[PRL] DEMETER Seminar

[Karl Lieberherr]

Fall Semester 2003
Demeter Seminar
Friday 10-11.15 in 149 CN
149 Cullinane Hall
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/research/demeter/seminar/seminar.html
The first two seminars will be about 2 of the three OOPSLA papers from
CCIS this year. Those will be practice talks for the conference
presentation.
The first is a 25 minute presentation followed by discussion.
The second one is a 45 minute presentation.

-- Karl

October 3
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Topic: Aspectual Domain Specific Languages
Presentation by K. Lieberherr

Paper:
@inproceedings{XAspects:SLS-oopsla-03,
AUTHOR = "Macneil Shonle and Karl Lieberherr and Ankit Shah",
TITLE = "XAspects: An Extensible System for Domain Specific Aspect
Languages",
booktitle = "OOPSLA '2003, Domain-Driven Development Track",
YEAR = 2003,
MONTH = "October"
}

Oktober 17
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Topic: Beyond AOP: Toward Naturalistic Programming
Presentation: Karl Lieberherr and David Lorenz

@INPROCEEDINGS{solomon:param,
AUTHOR = "Cristina Videira Lopes and Paul Dourish  and David H. Lorenz and
Karl
Lieberherr",
TITLE = "Beyond AOP: Toward Naturalistic Programming",
BOOKTITLE = oopsla,
YEAR = "2003",
ADDRESS = "Anaheim",
PAGES = "",
EDITOR = "",
PUBLISHER = "ACM Press",
NOTE = "Onward! Track"
}

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Date and Speaker to be determined

Topic: Environmental Acquisition - New Inheritance-Like Abstraction
Mechanism
       by Joseph Gil and David Lorenz: OOPSLA 96

@InProceedings{Gil:1996:EAN,
Author = {Joseph Gil and David~H. Lorenz},
Crossref = {OOPSLA:96},
Pages = "214--231",
Title = "{Environmental} {Acquisition}--{A} New Inheritance-Like Abstraction
Mec
hanism",
Year = 1996,
}

Note by Karl:
This paper opens an interesting application domain for AP
which provides succinct specifications for containment relationships
along which acquisition takes place.

For example, for a Door-object d it depends whether "from Car to Door" or
"from Airplane via Cabin to Door" holds for d
to determine what kind of properties the door will acquire from its
environment.

This application of AP leads to structure-shy acquisition
that deserves further exploration.

See also the chapter: "Minimizing Information Acquisition Cost"
in Walter Huersch's PhD thesis.
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lieber/theses-index.html

@TECHREPORT{hb95:acquisition,
AUTHOR  = "Walter L. H{\"u}rsch and Ivan Baev",
TITLE           = "Minimizing Information Acquisition Cost in
Object-Oriented Systems",
INSTITUTION     = "College of Computer Science, Northeastern University",
YEAR            = 1995,
MONTH           = "June",
NUMBER  = "{NU-CCS-95-09}",
ADDRESS = "Boston, MA"
}

Walter's work is about finding a hub in an object graph at which all
"acquired" objects should meet to get a job done.