General talk about software patterns

["Joseph W. Yoder" <joe AT joeyoder.com>]

BTW, we also encourage people to submit research papers on patterns to 
the PLoP conferences.

I know there hasn't been too much on it so more would be welcomed.

--joe

On 4/25/2013 2:43 AM, Jens Dietrich wrote:
> 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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