Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming I

The Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming subline aims to publish papers on patterns and pattern languages as applied to software design, development, and use, throughout all phases of the software life cycle, from requirements and design to im

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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James Noble Ralph Johnson (Eds.)

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Editors-in-Chief James Noble Victoria University of Wellington School of Engineering and Computer Science Wellington 6140, New Zealand E-mail: [email protected] Ralph Johnson Siebel Center for Computer Science 201 North Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801, USA E-mail: [email protected] Managing Editors Uwe Zdun Vienna University of Technology, Information Systems Institute Argentinierstrasse 8/184-1, 1040 Wien, Austria E-mail: [email protected] Eugene Wallingford University of Northern Iowa, Department of Computer Science Cedar Falls, IA 50613, USA E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2009942032 CR Subject Classification (1998): D.2, D.3, D.1, K.6, K.6.3 ISSN ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) 1869-6015 (Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming) 3-642-10831-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-642-10831-0 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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