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1. Architecture
2. Roles and Analysis
3. People and Process
4. Domain Specific Techniques
5. OO Techniques
6. Non-OO Techniques

The remainder of this document contains the papers organized by Writers' Workshop sessions. Other PLoP activities are described on the program and the activities pages.

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1. Architecture

1.1 Pattern Language for Framework Construction

-- Shai Ben-Yehuda (shai@sela.co.il)

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1.2 Architecture Patterns for Business Systems

-- Lorraine L. Boyd (lorrie_boyd@mail.amsinc.com)

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1.3 Big Ball of Mud

-- Brian Foote (foote@cs.uiuc.edu) and Joseph Yoder (yoder@cs.uiuc.edu)

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1.4 Pattern Systems for Hypermedia

-- Alejandra Garrido (garrido@chip.cs.uiuc.edu), Gustavo Rossi (gustavo@sol.info.unlp.edu.ar) and Daniel Schwabe (schwabe@inf.puc-rio.br)

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1.5 A Data Flow Pattern Language

-- Dragos-Anton Manolescu (daman@ncsa.uiuc.edu)

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1.6 Archi-Patterns

-- Gerard Meszaros (gerard.meszaros@acm.org)

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1.7 A Pattern Language for Workflow Systems

-- Kyle Brown (kbrown@ksccary.com) and Gerard Meszaros (gerard.meszaros@acm.org)

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1.8 Client/Server Architectures for Business Information Systems

-- Klaus Renzel (Klaus.Renzel@sdm.de) and Wolfgang W. Keller (WolfgangWKeller@compuserve.com)

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2. Roles and Analysis

2.1 Patterns for GIS Application Design

-- F. Balaguer (fede@sol.info.unlp.edu.ar), S. Gordillo (gordillo@sol.info.unlp.edu.ar) and F. Das Neves (babel17@sol.info.unlp.edu.ar)

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2.2 The Role Object Pattern

-- Dirk Baumer (baeumer@takefive.ch), Dirk Riehle (riehle@acm.org), Wolf Siberski (daasb@rwg.de) and Martina Wulf (Martina.Wulf@ubs.ch)

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2.3 Specifications

-- Eric Evans (evans@acm.org) and Martin Fowler (fowler@acm.org)

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2.4 Dealing with Roles

-- Martin Fowler (fowler@acm.org)

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2.5 Dependent Demand -- A Business Pattern for Balancing Supply and Demand

-- Robert Haugen (linkage@interaccess.com)

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2.6 Application Security

-- Joseph Yoder (j-yoder@uiuc.edu) and Jeffrey Barcalow (barcalow@uiuc.edu)

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3. People and Process

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3.1 Patterns for Conducting Process Improvement

-- Brad Appleton (bradapp@enteract.com)

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3.2 cOOherentBPR- A pattern language to build agile organizations

-- Michael A. Beedle (beedlem@fti-consulting.com)

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3.3 Patterns for Generating Design Ideas

-- Charles Crowley (crowley@cs.unm.edu)

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3.4 Introducing Technology into the Workplace

-- David Delano (delanod@agcs.com) and Linda Rising (risingl@agcs.com)

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3.5 Organizational Patterns for Software Architecture

-- David Dikel (ddikel@aecorp.com), Christy Hermansen (christy@eidea.com), David Kane (dkane@aecorp.com) and Raphael Malveaux (raphael@eidea.com)

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3.6 Managing Change to Reusable Software

-- David Kane (dkane@aecorp.com), William Opdyke (wopdyke@lucent.com), David Dikel (ddikel@aecorp.com)

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3.7 Breaking Up Is Hard To Do - Patterns for Team Dispersion

-- Don S. Olson (olsond@agcs.com)

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3.8 Customer Interaction Patterns

-- Linda Rising (risingl@agcs.com)

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4. Domain Specific Techniques

4.1 The Reliable Hybrid Pattern - A Generalized Fault Tolerant Software Design Pattern

-- Fonda Daniels (fjdaniel@eos.ncsu.edu), Kalhee Kim (kkim1@eos.ncsu.edu) and Mladen A. Vouk (vouk@csc.ncsu.edu)

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4.2 Cascade

-- Ted Foster (ted@clas-sc.demon.co.uk) and Liping Zhao (liping@cs.rmit.edu.au)

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4.3 The Layered Agent Pattern Language

-- Elizabeth A. Kendall (kendall@rmit.edu.au), Chirag V. Pathak, P.V. Mural Krishna, C. B. Suresh

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4.4 Capsule

-- Robert C. Martin (rmartin@oma.com)

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4.5 Proactor: An Object Behavioral Pattern for Demultiplexing and Dispatching Handlers for Asynchronous Events

-- Irfan Pyarali (irfan@cs.wustl.edu), Tim Harrison (harrison@cs.wustl.edu), Douglas C. Schmidt (schmidt@cs.wustl.edu) and Thomas D. Jordan (Thomas_Jordan@DeluxeData.com)

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4.6 Thread-Specific Storage: An Object Behavioral Pattern for Efficiently Accessing per-Thread State

-- Douglas C. Schmidt (schmidt@cs.wustl.edu), Timothy H. Harrison (harrison@cs.wustl.edu) and Nat Pryce (np2@doc.ic.ac.uk, )

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4.7 Branch Removal - A Pattern for Code Efficiency

-- Joseph W. Seda (jseda@insight-consulting.com)

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4.8 Driver Duty Constructor

-- Liping Zhao (liping@cs.rmit.edu.au) and Ted Foster (ted@class-sc.demon.co.uk)

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5. OO Techniques

5.1 Assembler

-- F. Balaguer (fede@sol.info.unlp.edu.ar), G. Dombiak (gaston@sol.info.unlp.edu.ar)

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5.2 Peppery Patterns

-- Ian Chai (chai@uiuc.edu)

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5.3 The Dynamic Template Pattern

-- Fernando D. Lyardet (fer@sol.info.unlp.edu.ar)

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5.4 Private Interface

-- James Newkirk (newkirk@oma.com)

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5.5 Arguments and Results

-- James Noble (kjx@mri.mq.edu.au)

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5.6 State Action Mapper

-- Gunther Palfinger (gp@sdm.de)

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5.7 Distributed Proxy: A Design Pattern for Distributed Object Communication

-- Antonio RitoSilva (Rito.Silva@inesc.pt), Francisco Assis Rosa (fjar@albertina.inesc.pt) and Teresa Goncalves (tsg@albertina.inesc.pt)

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5.8 The Abstract Class Pattern

-- Bobby Woolf (bwoolf@ksccary.com)

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6. Non-OO Techniques

6.1 Locality of Reference

-- Manish Bhatt (mbhatt@phoenix.calpoly.edu)

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6.2 The Contract Pattern

-- Michel de Champlain (michel@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz)

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6.3 Scaffolding with Smalltalk

-- Jim Doble (jdoble@ats-forest.com) and Ken Auer (kauer@rolemodelsoft.com)

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6.4 Patterns of Input Processing Software

-- Neil B. Harrison (nbharrison@lucent.com)

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6.5 Lock Server

-- Robert Hirschfeld (hirschfeld@rz.tu-ilmenau.de) and Jeff Eastman (jeff@windwardsolutions.com)

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6.6 Two Complementary Patterns To Build Multi-Expert Systems

-- Philippe Lalanda (lalanda@thomson-lcr.fr)

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6.7 Roundabout, A Pattern Language for Recursive Programming

-- Eugene Wallingford (wallingf@cs.uni.edu)

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6.8 Design Patterns in Garbage Collection

-- Stuart A. Yeates (stuart@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz) and Michel de Champlain (michel@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz)

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