About the Authors
Will Tracz
Will Tracz is a senior programmer at the Owego Laboratory of the IBM Federal Sector Division specializing in the technical and non-technical aspects of software reusability. He is a member of IBM Corporate Reuse Council and IBM FSD Reuse Steering Committee as well as an editor for the IBM Corporate Programming Reuse Newsletter. Tracz has written over 25 publications on software reuse, programming languages, and microprogramming. He has given keynote addresses as several workshops and conferences on software reuse. His book, Software Reuse: Emerging Technology, published by IEEE Computer Society Press, 1988, paints a broad picture of the technical, economic, pedagogical and social issues facing the transfer of software reuse technology into the work place. Currently, Tracz is co-principle investigator for the DARPA Domain Specific Software Architecture project focusing on the Avionics application domain.
Lou Coglianese
Lou Coglianese is a senior programmer at the Owego Laboratory of the IBM Federal Sector Division specializing in large-scale software reuse as it applies to Avionics and ESM real-time software development. He was the designer and developer of the Reusable Avionics Ada Software Proof-of-concept program as well as the developer of Owego Software Component Guidelines for Domain Analysis and Large Scale Reusable Software. Coglianese is the former chair of the Owego Reusable Software Advisory Board. Currently he is co-principle investigator for the DARPA Domain Specific Software Architecture project focusing on the Avionics application domain.