PSiGene: A pattern-based component generator for building simulation
Martin Sch�tze, Jan Peter Riegel, Gerhard Zimmermann · Theory and Practice of Object Systems · 1999
Design patterns are used to document and communicate good, proven designs to other developers and thereby to support the development of complex applications. In this paper, we present a pattern based development approach which goes a step beyond the documentation aspect: starting from a formalized, domain-specific pattern catalog, we are able to generate software components from pattern-based models. This results, in conjunction with other components, in the automatic generation of domain- and application-specific, tailored, and optimized application frameworks. The sample application domain is building simulation. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.