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Notice
and Invitation
Oral Defense of Doctoral Dissertation
The Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University
Julie S. Fant
Bachelor of Science, James Madison University, 2001
Master of Science, George Mason University, 2005
An Approach to Building Domain
Specific Software Architectures Using Software Architectural
Design Patterns
Thursday, July
21, 2011, 10:30am – 12:30pm (Changed from 10:00am to
10:30am)
Engineering Bldg., Room 2302
All are invited to attend.
Committee
Hassan Gomaa, Chair
Andrew Sage
Sam Malek
Alexander
Brodsky
Robert G. Pettit IV
Abstract
Software architectural design patterns represent best practice solutions to common design challenges. However, applying design patterns in practice can be difficult because they are typically documented to be domain independent. This makes applying them in a particular domain difficult. Knowing where and at what level of abstraction software architectural design patterns should be applied in a given domain is not always clear. Currently, there are no existing approaches for building and validating domain specific software architectures that focus on reusing and composing existing software architectural design patterns. This dissertation addresses this gap by developing a software product line (SPL) based approach to building and validating domain specific software architectures from software architectural design patterns.
The
key contributions of this research include: the definition of
distributed
real-time and embedded (DRE) executable design patterns; the
definition of a
SPL design approach that captures SPL variability at a higher
degree of
granularity using design patterns; the definition of different
levels of
required executable design pattern customizations; and a feature
and design
pattern based functional validation approach.
Additionally, a domain specific SPL and two real world
case studies are
provided to validate and demonstrate the applicability of this
approach.
A copy of this doctoral dissertation is on reserve at the Johnson Center Library.