Cots-based Software Systems: 4th International Conference, Iccbss 2005, Bilbao, Spain, February 7-11, 2005, Proceedings (lecture Notes In Computer Science / Programming And Software Engineering)
by Xavier Franch /
2005 / English / DjVu
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The theme “Build and Conquer” chosen for this year’s conference
fully represents what we (the organizers) want to put across to the
software community: software development is an engineering
discipline, and not an artistic expression. Once we are ready to
“build” our software systems using pieces previously builtin
(similar to any other technology manufacturer), we will be able to
“conquer” the software engineering process. If we take a look at
other engineering disciplines such as car manufacturing, house
appliances or aeronautics, we see that the final products are built
through the integration of multiprovider commercial components.
These components are successfully integrated and constitute an
important part of the final product. Most software-related
organizations still build software from scratch, omitting thousands
of ready-built commercially available software components that
could be used very effectively during the development phase. This
year ICCBSS moves to Europe for the first time since the first
conference took place in Orlando, FL, USA in 2002. The conference
scope has enlarged over the years to include the Open Source
community and Web Services technologies. The reason for this is
that I believe both are considered components-off-the-shelf, so
many of the characteristics of COTS are also applied to Open Source
and Web Services. Due to this, we will enjoy the presence of
keynote speakers and researchers presenting on these two topics for
the first time.
The theme “Build and Conquer” chosen for this year’s conference
fully represents what we (the organizers) want to put across to the
software community: software development is an engineering
discipline, and not an artistic expression. Once we are ready to
“build” our software systems using pieces previously builtin
(similar to any other technology manufacturer), we will be able to
“conquer” the software engineering process. If we take a look at
other engineering disciplines such as car manufacturing, house
appliances or aeronautics, we see that the final products are built
through the integration of multiprovider commercial components.
These components are successfully integrated and constitute an
important part of the final product. Most software-related
organizations still build software from scratch, omitting thousands
of ready-built commercially available software components that
could be used very effectively during the development phase. This
year ICCBSS moves to Europe for the first time since the first
conference took place in Orlando, FL, USA in 2002. The conference
scope has enlarged over the years to include the Open Source
community and Web Services technologies. The reason for this is
that I believe both are considered components-off-the-shelf, so
many of the characteristics of COTS are also applied to Open Source
and Web Services. Due to this, we will enjoy the presence of
keynote speakers and researchers presenting on these two topics for
the first time.