… About the Authors This book has been written by the award winning team responsible for
the first POSA volume" A System of Patterns", joined in this volume by Douglas C. Schmidt from …

From the early days of computing, these abstractions included both language and platform
technologies. For example, early programming languages, such as assembly and Fortran, …

TERESA BERASI in terms of low-level programming language elements, but in higher-order
abstractions [1, 5, 7, 10]. What is new is that people are working hard to systematically …

Prompt engineering is an increasingly important skill set needed to converse effectively with
large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT. Prompts are instructions given to an LLM …

COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM October 1997/Vol. 40, No. 10 33 to understand and maintain
existing software. The stable interfaces provided by frameworks enhance reusability by …

This chapter presents design techniques for software engineering, in the form of prompt
patterns, to solve common problems that arise when using large language models (LLMs) to …

Many real-time application domains can benefit from flexible and open distributed
architectures, such as those defined by the CORBA specification. CORBA is an architecture for …

Secure and scalable data sharing is essential for collaborative clinical decision making.
Conventional clinical data efforts are often siloed, however, which creates barriers to efficient …

Despite dramatic increases in network and host performance, it remains difficult to design,
implement, and reuse communication software for complex distributed systems. Examples of …

Traffic accidents are one of the leading causes of fatalities in the US. An important indicator
of survival rates after an accident is the time between the accident and when emergency …