BCS Object-Oriented Programming and Systems Specialist Group
6.30 pm Wednesday 3rd November 1999
IBM Centre South Bank
76 Upper Ground, London SE1
(next to the National Theatre)
Admission Free - No pre-registration required
OOPS-135
Current Trends in Research (4)
Brian Huston, Southampton Institute of Technology
Greg Law, City University
This meeting will follow the same format successfully pioneered in our
July 1995 and November 1996,1997 and 1998 meetings. It will consist of
shorter talks by researchers undertaking new and exciting work in the
field of object technology.
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The relation between OO design metrics and design patterns
Brian Huston, Southampton Institute of Technology
The application of design metrics is intended to give early feedback on
software design quality, and to suggest remedial action. However, both
theoretical and empirical attempts at metric validation have not so far
proved conclusive.
Given that design patterns are also intended to improve the structure of
software, a framework has been developed to establish whether the scores
for a given metric can be shown to favour a selected pattern over its
corresponding antipattern form.
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GO - Genuine Componentisation of the Operating System
Greg Law, City University
The GO project investigates construction of an operating system using
modern and novel software engineering techniques. GO starts with a 'clean
sheet' - i.e. no consideration for backwards compatibility.
Component Based OSs aim to bring the benefits of object orientation
enjoyed by applications to operating systems. If successful, systems
developers, application developers and users will all benefit. OS
designers will benefit from software engineering techniques such as
object orientation & exceptions, just as application developers have in
the last decade. Application developers should benefit from OS services
and abstractions more appropriate for modern software engineering. Users
will benefit from increased stability, performance and flexibility.
OOPS Meetings Programme Committee
Brian Saxby, Kingston University [[log in to unmask]];
Hedley Apperly, Princeton Softech [[log in to unmask]]
Immo Huneke, Logica [[log in to unmask]]
OOPS Meetings Schedule - http://www.bcs.org.uk/siggroup/oops.htm
6.30pm Wednesday 1st December 1999
OOPS136: Object Technology at the Open Frontier
David Faure, MandrakeSoft
Michael Meeks, Cambridge University
(See above WWW pages for regional programmes)
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