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Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute to Host 13th Annual International Software Product Line Conference

Posted on: Thursday, 9 July 2009, 12:52 CDT

PITTSBURGH, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) will host the 13th Annual International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2009) on August 24-28, 2009 in San Francisco, California. SPLC is the premier forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss current and emerging trends in software product lines.

"Now more than ever, organizations need the benefits that software product lines deliver," said Linda Northrop, director of the Research, Technology, and System Solutions Program at the SEI. "SPLC 2009 offers individuals and organizations the opportunity to hear and learn how industry leaders exploit software product lines to save costs and achieve competitive advantage."

Product line approaches to system development apply practices, processes, technology, and tools to achieve strategic, planned reuse of technical and business artifacts. Effectively using software product lines improves time to market, cost, productivity, and quality. They also enable rapid market entry and flexible response, and simplify software maintenance and enhancement.

This year's program includes presentations on current research, experience reports from industry, and product line workshops, tutorials, and tool demonstrations. Conference attendees will have several opportunities to actively participate in sessions that will explore ideas for future directions in the field of software product lines. In addition, three internationally recognized leaders in the field of software engineering will deliver keynote addresses:

• Richard P. Gabriel, distinguished engineer at IBM Research. Gabriel has looked into the architecture, design, and implementation of extraordinarily large, self-sustaining systems. Gabriel has also been a key contributor to the SEI's research study on ultra-large-scale systems.
• Jacob G. Refstrup, distinguished technologist at Hewlett-Packard's Imaging and Printing Group. Refstrup is the lead architect for the Owen software product line architecture and has spent the past 10 years contributing to the Owen architecture, processes, tools, and code base.
• Dr. Kyo Chul Kang, professor at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Korea. Kang originated and developed feature-oriented domain analysis (FODA), the most widely used method for representing and analyzing features of applications in a domain. FODA is particularly relevant to product line practice because it enables the systematic discovery and exploitation of commonality and variation across a set of products.

SPLC 2009 will also serve as a forum to induct members into the Software Product Lines Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame serves as a way to recognize distinguished members of the software product line community as voted on by their peers. Past recipients include Bosch Group; Cummins, Inc.; Ericsson AXE; Nokia; and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.

About the SEI

Since 1984, the Carnegie Mellon(R) Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has served the nation as a federally funded research and development center. The SEI staff has advanced software engineering principles and practices and has served as a national resource in software engineering, computer security, and process improvement. As part of Carnegie Mellon University, which is well known for its highly rated programs in computer science and engineering, the SEI operates at the leading edge of technical innovation.

SOURCE Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute

Source: PR Newswire

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