SEIS++: a pattern language for seismic tools construction and integration

Predominant industrial practice has evolved from general-purpose class libraries to domain-specific frameworks" and design patterns. Both of them are a means to achieve large-scale reuse by capturing successful software development strategies within a particular context. Design patterns focus on reuse of recurring architectural design themes and mainly consist of predefined design structures that can be used as building blocks to compose the architecture of software system. Together the patterns in a specific domain form a pattern language, which can be used to approach a certain class of problems in the application domain. In this paper, we propose a pattern language SEIS++, a set of design patterns, for seismic tool construction and integration in oil and gas exploration domain. The language uses Tools and Materials as the new design conception to guide domain-specific application development, and to enhance software architecture reusability.