Internet Gateways

Continuing the Information Skills Tutorial, I've learned about internet gateways. Did a search on one of them and found:

The effects of design pattern application on metric scores
Author(s): Brian Huston;
Abstract: One method suggested for improving software quality has been that of collecting metric scores for a given design, and refactoring in response to what are deemed to be unsatisfactory metric values. More recently, the usage of design patterns has been recommended to promote adaptable designs, so reducing maintenance effort. These two approaches are therefore observed to effectively have the same general aim. The question then arises as to whether design metrics and design patterns are always compatible, and where this is not found to be the case whether the metric, the pattern or both are anomalous. Methods of analysis are presented which demonstrate the effects of applying various patterns on certain metric scores, the initial conclusion being that the two approaches are indeed mainly congruent. Notes: CISTI electronic repository
Citation: Journal of Systems and Software, Vol 58, No. 3, pp 261 - 269, September 15, 2001
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Date: September 15, 2001
Document Type: Electronic source

Also discovered the term "deep web" - not yet sure how useful this will be.