PSiGene: A Pattern-Based Component Generator for Building Simulation

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.