Generic Engineering A Paradigm for Software Reuse

Larry Latour
University of Maine
Department of Computer Science
Orono, ME., 04469

Abstract:

• Introduction
• Recent History
• Methodology
  • The 3Cs Model
  • Separation of Concerns and Genericity
    • Genericity of Concept
    • Context Binding Time
    • Genericity of Content
  • The Instantiation of System Architectures
• A Quick Sort Generic Architecture
  • The Control Algorithm as Content
  • The Partition Concept as Contentual Context
  • Alternate Implementations of the Sort Concept
  • Complete and Partial Instantiation
  • The Sort Content as a Generic Architecture
• Cohesion/Coupling in Reuse Engineered Components
• Complex Generic Architectures
• Summary and Ongoing Work
• Acknowledgements
• References
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