Staff Page for Peter H. Feiler

Senior Member of the Technical Staff

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Performance-Critical Systems (PCS)

Key responsibilities

Peter Feiler is the technical lead and author of the SAE AS-2C Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL) standard. This standard has been published in Nov 2004 as SAE document AS5506. Version 2 of the standard is going into ballot in 2008.

Professional Background

Feiler is a senior member of the technical staff at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). He has been with the SEI for 23 years. His duties at the SEI included five years of management. His interests include dependable real-time systems, architecture languages for embedded systems, and predictable system analysis & engineering.

Before joining the SEI, he did research and led a group in software technology at the Siemens Corporate Research and Technology Lab in Princeton, NJ. During that period he also was the system architect for the software development environment in a large-scale product development.

Publications (recent or significant)

• Peter H. Feiler, Jorgen Hansson, Impact of Runtime Architectures on Control System Stability, Proceedings of 4th International Congress on Embedded Real-Time Systems, Jan 2008.
  
  
• L. Northrop, R. Balzer, K. Sullivan, R. Gabriel, D. Smith, M. Klein, P. Feiler, et.al. Ultra Large Scale Systems: Software Challenge of the Future, study and report commissioned by Claude M. Bolton, Jr., assistant secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology), Software Engineering Institute, June 2006, http://www.sei.cmu.edu/uls/.
  
  
• SAE International, "Architecture Analysis & Design Language (AADL)," Feiler, Peter, Author & Editor, SAE Document AS5506, Nov 2004.
  
  
• Feiler, Peter H. et al., "Pattern-Based Analysis of an Embedded Real-time System Architecture," International Workshop on Architecture Description Languages (WADL04), Aug 2004.
  
  
• Peter H. Feiler and Watts Humphrey, "Software Process Development and Enactment: Concepts and Definitions," Communication of the ACM, Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 75-90, September, 1992.
  
  

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University
• Vordiplom in Math/CS from Technical University Munich

Professional Memberships and Activities

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International

Contact Information

Electronic mail address: phf@sei.cmu.edu

Phone: +1-412-268-7790

Fax: 412-268-5758

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