General talk about software patterns

[Jens Dietrich <j.b.dietrich AT massey.ac.nz>]

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 
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> patterns-discussion mailing list
> patterns-discussion AT cs.uiuc.edu
> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/patterns-discussion
>   


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