General talk about software patterns

[Christian Crumlish <xian AT yahoo-inc.com>]

there is also the never-quite-finished but implemented-by-Welie PLML  
format:

http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/saf/patterns/plml.html

I hope to support that in the Yahoo! library sometime "real soon now."

        --xian



On Oct 16, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Jens Dietrich wrote:

> Hi Juha,
>
> Yes, we have done exactly this. It has resulted in a Eclipse plugin  
> that
> can find and download pattern descriptions in RDF (instantiating an
> ontology) from the web, and use them to find pattern instances in  
> programs.
>
> The software is available: http://sourceforge.net/projects/webofpatterns/
>
> We haven't maintained it for some time, you might have to check out  
> the
> code from the repository and build it manually against latest versions
> of Eclipse / Java.
>
> Our original paper was
>
> Dietrich, J., Elgar, C.: A formal Description of Design Patterns using
> OWL. Proceedings of the 16th Australian Conference on Software
> Engineering (ASWEC 2005), IEEE Computer Society, 2005.
>
> We later extended this in various directions, this has resulted in  
> these
> papers:
>
> Dietrich, J., Jones, N., Wright, J.: Using Social Networking and
> Semantic Web Technology in Software Engineering - Use Cases, Patterns,
> and a Case Study. Extended version of the ASWEC2007 paper, Journal for
> Systems and Software (JSS). Volume 81, Issue 12 (December 2008), p.
> 2183-2193.
>
> Dietrich, J., Elgar, C.: An Ontology Based Representation of Software
> Design Patterns. In Toufik Taibi (editor): Design Pattern  
> Formalization
> Techniques. Idea Group Inc., 2007. ISBN: 978-1-59904-219-0.
>
> Dietrich, J., Elgar, C.: Towards a Web of Patterns. Journal of Web
> Semantics, Volume 5 , Issue 2 (June 2007), p. 108-116.
>
>
> http://code.google.com/p/gql4jung/ is kind of a follow-on project, but
> we are using graph queries instead of RDF to describe  
> (anti-)patterns here.
>
> Cheers, Jens
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Juha Parssinen 
> <juha.parssinen AT vtt.fi>:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Do you have experience using semantics and ontologies to describe
> > patterns? Any links to success stories and failures? Reason why I ask
> > this in this forum is that some of associates have a project starting
> > where they are planning to do this kind of research in one particular
> > domain. Even I have some know-how about patterns and ontologies, in  
> > my
> > own work I have been using textual format (GOF, Coplien and
> > Alexandrian-like) to describe patterns.
> >
> > Your help to find information about this subject will be much
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Juha
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
>
> Juha Parssinen wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Do you have experience using semantics and ontologies to describe
> > patterns? Any links to success stories and failures? Reason why I ask
> > this in this forum is that some of associates have a project starting
> > where they are planning to do this kind of research in one particular
> > domain. Even I have some know-how about patterns and ontologies, in  
> > my
> > own work I have been using textual format (GOF, Coplien and
> > Alexandrian-like) to describe patterns.
> >
> > Your help to find information about this subject will be much
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Juha
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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