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The theme "Build and Conquer" chosen for this year's conference
fully represents what we (the organizers) want to put across to the
software community: software development is an engineering
discipline, and not an artistic expression. Once we are ready to
"build" our software systems using pieces previously builtin
(similar to any other technology manufacturer), we will be able to
"conquer" the software engineering process. If we take a look at
other engineering disciplines such as car manufacturing, house
appliances or aeronautics, we see that the final products are built
through the integration of multiprovider commercial components.
These components are successfully integrated and constitute an
important part of the final product. Most software-related
organizations still build software from scratch, omitting thousands
of ready-built commercially available software components that
could be used very effectively during the development phase. This
year ICCBSS moves to Europe for the first time since the first
conference took place in Orlando, FL, USA in 2002. The conference
scope has enlarged over the years to include the Open Source
community and Web Services technologies. The reason for this is
that I believe both are considered components-off-the-shelf, so
many of the characteristics of COTS are also applied to Open Source
and Web Services. Due to this, we will enjoy the presence of
keynote speakers and researchers presenting on these two topics for
the first time.
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COTS-Based Software Systems - Third International Conference, ICCBSS 2004, Redondo Beach, CA, USA, February 1-4, 2004, Proceedings (Paperback, 2004 ed.)
Rick 'Kazman, Dan Port
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In the short space of about a decade, Commercial-Off-the-Shelf
(COTS) software has evolved through being a relatively minor aspect
of software development; a t-
management-endorsedsilverbulletsolutionforsoftwaredevelopment;adisruptivete-
nology requiring people and organizations to extensively rethink
their approaches to software development; to an increasingly
well-understood software phenomenon for which effective solutions
are being developed. Part of this understanding has been to
recognize that different COTS application sectors can be at
different stages of this evolution. Some sectors are just beginning
to become COTS-intensive. Some have evolved COTS solutions that are
very well matched to their problem domain. Others, including most
large-scale applications, still involve their developers in
rethinking how to adapt their traditional software architectures,
processes, management practices, and personnel skills to
accommodate economically attractive but complex combinations of
powerful but incompletely compatible and independently evolving
COTS products. The series of International Conferences on
COTS-Based Software Systems (ICCBSS) has been established as a
continuing forum for bringing together CBSS developers, s- pliers,
and researchers to summarize and discuss progress toward
understanding and resolving CBSS problems. This year s conference
theme, Matching Solutions to P-
blems,"re?ectsthisobjective.Wehavebeenfortunatetohavethreeoutstandingkeynote
speakers, David Carr, Tricia Oberndorf, and Douglas Schmidt, who
have contributed signi?cantly both in analyzing CBSS problems and
developing better CBSS solutions. The contributed papers and
summaries of workshops, panels, and tutorials in these
ProceedingsgiveagoodunderstandingofthenatureanddirectionsofevolutionofCBSS
problems and solutions.As has been my experience with previous
ICCBSS Proceedings volumes, I believe that you will ?nd lasting
value in the content of the Proceedings."
Today's software designers are frequently called upon to
incorporate increasingly diverse and dynamically changing
technologies into everyday business operations. "SIM" is a recently
devised methodology created by the author for identifying the
components of a complex system and combining them into a
well-structured framework in which the interaction of these
components faithfully represents the operations of the system. It
addresses the need for a practical and effective way to combine
diverse technologies with the ultimate goal of delivering what is
really wanted. This "Systems Integration Methodology" enables
conscious decisions to be made that are consistent with project
goals, and the system's general responsibilities. This process
results in a system that is highly reflective of the organization
in which it operates, as opposed to the system designer's best
"speculative" results. Accompanying the book is a cross-platform
CD-ROM containing student projects, animations, templates and
proprietary, author-developed software for helping students and
professionals alike to develop and model their own system's needs.
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