General talk about software patterns

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

Hi Jake,

There is a lot of research on design pattern formalisation, often in the 
context of tools to find pattern instances in programs. A (not up to date) 
summary can be found in this book: 

Toufik Taibi (editor): Design Pattern Formalization Techniques. Idea Group 
Inc., 2007.

We have used description logic (OWL) to formally describe design patterns, 
for details see:

Dietrich, J., Elgar, C.: Towards a Web of Patterns. Journal of Web Semantics, 
Volume 5 , Issue 2 (June 2007), pp 108-116.
Dietrich, J., Elgar, C.: A formal Description of Design Patterns using OWL. 
Proceedings of the 16th Australian Conference on Software Engineering 
(ASWEC2005), IEEE Computer Society, 2005.
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), pp 2183-2193, 2008.

check also Amnon Eden's work 
(http://www.essex.ac.uk/csee/staff/profile.aspx?ID=1566).

Cheers, Jens



On 25/04/2013, at 7:22 AM, Jake Miller 
<revolution AT gmail.com>
 wrote:

> Hi, folks,
> 
> I am curious about the state of patterns theory, and what academic work 
> exists on theoretical underpinnings of patterns. Obviously, there is 
> Alexander (and I'm not sure whether any of this would be in Notes on the 
> Synthesis of Form), but Timeless Way isn't very academic. I'm particularly 
> interested in any work which might have tied patterns into topics such as: 
> organizational learning, codification of knowledge, knowledge transfer, 
> causal maps, cognitive mental maps, organizational culture, anything from 
> cognitive psychology such as categorization theory and taxonomies. I would 
> appreciate any papers or other references you can send to me! 
> 
> (And, hello, all you PLoP '09 attendees!)
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Jake Miller
> PhD Candidate, Management
> LeBow College of Business
> Drexel University
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