SMU CSE Distinguished Lecturer 9/25
SMU Bobby B. Lyle School of Engineering
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Value-Based Integration of
Systems and Software Engineering
Presented by
Professor Barry Boehm
University of Southern California
Friday, September 25, 2009
The Forum, Hughes-Trigg Student Center
10:30-11:30 a.m.
Refreshments will be served from 10:00 to 10:30 a.m.
Abstract: Several trends caused systems engineering and software engineering to initially evolve as largely sequential and independent processes. As a result, a generation of software engineering education and process improvement goals were focused on reductionist software development practices that assumed that other (mostly non-software people) would furnish appropriate predetermined requirements for the software.
However, as systems have become more human-intensive, net-centric, software-intensive, and rapidly changing, there has been an increasing need to evolve systems engineering into a more concurrent integration of hardware, software, and human factors engineering. This talk will summarize the challenges of doing this, present a value-based integration approach, and illustrate it with examples. It will also provide a short summary of the status and plans of the new DoD Systems Engineering Research Center, in which USC, SMU, and 15 other universities are participating.
Biography: Barry Boehm, TRW Professor of Software Engineering, Computer Science Department, USC Director Emeritus, USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering Director of Research, DoD-Stevens-USC Systems Engineering Research Center B.A., Harvard, 1957; M.A., Ph.D., UCLA, 1961, 1964; Sc.D. (hon), UMass, 2000. He served within the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) from 1989 to 1992 as director of the DARPA Information Science and Technology Office and as director of the DDR&E Software and Computer Technology Office. He worked at TRW from 1973 to 1989, culminating as chief scientist of the Defense Systems Group, and at the Rand Corporation from 1959 to 1973, culminating as head of the Information Sciences Department. He entered the software field at General Dynamics in 1955. His current research interests involve recasting systems and software engineering into a value-based framework, including processes, methods, tools, and an underlying theory and process for value-based systems and software definition, architecting, development, validation, and evolution. His contributions to the field include the Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) family of systems and software engineering estimation models, the Spiral Model and Incremental Commitment Model of the systems and software engineering process, and the Theory W (win-win) approach to systems and software management and requirements determination. He has received the ACM Distinguished Research Award in Software Engineering and the IEEE Harlan Mills Award, and lifetime achievement awards from the American Society for Quality Control and the International Society of Parametric Analysts. He is a Fellow of the primary professional societies in computing (ACM), aerospace (AIAA), electronics (IEEE), and systems engineering (INCOSE), and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
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