Implementing Application Frameworks

MOHAMED E. FAYAD, PhD, is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Nebraska, a columnist for Communications of the ACM, lead author of Wiley's book Transition to Object-Oriented Software Development, guest editor for six different theme issues, and a former editor-in-chief of IEEE Computer Society Press. He is a pioneer and expert in object-oriented software engineering. DOUGLAS C. SCHMIDT, PhD, is a professor of computer science at Washington University and consults for Lucent Technologies. He is a pioneer in the field of telecommunications patterns and frameworks. RALPH E. JOHNSON, PhD, is a member of the famed "Gang of Four" and a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

BUSINESS FRAMEWORKS (M. Fayad). Domain Framework for Sales Promotions (A. Dalebout, et al.). A Reflective and Repository-Based Framework (M. Devos & M. Tilman). ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND AGENT APPLICATION FRAMEWORKS (M. Fayad). Speech Recognition Framework (S. Srinivasan & J. Vergo). Neural Network Components (F. Beckenkamp & W. Pree). A Framework for Agent Systems (E. Kendall, et al.). A Model for Reusable Agent Systems (D. Brugali & K. Sycara). Experimentation with an Agent-Oriented Platform in JAVA (P. Marcenac & R. Courdier). SPECIALIZED TOOL FRAMEWORKS (M. Fayad). CSP++: A Framework for Executable Specifications (W. Gardner & M. Serra). Applying Inheritance beyond Class-Based Languages (G. Banavar & G. Lindstrom). Luthier: Building Framework-Visualization Tools (M. Campo & R. Price). Scalable Architecture for Reliable, High-Volume Datafeed Handlers (R. Kannan). LANGUAGE-SPECIFIC FRAMEWORKS (M. Fayad). Hierarchical and Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Systems (D. Brugali). Modeling Collections of Changing Interdependent Objects (A. Ahmed, et al.). Oberon with Gadgets: A Simple Component Framework (J. Gutknecht & M. Franz). Inheritance Management and Method Dispatch Framework (W. Holst & D. Szafron). Constraint Satisfaction Problems Framework (P. Roy, et al.). Developing Frameworks to Support Design Reuse (H. Erdogmus & O. Tanir). Language Support for Application Framework Design (G. Hedin & J. Knudsen). SYSTEM APPLICATION FRAMEWORKS (M. Fayad). Tigger: A Framework Supporting Distributed and Persistent Objects (V. Cahill). The Deja Vu Scheduling Class Library (J. Dorn). A Framework for Graphics Recognition (L. Wenyin & D. Dori). A JavaBeans Framework for Cryptographic Protocols (P. Nikander & J. Parssinen). Dynamic Database Instance Framework (D. Janello, et al.). Compound User Interfaces Framework (C. Szyperski & C. Pfister). EXPERIENCES IN APPLICATION FRAMEWORKS (M. Fayad). Framework Developing Using Patterns (B. Woolf). Experiences with the Semantic Graphics Framework (A. Rosel & K. Erni). Enterprise Model-Based Framework (J. Greenfield & A. Chatterjee). Appendices. Index.