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Arcadia Project Overview

The Arcadia project began work as a funded, informal consortium in the fall of 1987. It is a research project examining issues in two primary areas. First, those issues necessary to create an evolvable software development environment based on abstract interfaces to pro-active components, and second, issues associated with techniques, tools, and processes for the formal definition, analysis, evaluation, and automation of software processes and products.

The project is organized into several areas of study: environment architectures and interoperability mechanisms, user interfaces, hypermedia, process (modeling, programming, and execution), object management, measurement and evaluation, language processing, configuration management, and analysis and testing. The analysis area is further subdivided into concurrency analysis, dependence and flow analysis, and analysis tool infrastructure.

Prototypes are used to validate approaches taken in the individual areas as well as to investigate technical interactions between areas.

The Arcadia consortium is comprised of researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI), the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (UMass), the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU), and Purdue University.

See the Arcadia philosophy for effective software engineering environments.

The Arcadia Project <arcadia-www@ics.uci.edu>
Last modified: Wed Feb 17 14:23:37 1995