Software Architecture for Product Families: Principles and Practice

Mehdi Jazayeri is a professor of computer science and heads the Distributed Systems Group at the Technical University of Vienna. He has extensive experience in industry, and has held both technical and management positions at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Synapse Computer Corporation, and TRW Vidar. He has co-authored textbooks on software engineering, programming languages, and software processes. Alexander Ran is a Principal Scientist of Software Architecture at Nokia Research Center, where he leads research projects, provides consulting, and conducts architectural assessments of products for Nokia Business Units. Alexander is a contributor to the first and second PLoP books. He served as program co-chair of the First Working IFIP Conference on Software Architecture and the First Software Product Lines Conference. He was an invited speaker at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) and a keynote speaker on product families at the Symposium on Software Reusability. Frank van der Linden has been a researcher with Philips Research Laboratories for 15 years. Frank has broad experience in the component architecture of diverse electronic consumer and professional products. He recently moved to Philips Medical Systems, and is the editor of the proceedings for the special workshop on Software Architecture for Product Families being offered at ICSE.

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