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A Systems Engineering Perspective of Aspect-oriented Software
Architectural Analysis

Presenter: Dr. Phillip Schmidt, The Aerospace Corporation

Abstract: Literature on Unified Modeling Language (UML) and aspect-orientation often focus on improving the software development process. This presentation offers a systems engineering perspective that motivates an aspect-oriented software architectural analysis approach using representations of UML models. This approach is important in contributing to the direction of applying aspect-orientation with UML because it attempts to bridge the gap between software development projects that initiate or follow the recommended research directions in the literature with those that unfortunately, and too frequently, do not. The approach is motivated based on our experiences with a Real-time Embedded Architecture-Centric Testbed (REACT) that was used to perform aspect-oriented software architectural analyses of large military projects and our current applied research in architectural representation using our Software Architectural Representation Analysis and Experimentation Environment (SARAEE). The presentation will discuss our approach, present some issues representing cross-cutting architectural concerns that we are investigating and identify aspect-oriented representation issues relevant to UML.

Bio: Dr. Schmidt received his Ph.D. from UCLA in Computer Science. He has worked as a software and systems engineer at companies formerly known as Hughes Aircraft Company, and TRW on distributed, command and control systems. Currently he is working at The Aerospace Corporation doing software architectural assessments of large military projects where he is privileged to work with some of the brightest people in the world. He is the chief software architect for the Real-time Embedded Architecture-Centric Testbed (REACT) and a co-principal investigator for Software Architectural Representation Analysis and Experimentation Environment (SARAEE). He does more than enough coffee, not enough woodworking, and a little bit of thinking.