, Michael J." <michael.pont AT tesco.net>]

I'm helping to deliver a new course on patterns through the University of 
Leicester (UK) next month.  The course syllabus is here for anyone who may be 
interested: 
http://www.tte-systems.com/services/training/msc/modules#a3 
 
I'm looking for some further examples / anecdotes / stories on pattern mining 
which people are willing to share.  Please note that I'm interested in *all* 
domains: the patterns don't need to be linked to embedded systems in any way. 
 
What we'd really like is to find is a few personal stories along the lines of 
"this is how we identified the XXX pattern which was shepherded and 
workshopped 
at xPLoP in yyyy". 
 
We don't need polished essays: we are simply looking for a few sentences 
about 
the way in which you found a particular pattern (ideally a published pattern 
or 
one that you can share with us - and we can share with our students). 
 
If you've described you mining process in a report, etc, please let us know - 
again, we'd like to be able to distribute the report to our students. 
 
We will (of course) acknowledge our sources in full. 
 
Your help would be much appreciated. 
 
Thank you. 
 
Best wishes, 
 
Michael. 
 
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 Michael J. Pont, PhD 
 Embedded Systems Laboratory, 
 University of Leicester 
 
 http://www.le.ac.uk/eg/mjp9/ 
 
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