Rudiger G.K. Loos – författare

ThisvolumecontainscontributedpapersfromparticipantsintheGenericP- gramming Seminar held 27 April-1May1998atthDagstuhl e Conference CenterinWadern,Germany. Genericprogrammingisasub-disciplineofcomputersciencethatdealswith ?nding abstract representations of e?cient algorithms, data structures, and other software concepts, and with their systematic organization. The goal of genericprogrammingistoexpressalgorithmsanddatastructuresinabroadly adaptable,interoperableformthatallowstheirdirectuseinsoftwareconstr- tion. Amongthemostobviousachievementsofthisrelativelynewprogramming paradigmarenewlibrariesofsoftwarecomponents,bothinareasoffundam- talandbroadlyusedalgorithmsanddatastructures-theStandardTemplate Library-andinmorespecializedareassuchascomputeralgebra,graphtheory, and computational geometry. As useful as such components may be, however, theyareprobablylessimportantthantheoverallgenericprogrammingmeth- ologybeingdeveloped. Thepaperscollectedherearereportsfromthe?eldonthe majorproblemsandemergingsolutionsofgenericprogrammingmethodology. June2000 MehdiJazayeri Rudige .. rLoos DavidMusser VI Organization Organization The Generic Programming Seminar was held 27 April-1May 1998 at the ConferenceCenteroftheSchlossDagstuhl,locatedinWadern,Germany(near Saarbruc .. ken). Therewerefortynineattendeesfromtencountries. Theformal programofthemeetingincludedthirtysevenlectures,apanelsessiononsoftware librarystandardization,andadiscussionofopenproblemsandprojects. Many informaldiscussionsalsotookplace,oneofthemanybene?tsoftheDagstuhl setting. The traditional Dagstuhl social event was at this meeting a Baroque concertheldinthechapeloftheSchloss. Organizers MehdiJazayeri TechnicalUniversityofVienna R.. udigerLoos Tubingen .. University DavidMusser RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute AlexanderStepanov SGI Attendees DavidAbrahams MarkoftheUnicorn,Inc. GiuseppeAttardi UniversityofPisa MattAustern SGI UlrichBreymann HochschuleBremen StephenCerniglia RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute GeorgeCollins UniversityofDelaware JamesCrotinger LosAlamosNationalLab KrzysztofCzarnecki Daimler-Benz JamesDehnert SGI AngelDiaz IBMWatsonResearchCenter AxelDold UlmUniversity MatthewDwyer KansasStateUniversity UlrichEisenecker FachhochschuleHeidelberg HolgerGast Tubingen .. University RobertGluc .. k CopenhagenUniversity FriedrichvonHenke UniversityofUlm HoonHong NorthCarolinaStateUniversity MehdiJazayeri TechnicalUniversityofVienna JohannJeuring UtrechtUniversity NicolaiJosuttis Bredex ErichKaltofen NorthCarolinaState UllrichKothe .. RostockUniversity Organization VII UweKreppel Tubingen .. University WolfgangKuc .. hlin Tubingen .. University DietmarKuhl .. KonstanzUniversity GaryLeavens IowaStateUniversity KarlLieberherr NortheasternUniversity R.. udigerLoos Tubingen .. University KurtMehlhorn MPI,Saarbruc .. kenUniversity DavidMusser RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute StefanN.. aher HalleUniversity OscarNierstrasz BernUniversity MartinOdersky UniversityofSouthAustralia WilliamOgden OhioStateUniversity ArturoSanchez-Ruiz UniversityofCentralVenezuela StefanSchirra Saarbruc .. kenUniversity WolfgangSchreiner RISC-Linz SibylleSchupp RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute ChristophSchwarzweller Tubingen .. University MuraliSitaraman W. VirginiaUniversity GeorgTrausmuth TechnicalUniversityofVienna DavidVandevoorde Hewlett-Packard ToddVeldhuizen UniversityofWaterloo BruceWeide OhioStateUniversity KarstenWeihe KonstanzUniversity RolandWeiss Tubingen .. University ReinhardWilhelm Saarbruc .. kenUniversity AlexandreZamulin RussianAcademyofSciences,Novosibirsk WolfZimmermann KarlsruheUniversity TableofContents FoundationsandMethodologyComparisons FundamentalsofGenericProgramming...1 JamesC.Dehnert,AlexanderStepanov(SiliconGraphics,Inc. ) RequirementOrientedProgramming ...12 DavidMusser,SibylleSchupp(RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute), RudigerLoos(UniversityofTubingen) .. GenerativeProgrammingandActiveLibraries...