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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Yacoub, Sherif M.
Pattern-oriented analysis and design: composing patterns to design software systems/Sherif M. Yacoub and Hany H. Ammar
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references references and index.
ISBN 0-201-77640-5
1. Computer software—Development. 2. Software patterns. I. Ammar, Hany Hussein. II. Title.
QA76.76.D47Y33 2003
005.1'2—dc21 2003052220
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To my mother Zienab Halawa, and the memory of my father Mohamed Yacoub To my sister Noha Yacoub and my brother Yasser Yacoub To my uncle Samir Halawa To my professors Hany Ammar and Ali Mili Sherif YacoubTo my dear mother Lila Awny, and the memory of my late father Hussein Ammar, To my wife Mona, my children Kareem, Taher, Hussein, Mariam, and Hoda, To my sisters Azza and Hala, and to my aunts Ragia and Samiha To the Engineering Faculty of the International Islamic University Malaysia, where the background on Design patterns caught my attention During my leave at IIUM In the spring of 1995 Hany Ammar