3rd International Workshop on Adoption-Centric Software Engineering

This report contains a set of papers that were presented at the Third International Workshop on Adoption-centric Software Engineering (ACSE).

A Conceptual Framework for Network Centric Warfare

Presented: December 2002

A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems

A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems contains a collection of quantitative methods that enable real-time systems developers to understand, analyze, and predict the timing behavior of many real-time systems.

A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation

As part of a cooperative effort, the Software Engineering Institute and National Research Council Canada have defined a tailorable commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software product evaluation process that can support organizations in making carefully reasoned and sound product decisions. The background fundamentals for that evaluation process, as well as steps and techniques to follow, are described in this report.

A Process for Context-Based Technology Evaluation

This report describes a process called context-based evaluation that determines the fitness of a technology within a specific context.

A Research Perspective on Maintenance and Reengineering of Service-Oriented Systems

This position paper surveys the landscape of service-oriented architecture practice as it pertains to service-orientation maintenance and reengineering.

A Scenario-Based Technique for Developing SOA Technical Governance

Organizations can make the available SOA governance frameworks more effective in their organizations using the scenario-based tailoring technique introduced in this technical note.

A Summary of DoD COTS-Related Policies

A Summary of DoD COTS-Related Policies

A Unified Process Improvement Approach for Multi-Model Improvement Environments

A Unified Process Improvement Approach for Multi-Model Improvement Environments

An Alternative to Technology Readiness Levels for Non-Developmental Item (NDI) Software

An Alternative to Technology Readiness Levels for Non-Developmental Item (NDI) Software

An Emergent Perspective on Interoperation in Systems of Systems

This technical report characterizes systems of systems from several perspectives; shows the role of emergent behavior in systems of systems; and introduces interoperability as the domain of development, use, sustainment, and evolution for systems of systems. It argues that the increasing importance of systems of systems was inevitable, emergent behavior is inherent in systems of systems, traditional software and systems engineering methods are inadequate for interoperation of systems of systems, and emergent methods offer a potential for cost-effective and predictable solutions. This report aims to facilitate discussion and reasoning about interoperation within systems of systems by showing some of the interdependencies among systems, emergence, and interoperation. It establishes a sizable but incomplete repertoire of topics, characteristics, and principles that are fundamental to the intersection of systems of systems, emergent behavior, and interoperation.

Approaches to Constructive Interoperability

Approaches to Constructive Interoperability

Approaches to Legacy System Evolution

Approaches to Legacy System Evolution

Army ASSIP System-of-Systems Test Metrics Task

Army ASSIP System-of-Systems Test Metrics Task

Army Engineering Center Chooses SMART Approach to SOA Planning

Army Engineering Center Chooses SMART Approach to SOA Planning

Assembling Large Systems from COTS Components

Assembling Large Systems from COTS Components: Opportunities, Cautions, and Complexities

Assumptions Management in Software Development

Assumptions Management in Software Development

Automating Design Search

Automating Design Search

Beyond IPPD: Distributed Collaboration in a Systems-of-Systems (SoS) Context

presented at SEPG Europe - June 2008

Building Blocks for Achieving Quality of Service with Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Middleware

Building Blocks for Achieving Quality of Service with Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Middleware

Building Systems from Commercial Components Using EPIC

Building Systems from Commercial Components Using EPIC

Building Systems from Commercial Components Using Model Problems

Building Systems from Commercial Components Using Model Problems

Building Systems from Commercial Components: Classroom Experiences

Building Systems from Commercial Components: Classroom Experiences

COTS Evaluation in the Real World

COTS Evaluation in the Real World

COTS Product Evaluation and System Design

COTS Product Evaluation and System Design

COTS Usage Risk Evaluation Participant’s Overview

COTS Usage Risk Evaluation Participant’s Overview

COTS and Open Systems

COTS and Open Systems

COTS and Risk: Some Thoughts on How They Connect

The COTS Spot - Volume 3 | Issue 1 | March 2000

Case Study: Correcting System Failure in a COTS Information System

Case Study: Correcting System Failure in a COTS Information System

Case Study: Evaluating COTS Products for DoD Information Systems

Case Study: Evaluating COTS Products for DoD Information Systems

Case Study: Significant Schedule Delays in a Complex NDI-Based System

Case Study: Significant Schedule Delays in a Complex NDI-Based System

Challenges of Establishing Network-Centric Operations I: Technical Research Challenges

Challenges of Establishing Network-Centric Operations I: Technical Research Challenges

Changing Focus

Changing Focus

Claims You’ll Need to Justify to Assure That Your System Will Succeed

Claims You’ll Need to Justify to Assure That Your System Will Succeed

Concept of Operations for ESC's Product Line Approach

Concept of Operations for ESC's Product Line Approach

Conditions for Achieving Network-Centric Operations in Systems of Systems

Conditions for Achieving Network-Centric Operations in Systems of Systems

Conflict Patterns: Toward Identifying Suitable Middleware

Conflict Patterns: Toward Identifying Suitable Middleware

Construction and Deployment Scripts for COTS-Based, Open Source Systems

Construction and Deployment Scripts for COTS-Based, Open Source Systems

Create, Apply, and Amplify: A Story of Technology Development

Create, Apply, and Amplify: A Story of Technology Development

Current Perspectives on Interoperability

Current Perspectives on Interoperability

Custom vs. Off-the-Shelf Architecture

Custom vs. Off-the-Shelf Architecture

Design and Search

Design and Search

Distributed Project Governance Assessment

This tool reveals details embedded in an organization’s typical work flows,
their controlling stakeholders, and the
important quality attributes associated
with the performance of those dependencies.

Distributed Software: From Component Model to Software Architecture

Distributed Software: From Component Model to Software Architecture

DoD Security Needs and COTS-Based Systems

DoD Security Needs and COTS-Based Systems

Emergent Issues in Interoperability

Emergent Issues in Interoperability

Enterprise Framework for the Disciplined Evolution of Legacy Systems

Enterprise Framework for the Disciplined Evolution of Legacy Systems

Enterprise Integration

Enterprise Integration

Evaluation of COTS Products: Some Thoughts on the Process

Evaluation of COTS Products: Some Thoughts on the Process

Exploring Programmatic Interoperability: Army Future Force Workshop

Exploring Programmatic Interoperability: Army Future Force Workshop

Five Maxims about Emergent Behavior in Systems of Systems

Five Maxims about Emergent Behavior in Systems of Systems

Gobus Toolkit 3 Core - A Grid Service Container Framework

Gobus Toolkit 3 Core - A Grid Service Container Framework

Guidance on Commercial-Based and Open Systems for Coast Guard Program Managers

Guidance on Commercial-Based and Open Systems for Coast Guard Program Managers

Guidance on Commercial-Based and Open Systems for Program Managers

Guidance on Commercial-Based and Open Systems for Program Managers

Guiding Principles for Interoperability

Guiding Principles for Interoperability

Industry Best Practices in Achieving Service Oriented Architecture

Industry Best Practices in Achieving Service Oriented Architecture

Integration and Interoperability Models for Systems of Systems

Appropriate models have proven to be of considerable value in many engineering
domains. The SEI is in need of such models for integrating collections of software systems. Efforts have produced several interesting and useful models, butmuch more work is needed.

The trend toward ever-increasing interconnection between systems will continue. The nature and quality of these interconnections will be governed by decisions already being made and the effects of these decisions may be long-lasting.

Interoperable Acquisition for Systems of Systems: The Challenges

Interoperable Acquisition for Systems of Systems: The Challenges

Introducing a Guide to Interoperability

Within the Department of Defense (DoD), government, and corporate worlds, large-scale systems of systems (SoS) are increasingly being put together in an unprecedented way. Establishing interoperability between the constituent systems is increasingly a key for an organization to meet its critical goals. However, as organizations envision transparent net-centric operations spanning a large number of systems, we have found that successfully achieving such a vision requires a fundamental shift in traditional ways of thinking about system development, acquisition, and management.

Isolating Faults in Complex COTS-Based Systems

Isolating Faults in Complex COTS-Based Systems

Joint Capabilities and System-of-Systems Solutions: A Case for Crossing Solution Domains

Joint Capabilities and System-of-Systems Solutions: A Case for Crossing Solution Domains

Just In Time Component Competence

Just In Time Component Competence

Low-Cost Approach to Technology Evaluation

T-Check: Low-Cost Approach to Technology Evaluation

Making Team Plans

Making Team Plans

Migrating Legacy Systems to SOA Environments

Migrating Legacy Systems to SOA Environments

Model Problems in Technologies for Interoperability: Model-Driven Architecture

Model Problems in Technologies for Interoperability: Model-Driven Architecture

Model Problems in Technologies for Interoperability: OWL Web Ontology Language for Services (OWL-S)

Model Problems in Technologies for Interoperability: OWL Web Ontology Language for Services (OWL-S)

Model Problems in Technologies for Interoperability: Web Services

Model Problems in Technologies for Interoperability: Web Services

Modernizing Legacy Systems

Modernizing Legacy Systems

Nine Characteristics of a COTS and Reuse Management Plan

Nine Characteristics of a COTS and Reuse Management Plan

Options Analysis for Reengineering (OAR): Issues and Conceptual Approach

Options Analysis for Reengineering (OAR): Issues and Conceptual Approach

Organisational Interoperability Maturity Model for C2

Organisational Interoperability Maturity Model for C2

Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software

Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software brings together leading analysts and researchers to address this question, examining specific aspects of F/OSS in a way that is both scientifically rigorous and highly relevant to real-life managerial and technical concerns.

Perspectives on Open Source Software

Perspectives on Open Source Software

Proceedings of the SEI/MCC Symposium on the Use of COTS in Systems Integration

Proceedings of the SEI/MCC Symposium on the Use of COTS in Systems Integration

Proceedings of the System of Systems Interoperability Workshop (February 2003)

Proceedings of the System of Systems Interoperability Workshop (February 2003)

Programmatic Interoperability

Programmatic Interoperability

Promising Technologies for Future Systems

Promising Technologies for Future Systems

Requirements and COTS-Based Systems: A Thorny Question Indeed

Requirements and COTS-Based Systems: A Thorny Question Indeed

Requisite Agility

Requisite Agility

Revealing Cost Drivers for Systems Integration and Interoperability Through Q Methodology

The findings suggest that Q Methodology may prove helpful in isolating many of the non-technical latent cost factors
associated with system integration and interoperability.

Risk/Misfit Redux

Risk/Misfit Redux

SEI Mosaic: Rethinking Risk Management

This document highlights a new, systemic approach to risk management using recently released SEI Mosaic, a suite of methods that can be used across the life cycle and supply chain.

SEI Service Migration and Reuse Technique (SMART)

SEI Service Migration and Reuse Technique (SMART)

SMART Training Workshop

Before launching a migration effort, an
organization needs to make a realistic
assessment of the cost, risk, and feasibility of migrating a specific set of legacy systems to a specific SOA environment. The SEI Service Migration and Reuse Technique (SMART) has a growing track record of helping organizations to develop realistic and successful strategies for migrating legacy systems to their targeted SOA environments.

SMART: The Service-Oriented Migration and Reuse Technique

SMART: The Service-Oriented Migration and Reuse Technique

SOA Research Agenda

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has drawn tremendous interest an investment in government and industry organizations. The SEI is leading the development of a broad and deep research agenda on the topics critical to success with SOA adoption.

This presentation, delivered at a 2008 workshop on hard problems in SOA, details the agenda taxonomy.

SOA Workshop, January 2008

Service-Oriented Architectures as an Interoperability Mechanism

Service-Oriented Architectures as an Interoperability Mechanism

SoS Navigator 2.0: A Context-Based Approach to System-of-Systems Challenges

SoS Navigator 2.0: A Context-Based Approach to System-of-Systems Challenges

Some Current Approaches to Interoperability

Some Current Approaches to Interoperability

Steps Toward Network-Centric Operation

Steps Toward Network-Centric Operation

Survival in a Systems of Systems World

Presented: June 2007

System of Systems Interoperability (SOSI): Final Report

This technical report documents the findings of an internal research and development effort on system of systems interoperability (SOSI).

System-of-Systems Governance: New Patterns of Thought

System-of-Systems Governance: New Patterns of Thought

System-of-Systems Navigator: An Approach for Managing System-of-Systems Interoperability

System-of-Systems Navigator: An Approach for Managing System-of-Systems Interoperability

System-of-Systems Navigator: An Approach for Managing System-of-Systems Interoperability

System-of-Systems Navigator: An Approach for Managing System-of-Systems Interoperability

T-Check for Technologies for Interoperability: Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA): Part 1

T-Check for Technologies for Interoperability: Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA): Part 1

T-Check in Technologies for Interoperability: Business Process Management in a Web Services Context

To gain advantage, an organization can use business process management (BPM) technologies to describe, analyze, execute, and monitor business processes. This technical note presents an investigation of the Business Process Execution Language, a popular BPM technology.

T-Check in Technologies for Interoperability: Web Services and Security--Single Sign-On

T-Check in Technologies for Interoperability: Web Services and Security--Single Sign-On

The Double Challenge in Engineering Complex Systems of Systems

The Double Challenge in Engineering Complex Systems of Systems

The Elusive Search for Categories

The Elusive Search for Categories

The Good News About COTS

The Good News About COTS

Theory and Practice of Enterprise JavaBean Portability

Theory and Practice of Enterprise JavaBean Portability

Topics in Interoperability: Concepts of Ownership and Their Significance in Systems of Systems

Topics in Interoperability: Concepts of Ownership and Their Significance in Systems of Systems

Topics in Interoperability: Infrastructure Replacement in a System of Systems

Topics in Interoperability: Infrastructure Replacement in a System of Systems

Topics in Interoperability: Structural Programmatics in a System of Systems

Topics in Interoperability: Structural Programmatics in a System of Systems

Topics in Interoperability: System-of-Systems Evolution

Topics in Interoperability: System-of-Systems Evolution

Ultra-Large-Scale (ULS) Systems (CBSE 2009)

keynote presentation given at
12th International Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2009), June 24-26, 2009, East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania

Wheels Within Wheels: Model Problems in Practice

Wheels Within Wheels: Model Problems in Practice

Who's in Charge Here?

Who's in Charge Here?

Workshop Examines SOA Hard Problems and Potential Solutions

Workshop Examines SOA Hard Problems and Potential Solutions

Workshop on COTS-Based Systems

Workshop on COTS-Based Systems

Workshop on SOA Governance

Insight into a key to success in an SOA environment

Workshop on SOA Strategy

Workshop on SOA Strategy - Focus on Business and Mission Priorities