主催：NII 先端ソフトウェア工学国際研究センター（GRACEセンター）
http://grace-center.jp/
日時：2009年4月9日（木）10:00-11:00
場所：国立情報学研究所(NII) 12階会議室(1208,1210)
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Speaker：Professor Emeritus David Parnas, McMaster University
Title：
Multi-Dimensional Software Families: Document Defined Partitions of
a Set of Products
Abstract：
More than 30 years after it was proposed that a set of closely-related programs
would be easier to maintain than a set of independently developed programs,
the software industry is still struggling with the complex problem of making
updates to product lines made up of “almost alike” products.
This talk discusses 4 main topics:
* The advantages that accrue if a software product-line is a program
family.
* Why full exploitation of the program-family concept requires explicit
design effort. We must design for agility; it won’t just happen.
* Why full exploitation of the program family concept requires
partitioning a set of into families in more than one way.
* How precise (mathematical) documents can be used to characterize
families and subfamilies, thereby making it easier to maintain a
product line.
Biography:
Professor David Lorge Parnas received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering – Systems and Communications Sciences from
Carnegie Mellon University and honorary doctorates from the ETH in
Zurich,the Catholic University of Louvain, and the University of
Italian Switzerland in Lugano. Dr. Parnas is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the ACM and
the the IEEE. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and is
licensed as a Professional Engineer in Ontario.
Dave was the first winner of the Norbert Wiener Prize from Computing
Professionals for Social Responsibility. He has also received the FifF
prize from Forum Informatiker fur Frieden und Verantwortung in
Germany. He won an ACM “Best Paper” Award in 1979, two “Most
Influential Paper” awards from the International Conference on
Software Engineering, the 1998 ACM SIGSOFT “Outstanding Research
Award”, the IEEE CS’s “Practical Visionary Award” given in
honor of the late Dr.Harlan Mills, and the “Component and Object
Technology” Award presented at TOOLS99.
Recently, Parnas was proud to share the IEEE Computer Society’s
sixtieth anniversary (one-time) award with Professor Maurice Wilkes of
Cambridge University.
Parnas is the author of more than 250 papers and reports. Many of his
papers have been repeatedly republished and some are considered
classics. A collection of his papers can be found in: Hoffman, D.M.,
Weiss, D.M. (eds.), “Software Fundamentals: Collected Papers by David
L. Parnas”, Addison-Wesley, 2001, 664 pgs., ISBN 0-201-70369-6.
