Workshop Organizers

Service Oriented Architectures and Product Lines - What is the Connection?

10 September 2007, Kyoto

Paul Clements is a senior member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. There, he works in areas of software architecture and software product lines. He has co-authored four books in software engineering, including Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns, as well as over fifty papers in architecture, documentation, software structure, and product line methodologies. He was the conference chair for the 2004 International Software Product Line Conference and program co-chair for the first one. He has organized or co-organized ten workshops at AOSD, OOPSLA, and ICSE conferences, as well as at SPLC-Europe 2005 and SPLC 2006. He holds a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Texas at Austin, and a M.Sc. in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For more information visit http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/clements/. E-mail: clements@sei.cmu.edu.

Sholom Cohen is a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute. Mr. Cohen is a member of the Product Line Systems Program and has authored major technical reports and conference papers on product lines, including: asset development, product development, and variability management. He is a contributor to the Product Line Framework and the Product Line Business and Acquisitions Guidelines. Mr. Cohen has supported product line development and acquisition for both DoD and industrial organizations in various practice areas, including: Architecture Definition and Evaluation, Understanding Relevant Domains, Scoping, Configuration Management, Building A Business Case, and others. Mr. Cohen has organized panel sessions at ECOOP and at the International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR). He has chaired workshops at OOPSLA, ICSR, and at prior Software Product Line Conferences, including 2002 and 2004. He holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, and Columbia University. For more information visit http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/sgc/. E-mail: sgc@sei.cmu.edu.

Andreas Helferich is a lecturer and researcher at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He is also currently working on his PhD on the application of the concept of Mass Customization to complex information systems. His recent publications include papers presented at SPLC 05 and 06, ECIS 2005, and the 2005 World Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization, as well as articles published in the Communications of the ACM and Wirtschaftsinformatik. Andreas holds a Master in Business Administration (Dipl.-Kfm.) from the University of Stuttgart and a M.Sc. in Management Information Systems from the University of Missouri - St. Louis. E-mail: helferich@wi.uni-stuttgart.de.

Robert Krut is a member of the technical staff at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. He cuurently works in the areas of software architecture and software product lines. He has authored technical reports in product lines, domain engineering, and domain analysis. He is a contributor to the Product Line Framework and has lead strategy and implementation teams for the SEI's web-based information. He holds degrees in computer science, electrical engineering, and physics from Johns Hopkins University, Pennsylvania State University, and Edinboro State University, respectively. For more information visit http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/rk/. Email: rk@sei.cmu.edu

Grace Lewis is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute. She is currently the lead for the System of Systems Engineering team within the Integration of Software-Intensive Systems (ISIS) initiative. Her current interests and projects are in service-oriented architecture, technologies for interoperability, modernization of legacy systems, and characterization of software development life cycle activities in systems of systems environments. Her latest publications include several reports published by Carnegie Mellon on these subjects and a book in the SEI Software Engineering Series. She is also a member of the technical faculty for the Master in Software Engineering program at CMU. Grace holds a B.Sc. in Systems Engineering and an Executive MBA from Icesi University in Cali, Colombia; and a Master in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. For more information visit http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/glewis/. E-mail: glewis@sei.cmu.edu.

Dennis Smith is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff and Lead of the Integration of Software-Intensive Systems (ISIS) Initiative at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). This initiative focuses on developing and applying methods, tools and other technologies that enhance the effectiveness of complex networked systems and systems of systems. Currently he has been involved with working with DoD organizations to develop an SOA capability, including issues of SOA strategy, governance and migration of legacy assets to SOA. Previously, he was a member of the Product Line Systems Program and technical lead in the effort for migrating legacy systems to product lines. He has published a variety of books, articles and technical reports, and has given talks and keynotes at conferences and workshops. Dennis was the co-editor of the IEEE and ISO recommended practice on CASE Adoption, and has been general chair of two international conferences. Dennis holds an M.A. and PhD from Princeton University, and a B.A. from Columbia University. For more information visit http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/dbs/. E-mail: dbs@sei.cmu.edu.

Christoph Wienands is a Member of Technical Staff at Siemens Corporate Research, a central research organization within Siemens. His activities focus mostly on product lines, Software Factories and model-driven development. He is author of "Practical Software Factories in .Net" and presented at conferences such as UML & Design World, SD West, and others. Over the past years he has been architecture lead for the development of a SOA-based system. Christoph holds a Diplom-Informatiker (FH) from Furtwangen University, Germany. Email: Christoph.wienands@siemens.com