Hi,

In today’s class I announced a few things.

Course plan:
* Today: Distributed Objects (1)
* Friday Nov 27: Distributed Objects (2). Afternoon Lab: No New Assignments, but I will be there for your last Lab assignment.
* Monday Nov 30: Design Patterns/ Last Lab deadline.

– The following two lectures will not be included in the final exam. But I think they may fit your interests.

* Wednesday Dec 2: Reasoning about Multi-Agent Systems (It is about the research I did in my PhD. I think it might be more interesting than the course itself. There is also a relation to the course from the perspective of agents. ) / Last lecture assignment deadline (I will release the assignment today).
* Friday Dec 5: A Review Of This Course (I will review the important stuff we’ve discussed in the past. It might be helpful for you to prepare the final exam. And besides, there will be one last interesting thing I want  to show to you.) /Last Chance to ask me questions in person, as I will travel to Liverpool afterwords.

* Exam Time: 9am-11:30am December 10, 2009
* Location: NH125

Please do come to the next Wednesday’s class. The head of the department will come to let you do an evaluation (filling some forms) on this course, while I will not present in the class. The time slot is:

• 9:15-9:30 am on Wednesday, December 2ed.

After that, we will start an interesting talk on my research.

When I arrived in the classroom on time, there were few students, possibly due to the rain. But I was glad that most of you showed up eventually. There seems to be a separation between Canadian students and the Chinese Students.  So from the next class on, we use a mixture of seats policy:
The ones come after the fourth person should sit in the different side of the aisle from he or she did in the previous class. You are encouraged to know each other better, especially between Canadian girls and Chinese boys. (I omitted the other important option because there is no Chinese girls in the class. The Canadian boys could complain to the head or the admission manager of the dept.)

Yours,

Ji

• Lecture 17: Multiple Inheritance 2009/10/28
• Lecture 18: Polymorphism and Software Reuse2009/10/30
  
• Lecture 19: Polymorphism – Overloading 2009/11/02
• Lecture 20: Polymorphism – Overriding 2009/11/04 
• Lecture 21: Polymorphism – The Polymorphic Variable2009/11/06
• Lecture 22: Polymorphism – Generics 2009/11/09
• Lecture 23: Container Classes 2009/11/13

• Lecture 13: Case Study: The Solitaire Game 2009/10/14
• Lecture 14: Subclasses and Subtypes 2009/10/16
• Lecture 15: Static and Dynamic Behavior 2009/10/19
  • Mid-term exam 2009/10/23
• Lecture 16: Implications of Substitution 2009/10/26

I like this idea: Open and Free Access to high quality scientific work (papers, slides, videos etc). This is a good try. I think to make it even better, we should introduce Web2.0 elements to make it more interactive.

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from MYV to Moshe Vardi
date Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:29 PM
subject [UAI] FIVE YEARS OF LOGICAL METHODS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
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Dear Colleague:

We would like to bring the community up to date on the journal

Logical Methods in Computer Science
www.lmcs-online.org

We started this fully refereed, open access, free electronic journal in January 2005, intending to create a high-level platform for publications in all theoretical and practical areas in computer science involving logical methods, taken in a broad sense. We are now on Issue 3 of Volume 5 (there are four issues a year). So far, we have received more than 350 submissions of which we have published 162. In addition to individual submissions, our journal publishes special issues, e.g., of selected papers of high-level international conferences such as LICS, IJCAR, CAV, CSL, and RTA.

We are continuing actively to develop the journal. For example, we accept survey articles, and are developing `live’ surveys, which can be continually updated as knowledge progresses. In another direction, we are considering allowing authors to provide additional material of an expository nature, such as slides and videos, to enable them to interest a wider spectrum of readers in their contribution.

The journal is an overlay of CoRR, the computer science repository of arXiv. There are no fees for authors nor for readers. Every paper is refereed by two or more referees, and high standards are applied. The editorial board consists of about sixty top specialists in all areas of logic in computer science.

The journal is covered by Mathematical Reviews, the ISI Web of Knowledge, and the DBLP Database.

We welcome your comments and suggestions, and we seek your contributions! For more information please consult our web pages:

www.lmcs-online.org

Yours,

Editor-in-Chief: Dana S. Scott
Managing Editors: Benjamin C. Pierce
Gordon D. Plotkin
Moshe Y. Vardi
Executive Editors: Jiri Adamek
Stefan Milius

Lecture 12: Inheritance.

In this lecture, we discussed:

• The intuitive and practical meanings of inheritance
• The syntax used to describe inheritance and substitution
• Some of the various forms of inheritance
• The benefits and costs of inheritance

The lecture is canceled for the thanks-giving Monday (October 12, 2009). Have fun.

• Lecture 8-9: Classes and Methods 2009/09/30-10/02

We discussed the static, compile time representation of object-oriented programs.

• Lecture 10: Messages, Instances and Initialization. 2009/10/05

We discussed the dynamic, run time behavior of object-oriented programs.

• Lecture 11: A Case Study: Eight Queens 2009/10/07

We did a case study: solving Eight Queens problem in object-oriented approach.