The formal specification of design patterns is widely recognized as being vital to their effective and correct use in software development. It can clarify the concepts underlying ...
Design patterns have been enthusiastically embraced in the software engineering community as well as in the web community since they capture knowledge about how and when to apply a...
Extensibility and maintainability of software becomes more an issue as the complexity of the software development process rises. Design patterns in the sense of Gamma et al. [3] a...
Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we pr...
Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz,...