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   Dear Environmentalists,

   As  promised,  a  separate announcement for this weeks second speaker.
   This  Friday,  Ira Baxter will tell us about the work done at Semantic
   Designs to arrive at the Design Maintenance System.

   Please note that this talk is on a Friday, and that it is at 2 PM.

   This announcement can be found at <http://www.cwi.nl/~pem>

    The Design Maintenance System, Scale, and application to Refactoring

   Date:    24.09.99
   Time:    14:00
   Venue:   M2.80, CWI
   Speaker: Ira Baxter (Semantic Designs)
   Title:   The Design Maintenance System, Scale, and application to Refactorin
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   Software modification and maintenance account for some 80% of the cost
   of  a software system over its lifetime. Much of that cost is invested
   in  rediscovery  of  lost design information, and carrying out complex
   changes.  The  Design  Maintenance  System  is  a  vision and a set of
   evolving  tools  for  automating change to software. The DMS vision is
   based   on   capturing   DMS's   unique  model  of  designs  based  on
   transformational  synthesis,  and reusing domain specific knowledge in
   the   form  of  correctness  preserving  program  transformations  and
   generators,  essentially composed sets of such transformations. DMS is
   designed  to  handle  large scale codes (millions of lines) as well as
   carrying out domain-specific synthesis.

   This  talk  will  sketch  the DMS vision, discuss how the DMS model of
   design  differs  fundamentally from conventional software designs, and
   show  what is meant by DMS domains. We will describe the current state
   of DMS (the DMS reengineering toolkit), including both Java and IBM VS
   COBOL II domains and transformations.

   Lastly,  we will examine a few possible applications of DMS, including
   working  automated  code  clone  detection/removal  on  scale, and the
   potential  of  automated  refactoring of large class frameworks, which
   should be of special interest to the OO community.
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   and  discussion  of  new  ideas,  ongoing and finished work. A typical
   meeting  addresses  a subject in the area of programming environments,
   program  generation, algebraic specification, term rewriting, parsing,
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   taking  longer  than 45 minutes are interrupted by a coffeebreak. Most
   Thursdays,  a  meeting is held which starts at 10:00 am. in one of the
   rooms at CWI/WINS. Exceptionally, dates or times may change.

   The    program    of    the    meetings    is    available   on   WWW:
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