Implementing protocols via declarative event patterns.

This paper introduces declarative event patterns (DEPs) as a means to implement protocols while improving their traceability, comprehensibility, and maintainability. DEPs are descriptions of sequences of events in the execution of a system that include the ability to recognize properly nested event...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Software engineering notes. 29, 6 (2004).
Main Author:	Walker, Robert J.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Software. Software engineering. Coding tools and techniques. Distribution, Maintenance, and Enhancement. Computing methodologies. Pattern recognition. Implementation. Computing Milieux. Management of computing and information systems. Software management. Software development. Software selection. Design. Human factors. Languages. Aspect oriented programming. Comprehensibility/maintainability. Context-free grammars. Context-sensitive join points. Event patterns. Instrumentation. Parsing. Traceability.