SPECIAL DEMETER SEMINAR FOR MARK SIMOS' KEYNOTE ADDRESS

NOTE UNUSUAL TIME:  TUESDAY, Sep. 2, 3-5pm, 206 Egan Center.

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M. Simos

Organization Domain Modeling and OO Analysis and Design: Distinctions,
Integration, New Directions

Keynote address for STJA '97, Erfurt, Germany

The term "domain engineering" has come into common use over the last decade
within a loosely formed community of researchers and practitioners
concerned with systematic software reuse. In this community,  the term
"domain" generally denotes an area of functionality within a set or class
of software systems; domain engineering (DE) offers a systematic method for
designing software for a multi-use scope of applicability  within a given
domain. DE techniques and concepts could make a contribution to OO
development methods, offering a more systematic approach to engineering of
multi-system platforms, software product line architectures and components,
domain-specific application frameworks, and component bases for reuse
across vertical application areas, to be traded in an open component
marketplace. In this talk I will provide some background on the concerns
which motivated development of DE methods in the reuse context, and will
suggest ways that these methods could complement and augment OO development
techniques. I also present what I consider leading-edge research questions
for the domain engineering discipline, questions that challenge fundamental
assumptions of both the reuse and OO communities.