Within the software community, the interest on design patterns have been growing at a phenomenal pace. There have been numerous publications describing various design patterns for solving many different problems. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion and understanding among software practitioners, who have successfully applied design patterns in developing commercial, or industrial software. The ultimate objective is to capture and articulate knowledge, experience and lessons learned in applying design patterns in a wide variety of application domains.

The focus of this workshop will be on application of existing and published design patterns, rather than introduction of new ones. Patterns that failed to achieve their objectives (anti-patterns) will also be of interest. Additionally, the workshop will focus on interesting and innovative idioms in Ada-95. Presentations describing implementations of design patterns in Ada95 will be of special interest.

Requirements for Attendance

Potential participants will be asked to submit a position paper describing their experiences using design patterns and/or Ada95 idioms in actual software development work. The related work should be in the context of commercial or industrial products, i.e. not research or prototype work. The position paper should be about 500 words.   Submissions should be made by electronic mail to one of the workshop coordinators. The text may be RTF, postscript, or PDF formats. The deadline for submission of position papers is Friday October 16, 1998.

Criteria for participant selection

Participant selection will based primarily on the strength of the submitted position papers. The majority of the participants will be selected based on their knowledge, experience and potential for making valuable contributions to the workshop. The need to achieve a balance across different types of problems and varied application domains will be a factor in participant selection. In addition to the regular participants, the co-ordinators will invite a number of experts to participate in the workshop.  Space permitting, one or two stand-by spots may be available for last minute participation; please contact the workshop co-ordinators for details.

Results

The results of the workshop will be presented in a conference session Thursday at 11:00 AM, and will also be published through SigAda (webpage and/or the news letter, Ada Letters).

Co-ordinators

Dr. Shan Barkataki, California State University Northridge and Litton Data Systems shan@csun.edu or sbarkataki@vines.littondsd.com
Patricia Dousette, Litton Data Systems, Agoura Hills, CA  Pdousett@vines.littondsd.com

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