Organised by 
Yvonne Dittrich and Kasper Østerbye

Where? IT-University Copenhagen, Glentevej 67, room 1.03 on the Thursdays and room 3.14 on Wednesday 19/5.
When? 13-16, dates see below, contents to be finalised.

To register for the course: please contact Camilla Jensen < cje@itu.dk>. See the official announcement for more practical information.

Description:
Flexibility and adaptability is a quality of software that has been sought by many researchers and developers. The goal of this course is to provide an overview of some of the many different approaches that have been brought forward.
The course should be relevant for students with an interest in software adaptability in general, for students who are working with one specific approach, enabling them to see a broader view of the field.
The format will be paper presentations and discussions (in part by the participants), meeting once every second week, and concluding with a written essay. There will be 8 or 9 meetings during the full spring semester (depending on holidays and weekday of the course).
The course is pass/fail based on active participation and the essay.

!! The following literature list for the individual seminars is still work in progress!!

Introduction and lecture (February 12th)

Symbolic Machines and Auto-Operational Form, Yvonne Dittrich

Pattern and framework based approaches (February 26th)

• Gamma et al, Design Patterns, chapter 2
• Jan Bosch.Design Patterns as Language Constructs. Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, vol 11, no 2, 1998. pages 18-32.
• Bent Bruun Kristensen.Architectural Abstractions and Language Mechanisms. Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference '96, Seoul, Korea, 1996

Component based approaches (March 11th)

• Kay, A.C. (1977). Microelectronics and the Personal Computer. Scientific American, September, 231-244. (This is an improved copy!)
• Brereton, P., Budgen, D. (2000) Component-Based Systems: a Classification of Issues. IEEE Computer Nov 2000, pp. 54ff.
• Stiemerling, O. Cremers, A.B. The Evolve Project: Component-Based Tailorability for CSCW Applications. AI& Society (2000), 14, pp 120-141.

Open implemetation (March 25th)

• O. Lindeberg, J. Eriksson, and Y. Dittrich Using Metaobject Protocol to Implement Tailoring; Possibilities and Problems. Proceedings of the 6th World Conference on Integrated Design & Process Technology (IDPT '02), Pasadena, USA, 2002.
• G. Kiczales Towards a New Model of Abstraction in the Engineering of Software. Proceedings of International Workshop on New Models for Software Architecture (IMSA): Reflection and Meta-Level Architecture, Tama City, Tokyo, 1992.
• R. Rao Implementational Reflection in Silica. Proceedings of ECOOP’91.
• G. Kiczales et al.Open Implementation Design Guidelines. In proceedings of International Conference on Soft-ware Engineering, 1997. Pages 481-490,

Reflection approaches (April 22nd)

• Kasper Graversen and Jacob Borella. The Object Role Pattern. Work in Progress.
• P. MaesConcepts and Experiments in Computational reflection. OOPSLA proceedings, 1987.
• F.-N. Demers, & J. MalenfantReflection in logic, functional and object-oriented programming: a Short comparative study. In Proceedings of the IJCAI'95 Workshop on Reflection and Metalevel Architectures and their Applications in AI, pages 29-38, August 1995

Embedding domain specific languages (Mai 6th)

• Mejstad, V., Tångby, K.-J. and Lundberg, L. Improving Multiprocessor Performance of a Large Telecommuni-cation System by Replacing Interpretation with Compilation. In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Interna-tional Conference and Workshop on the Engineering
• Kutter, P., Schweizer, D., and Thiele, L. Integrating Domain Specific Language Design in the Software Life Cycle. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Current Trneds in Applied Formal Methods. Springer 1998.

End user programming (Mai 19th)

• Repenning A. Iodannidou, A. Zola, J. AgentSheets: End-User programmable Simulations. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation Vol. 3, no. 3. 2000.
• Trigg, R. & S. Bødker (1994), From Implementation to Design: Tailoring and the Emergence of Systematization in CSCW, Proceedings of the CSCW ’94, ACM-Press, New York, pp. 45-55.
• Dittrich, Y., L. Lundberg, O. Lindeberg When Maintenance becomes Use. Experiences from two industrial cases of EUD.When Maintenance becomes Use. Experiences from two industrial cases of EUD. (work in progress).

Large scale tailoring (June 3rd)

Presentation by Microsoft Business Solutions

Other recommended reading:

• G. Kiczales, The Art of the MetaObject Protocol. England: MIT Press, 1991.
• Krzysztof Czarnecki and Ulrich Eisenecker. Generative programming, methods, tools and applications. Addison Wesley, 2000.
• N. Patel: Adaptive Evolutionary Information Systems. Idea Group Publishing, Hersley 2003.
• Gamma et al., Design Patterns. Addison Wesley, 1995.