Our Annual Research Review will
highlight several new developments since last year's
Annual Research Review:
- Successful application of the WINWIN Spiral Model to the development of 6
USC Digital Library multimedia systems. Refinement and successful USC
Digital Library multimedia systems. Refinement and successful application
of the model to the architecting of 16 more broadly-based USC Digital Library
applications.
- Demonstration with Aerospace Corp. and TRW of the integration of WinWin, A4/ACT-I, and Stanford's Rapide
architecture definition language in a representative satellite control system application.
- USC-ISI's applications of Instrumental Connectors to applications generation
and glue-code generation of COTS integration.
- Development of Bayesian methodology for integrating expert-based Delphi estimation models with data-driven
regression models, and application to a more robust and accurate COCOMO II. 1998
- Our major goal has been to combine WinWin and other success models, the WinWin Spiral model and other
process models, A4/ACT-I and other architecture/product models, and COCOMO II and other properties models, into an
integrated model-based approach to software and systems engineering. We believe we have achieved a good start
toward this goal with the Model-Integrated Software System Engineering (MISSE) approach. We'll begin the
Annual Research Review with a minitutorial on the MISSE approach. We'll
focus on the parts of it that are
important for strategic project decision making, such as the concept of model clashes and how to avoid them.
This review will include presentations and demonstrations of our recent research results, and an Affiliates'
panel on Software Trends and Technology Needs. It will wind up with
Affiliates' Steering Group dinner and feedback
session on Tuesday evening.
- Our executive Workshop on Wednesday will focus on Rapid Application Development (RAD), a consistently high-priority
topic among our affiliates. We welcome our executive-level Affiliates to participate in exploring RAD issues and
opportunities along with the CEO-level and VP-level panelists indicated in the Agenda.