Visiting Professor: Emeritus Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Nagl Monday 7 February 2011

Assalamu'alaikum and Dear all FSKSM staff and students,

A visit by Emeritus Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Nagl (RWTH Aachen University), Germany. You are cordially invited.Students of related research are free to make appointment to see him.

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Schedule

09:00am -10:00am
Meeting with Academic and Faculty Administration Staffs

10:15am - 11:15am
Seminar
Title : Software Architectures: An Integrative and Non-Mainstream Approach
Venue : TBC
See Abstract below !!

11:30am - 01:00pm
Discussion with Students

02:00pm - 03:00pm
Discussion with SE Dept. Staffs

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Abstract Seminar

Software Architectures: An Integrative and Non-Mainstream Approach
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Manfred Nagl, Software Engineering, RWTH Aachen University

For modeling Software Architectures there exist many, nearly disjoint approaches in the literature: OO and UML, dataflow architectures in the embedded community, different architecture styles, architectures in data base systems / information management systems, and architectures in the modularity community.

The talk gives arguments and ideas for an integrative approach which tries to incorporate all above and different approaches.

Especially, an architecture modeling approach has to be applicable for practical problems as reverse engineering, reengineering, and maintenance in general, where the latter often means extension and integration of existing systems.

The architecture approach unifies good ideas, all coming from programming languages: functional and data abstraction, object and type units, locality, layers within architectures, classification and similarities, subsystems, and genericity.

It, especially, points out that there is not only one but a series of architectures, from an abstract form to a concrete one, the latter describing the delivered system to a customer with a lot of specifics, like distribution, used infrastructure, efficiency transformations, used available components.



Literature

M. Nagl: Software Engineering – Methodological Programming-in-the-Large (in German), Springer-Verlag, 1990, a new edition with the title "Software Architectures: An Integrative and Practical Approach" is being under work