@TechReport{	  it:1999-006,
  author	= {Andreas Gustavsson and Mattias Ersson},
  title		= {Formalizing the Intent of Design Patterns. An Approach
		  Towards a Solution to the Indexing Problem},
  institution	= {Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University},
  department	= {Division of Computer Systems},
  year		= {1999},
  number	= {1999-006},
  month		= jul,
  abstract	= {The \emph{intent} section of a pattern description is
		  written in easily understood, natural language, which
		  unfortunately has the drawback of being too imprecise and
		  unstructured for certain applications of the \emph{intent}
		  section.
		  
		  We will in this essay try to formalize the intent section
		  of a pattern description. Our aim will be to find a
		  structure within the \emph{intent} description that will
		  reduce ambiguities and at the same time make the
		  classification of patterns easier. The classifications of
		  patterns addresses the problem of ``labeling'' patterns
		  into one of the following categories: Creational,
		  Structural or Behavioural. Succeeding in classifying
		  patterns by the \emph{intent} does require that enough
		  information for doing so is contained in the one to two
		  sentences that make up the \emph{intent}. Whether this is
		  the case or not will be discussed in the essay.
		  
		  A formalized \emph{intent} section of a pattern description
		  can not replace the understandability of the natural
		  language description but can be thought of as a complement
		  to the standard structure to patterns today.}
}