Staff Page for Kurt C. Wallnau
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Job titleSenior Member of the Technical Staff
Administrative home
Product-Line Systems Program
Key responsibilities
Leading Exploratory Work in Predictable Assembly from Certifiable Components.
Professional Background
Kurt Wallnau has 20 years of experience in software research and development. Mr. Wallnau currently leads the Predictable Assembly from Certifiable Components (PACC) exploratory research project. Prior to this work on PACC, Mr. Wallnau led work in the SEI COTS-Based Systems initiative. This work culminated in the Addison-Wesley book in the SEI Series, Building Systems from Commercial Components.
Recent Publications
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Here are some of my publications on the topic of predictable assembly:
- Volume III: A Technology for Predictable Assembly from Certifiable Components, Kurt Wallnau, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2003-TR-009, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, April 2003. This outlines the core concepts for achieving "predictability by construction."
- Snapshot of CCL: A Language for Predictable Assembly, Kurt Wallnau, James Ivers, Technical Note CMU/SEI-2003-TN-025, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2003. This gives a quick view of a language for specifying abstract component technologies, as discussed in the "Volume III" report.
- Preserving Real Concurrency, James Ivers, Kurt Wallnau, Proceedings of the 2003 ECOOP Workshop on Correctness of Model-Based Software Composition (CMC), Technical Report 2003-13 at Universitat Karlsruhe, July, 2003. This discusses the approach we are taking to composing state machines specified in CCL so that models of assembly behavior accurately reflects reality.
- Hissam, S., Moreno, G., Stafford, J., Wallnau, K., Enabling Predictable Assembly, Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 65, No. 3, 15 March 2003, pg. 185-198, North Holland.
- A Basis for Composition Language CL, James Ivers, Nishant Sinha, and Kurt Wallnau, SEI Technical Note CMU/SEI-2002-TN-026, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. This provides a formal (CSP-based) precursor to CCL and our approach to composing component behavior.
- Packaging Predictable Assembly, Scott Hissam, Gabriel Moreno, Judith Stafford, and Kurt Wallnau, in the First International IFIP/ACM Working Conference on Component Deployment, June 20-21, 2002, Berlin, Germany, as a Springer-Verlag LNCS publication. This provides an accessible example of a prediction-enabled component technology. It is a nice, though simple, complement to the more full-blooded report on the substation automation experiment.
- Predictable Assembly of Substation Automation
Systems: An Experiment Report, 2nd Edition, Scott Hissam, John Hudak,
James Ivers, Mark Klein, Marnus Larsson (ABB), Gabriel Moreno, Linda Northrop,
Daniel Plakosh, Judith Stafford, Kurt Wallnau, William Wood,
Technical Report CMU/SEI-2002-TR-031, revised July 2003,
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA,
September 2002. This report provides a comprehensive accounting
of the development and validation of a prediction-enabled component technology
for substation automation systems.
- Other publications by me
Contact Information
Email: kcw@sei.cmu.edu
Phone: 412-268-3265
Fax: 412-268-5758