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   Dear colleagues,

   This   week  we  have  another  PEM  on  Thursday.  It's  on  software
   architecture  analysis,  so  it  will  be  of  special interest to our
   reverse engineers and documentation generation colleagues.

   This announcement can be found at <http://www.cwi.nl/~pem>

                 Software Metrics for Architecture Analysis

   Date:    27.06.02
   Time:    11:00
   Venue:   M280
   Speaker: Johan Muskens
   Title:   Software Metrics for Architecture Analysis

   The  Software  Engineering  discipline  lacks  the ability to evaluate
   software  architectures.  We  developed a software architecture metric
   collection  tool.  Metrics can be used to detect possible problems and
   bottlenecks in software architectures. Even though metrics do not give
   a  complete  evaluation  of  software  architectures  it  is  a useful
   analysis method.

   The  first  step  in making good software is making a good design. The
   design  defines  the  architecture  of  the  software to be built. The
   quality  of the software highly depends on the architecture defined in
   the early stages of he development process.

   The  architecture can influence the functional requirements as well as
   the  non-functional  requirements.  The impact of architectural design
   decisions in a software development process is very high.

   At  the  present  time  there  are  a few methods to evaluate software
   architectures.  SAAM  and  ATAM  are by far the most well known. These
   methods  are  evaluation  techniques of quality attributes of software
   architectures  by  a  group  of  architects.  We  present  a  software
   architecture  analysis  tool.  This  tool  calculates  metrics;  these
   metrics can help architects evaluating software architectures.
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   meeting  addresses  a subject in the area of programming environments,
   program  generation, algebraic specification, term rewriting, parsing,
   etc.  A presentation ideally takes between 45 and 90 minutes. Meetings
   taking  longer  than 45 minutes are interrupted by a coffeebreak. Most
   Thursdays,  a  meeting is held which starts at 10:00 am. in one of the
   rooms at CWI/WINS. Exceptionally, dates or times may change.

   The    program    of    the    meetings    is    available   on   WWW:
   http://www.cwi.nl/~pem
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