From: Paul Klint
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:41:04 +0100
Subject: [sen-list] Reminder:  Lecture =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9_van_der_Hoek__?=

You are cordially invited to the lecture of André van der Hoek,
this afternoon.

-- Paul Klint


TITLE: Continuous Coordination: Bridging Formal and Informal
Coordination in (Distributed) Software Development

SPEAKER: André van der Hoek, University of California, Irvine

VENUE: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)
Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ

ROOM: Z009

DATE: Monday, November 19, 2007

TIME: 14:00-15:00

ABSTRACT:
Modern software engineering approaches exhibit a fundamental
paradox: they are meant to support the collaborative activity of
software development, but cause individuals and groups to work
independently from one another. The underlying issue is that
existing approaches discretize time and tasks in concrete but
isolated process steps. This approach is fundamentally flawed in
assuming that human activity can be codified and that periodic
resynchronization of tasks is an easy task. In this talk, we
present a new approach, continuous coordination, which blends
a strong process-based approach with the sharing of "awareness
information" to inform developers of relevant ongoing parallel
activities. We introduce continuous coordination, as well as
how we are working towards realizing its vision in a variety of
exploratory software engineering tools.  We will pay particular
attention to the topics of Configuration Management, Software
Design, and Global Software Development.

BIO:
André van der Hoek is an associate professor in the Department of
Informatics of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer
Sciences and a faculty member of the Institute for Software Research,
both at the University of California, Irvine. He holds a joint B.S. and
M.S. degree in Business-Oriented Computer Science from the Erasmus
University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer
Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

André's research focuses on understanding and advancing the role of
design, coordination, and education in software. His research is driven
by a strong desire to offer practical solutions to real-world problems
through the construction of novel software tools and environments. At
the same time, his research is framed by a pursuit of novel theoretical
contributions that derive from deep understandings of the field.
Following this dual philosophy, he has developed several configuration
management systems, designed the widely-used xADL 2.0 architecture
description language, and created novel educational software engineering
approaches used at institutions across the world.

André is the principal designer of the new B.S. in Informatics at UC
Irvine and was honored, in 2005, as UC Irvine Professor of the Year for
his outstanding and innovative educational contributions.