11月26日学术报告会－Speaker: Prof. Kyo Chul Kang

应“高可信软件技术教育部重点实验室”主任梅宏教授的邀请，韩国浦项科技大学 Kyo Chul Kang 教授将于11月26日访问北京大学，并作学术报告。

Kyo Chul Kang 教授是软件复用领域的著名学者，曾在贝尔实验室、卡耐基梅隆大学软件工程研究所等研究机构任职；他在卡耐基梅隆大学软件工程研究所任职期间，提出了面向特征的领域分析方法（FODA），在软件复用领域产生了深远的学术影响力。

报告摘要：Product line software engineering (PLSE) has been recognized as a key software development paradigm for meeting diverse needs of the global market efficiently and effectively giving competitive advantages to IT industries and embedded systems developers. The Product Line Engineering Program of SEI (www.sei.cmu.edu) and a series of Esprit and ITEA projects of EU sparked researches and technology transfer efforts in this area since early 90s. The PLSE paradigm has been changing the way software developers think about software development: from the single application view to the application family, i.e., product line view. Several software engineering concepts and techniques have been developed to support the product line engineering, including commonality and variability analysis, variation points and variants, variability management, and generative programming. As the PLSE paradigm has been applied to large-scale domains such as automobile and mobile communications, the ability to manage variability effectively has been recognized as a key success factor. In my talk, I will give an overview the evolution of reuse concepts, discuss various dimensions of variability management, give a brief introduction of the method that I have been working on, and then discuss research issues.

报告人简历：Dr. Kyo Chul Kang received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982. Since then he has worked as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and as a member of technical staff at Bell Communications Research and AT&T Bell Laboratories before joining the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University as a senior member in 1987. He is currently a professor at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) in Korea. He served as General Chair for the 8th International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR) held in Madrid, Spain in 2004, General Chair for the 11th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC2007) held in Kyoto, Japan in September 2007, and also for the 14th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC2010) to be held in Jeju, Korea in September 2010. While at the University of Michigan, he was involved in the development of PSL/PSA, a requirements engineering tool system, and a Meta modeling technique. Since then his research has focused on software reuse and software product line engineering. His current research areas include software reuse and product line engineering, requirements engineering, and computer-aided software engineering.