[Colloq] Reminder: CCIS Talk Today @ 10:30am

[Diane Keys]

College of Computer and Information Science Colloquium
and Northeastern's Institute of Complex Scientific Software (ICSS)

presents:
Krzysztof Czarnecki
University of Waterloo

who will speak on:
Generative Software Development

Friday, September 3, 2004
10:30 a.m.
366 West Village H
Northeastern University

ABSTRACT

System family engineering seeks to exploit the commonalities among
systems from a given problem domain while managing the variabilities
among them in a systematic way. In system family engineering, new system
variants can be rapidly created based on a set of reusable assets (such
as a common architecture, components, models, etc.).

Generative software development aims at modeling and implementing system
families in such a way that a given system can be automatically 
generated
from a specification written in a textual or graphical domain-specific
language.

In this talk, I will give an overview of the generative software
development and explore its relationship to Software Factories and
Model Driven Development. Among others, I will present some recent work
on cardinality-based feature modeling and staged configuration using
feature models.

More information at 
http://www.swen.uwaterloo.ca/~kczarnec/gsdoverview.pdf

Bio:
Krzysztof Czarnecki is an Assistant Professor at the University
of Waterloo, Canada. Before coming to Waterloo, he spent 8 years
at DaimlerChrysler Research working on the practical applications
of generative programming. He is co-author of the book "Generative
Programming" (Addison-Wesley, 2000), which is regarded as founding work
of the area and is used as a graduate text at universities around the
world ,including at Northeastern University. He was General Chair of
the 2003 International Conference on Generative Programming and 
Component
Engineering (GPCE) and is an invited speaker for the UML Conference
in 2004.

Host: David H. Lorenz

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David H. Lorenz, Assistant Professor           (617) 373-2076 FAX 5121
College of Computer and Information Science,        lorenz at ccs.neu.edu
Northeastern University, Boston MA 02115   www.ccs.neu.edu/home/lorenz