The description and construction of large software systems is usually tackled almost as a one-of-kind effort; the movement towards reuse that carries the day in software design and programming has turned out to be much harder to follow in software architecture. This is at least partly due to the impact that non-functional requirements have on architectures, which make mere incorporation of functional pieces an untenable proposition. Software architecture reuse must not only reuse previously defined components, but also architecture structures and policies; not just reuse software, but also architecture itself. We will explore several alternatives towards this objective, including architecture recovery, reference architectures, domain-specific architectures, application frameworks, and model-driven architecture, and their implications for actual systems architecting.
Dr. Astudillo is a professor at UTFSM, where he is part of the Software Engineering group. His main research and professional area is Software Architecture, which he sees as the confluence of Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, and Object&Web Technologies. His current activities include a joint academia-industry experimental software engineering seminar, two interdisciplinary heritage-related projects, graduate teaching and advising, and active professional practice. Dr. Astudillo has several years of industry experience as Software Architect in U.S.A. and Chile, has been a professor in Sao Paulo (Brazil), and got a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1996.
Sprecher: Dr. Hernan Astudillo Wann: Freitag, 4. Feber 2005, 14:00 Uhr (s.t.) Wo: E 2.42, Universität Klagenfurt