@INPROCEEDINGS{Gaffar05-IWDPTP-SemanticsDesignPattern,
  author = {Ashraf Gaffar and Naouel Moha},
  month = {September},
  date = {September 25-30},
  location = {Budapest, Hungary},
  year = 2005,
  title = {Semantics of a Pattern System},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the STEP International Workshop on Design Pattern Theory and Practice (IWDPTP05)},
  publisher = {},
  editor = {Giuliano Antoniol and Yann-Ga{\"e}l Gu{\'e}h{\'e}neuc},
  language = {english},
  kind = {MIADR},
  abstract = {The wide acceptance of the “Design Patterns”
            has encouraged experts in other software domains to
            formulate their experience into pattern format hoping
            to make it readily reused by developers. We now have
            numerous pattern collections covering all aspects of
            software development from analysis to deployment and
            refactoring. But developers can be overwhelmed by
            this large number and the lack of coordination and in
            consistencies among them. These patterns have many
            similarities and redundancies which may contribute to
            misunderstanding and wrong reuse. Some research has
            proposed standards to writing patterns but they
            were rarely used because each pattern author prefers
            to use their own creativity which is often a good
            thing. We propose another approach to address this
            problem. In each specific software domain, we collect
            and pre-process existing patterns by defining, detecting
            and removing some kinds of redundancies between
            them. The result is a smaller collection of patterns
            from different sources that have fewer redundancies
            which reduces confusion and promotes the proper reuse.}
}