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WISR'93: 6th Annual Workshop on Software Reuse
Summary and Working Group Reports
Jeff Poulin and Will Tracz
IBM Federal Systems Company,
Owego, NY
{tracz or poulinj}@vnet.ibm.com
The Sixth Annual Workshop on Institutionalizing Software Reuse
(WISR '93), hosted by IBM Federal Systems Company (FSC), took place
Nov. 2-4, 1993 in Owego, NY. Almost 80 experts representing more
than 60 industry, academic and government organizations worldwide
gathered to share problems and solutions in adopting software reuse.
The workshop began with an introductory session where participants
presented current and critical issues based on position papers they
submitted to the workshop. Attendees then divided into eight working
groups that covered a wide range of topics, including:
- Design for Reuse and Object Oriented Reuse Methods:
led by Doug Lea (SUNY Oswego/Syracuse CASE Center) and
Bill Frakes (Virginia Tech)
- Reuse Tools and Environments:
led by Becky Joos (Motorola) and
Tim Stockwell (The Mitre Corporation)
- Language Issues for Generic Code Architectures:
led by Larry Latour (University of Maine, Orono) and
Ira Baxter (Schlumberger)
- Hybrid Reuse with Domain-Specific Kits:
led by Martin Griss and
Kevin Wentzel (both of HP Laboratories)
- Reuse Education:
led by Ben Whittle (University of Wales, Aberystwyth
& University of York) and
Trudy Levine (Fairleigh Dickinson University)
- Technology Transfer:
leg by Sidney C. Bailin (CTA, Inc.) and
Guillermo Arango (Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science)
- Management Issues:
led by Patricia Stump (IBM Endicott) and
Terry Huber (DSD Laboratories, Inc.)
- Formal Methods and Certification of Reusable Components:
led by Maureen Stillman (Odyssey Research Associates)
The WISR'93 workshop revealed how far reuse technology has
advanced in recent years. Current research focuses not only on
``reuse-in the small,'' or the sharing of small utilities and functions,
but on ``reuse-in-large.'' Approaches to large scale reuse include the
building of programs from entire subsystems of existing software to
the building of generic frameworks that represent the structure of
entire classes of application programs.
This report was constructed by editing the individual working group
reports.
Complete versions of working group reports are available from the ftp
site listed at the end of this summary.
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Larry Latour
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