An introduction to the theory of lists
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Logic of programming and calculi of discrete design
Refactoring object-oriented frameworks
Refactoring object-oriented frameworks
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Pattern languages of program design
Automatic code generation from design patterns
IBM Systems Journal
A refactoring tool for Smalltalk
Theory and Practice of Object Systems - Special issue object-oriented software evolution and re-engineering
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The Unified Modeling Language user guide
The object constraint language: precise modeling with UML
The object constraint language: precise modeling with UML
The Unified Modeling Language reference manual
The Unified Modeling Language reference manual
Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Software engineering
Precise Visual Specification of Design Patterns
ECCOP '98 Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Pattern-Oriented Framework Engineering Using FRED
ECOOP '98 Workshop ion on Object-Oriented Technology
A Formal Approach to Architectural Design Patterns
FME '96 Proceedings of the Third International Symposium of Formal Methods Europe on Industrial Benefit and Advances in Formal Methods
UMLAUT: An Extendible UML Transformation Framework
ASE '99 Proceedings of the 14th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
Design Recovery by Automated Search for Structural Design Patterns in Object-Oriented Software
WCRE '96 Proceedings of the 3rd Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE '96)
Practical analysis for refactoring
Practical analysis for refactoring
A formal approach to collaborations in the unified modeling language
UML'99 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on The unified modeling language: beyond the standard
ECOOP '02 Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming
Using UML Action Semantics for Executable Modeling and Beyond
CAiSE '01 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
REFLECTION '01 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Metalevel Architectures and Separation of Crosscutting Concerns
«UML» '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on The Unified Modeling Language, Modeling Languages, Concepts, and Tools
Instantiating and Detecting Design Patterns: Putting Bits and Pieces Together
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE international conference on Automated software engineering
Reusing Patterns through Design Refinement
ICSR '09 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Reuse: Formal Foundations of Reuse and Domain Engineering
Pattern tool support to guide interface design
INTERACT'11 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part II
Representing and applying design patterns: what is the problem?
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
On some properties of parameterized model application
ECMDA-FA'05 Proceedings of the First European conference on Model Driven Architecture: foundations and Applications
Reusing pattern solutions in modeling: a generic approach based on a role language
SLE'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Software Language Engineering
Understanding design patterns — what is the problem?
Software—Practice & Experience
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The Unified Modeling Language (UML) currently proposes a mechanism to model recurrent design structures: the parameterized collaborations. The main goal of this mechanism is to model the structure of Design Patterns. This is an interesting feature because it can help designers to point out pattern application without spending time with intricate design details. Moreover, it can also help designers to better document their systems and to manage their own design pattern library, which could be used in different systems or projects. However, from a tool perspective, the semantics associated to parameterized collaborations is still vague. To put it more precisely, the underlying representation of a design pattern and of its application, and the binding between these two levels is not exactly defined, and therefore, can be interpreted in different ways. This article has two purposes. First, we point out ambiguities and clarify some misunderstanding points concerning parameterized collaborations in the "official" UML literature. We also show the limits of this mechanism when effectively modeling design patterns. Second, we propose some workarounds for these limits and describe how a tool integrating this mechanism could help with the semi-automatic application of design patterns.