Software Architecture
University Club
University of California, Irvine
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Software architectures shift the focus of developers from lines-of-code to coarser-grained architectural elements and their interconnection structure. This talk will provide an introduction to software architecture: its elements and concepts, architecture description languages, styles, and domain-specific software architectures. A guiding perspective for the presentation will be supporting evolution of software products over an extended period of time.
Biography: Richard N. Taylor received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1980. He is a Professor with the Department of Information and Computer Science, University of California at Irvine, where he has been since 1982. He is a principal investigator on one of DARPA's evolutionary design of complex systems (EDCS) projects. His research interests are centered on software architectures, user interface software, workflow and process technologies, and hypermedia.
Professor Taylor is the Director of the Irvine Research Unit in Software (IRUS). He was a 1985 recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Chairman for ACM's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, SIGSOFT (1989 - 1993), Program Co-Chair of the 1997 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 97), and is an ACM Fellow.
Bringing Software Architecture into the Software Development Process
David Rosenblum,
Associate Professor,
Information and Computer Science,
Irvine Research Unit in Software(IRUS),
UC Irvine
dsr@ics.uci.edu
Over the last few years there has been increasing recognition that software architecture is an important and distinct characteristic of software that merits its own specialized modeling languages and development tools. Researchers in software architecture have defined a number of highly expressive formal languages that can support powerful analyses of architectural models. However, there has been little effort to date on integrating these languages and tools with the software development processes used by mainstream practitioners. In this talk I will first discuss the proper role of architecture within the broader context of the software development lifecycle, and then I will describe recent work on integrating architectural description languages (ADLs) with the Unified Modeling Language (UML). UML is gaining wide acceptance in industry because of its rich support for object-oriented analysis and design processes, but it lacks support for architectural modeling and analysis. The work I will describe involves extending UML to support architectural modeling with C2 and Wright, two of the most widely-studied architecture description languages. The extensions are defined in a way that allows them to be used in conjunction with existing UML tools.
Biography: David S. Rosenblum is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. His research interests are centered on the design and validation of distributed component-based software. He received a PhD in 1988 from Stanford University, and from 1988 to 1996 he was a Research Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He is the author of numerous technical papers on a variety of topics in software engineering. He is a member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE.
Coordinator:
Debra A Brodbeck,
Technical Relations Director,
IRUS,
UC Irvine
brodbeck@ics.uci.edu
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Next Meeting:
Date: Friday, July 31, 1998
Topic: The Journey to Software Process Maturity
Speakers: George Yamamura, The Boeing Company
Gary Wigle, The Boeing Company
Coordinator: Karen Chan, The Boeing Company, karen.k.chan@boeing.com
The Irvine Research Unit in Software wishes to thank its corporate sponsors:
Sustaining:
Supporting:
Continuus Software Corporation * Hewlett Packard * Printronix, Inc.
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