Speaker Abstracts Now Being Accepted for SATURN 2011

Save the date! The SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) 2011 conference is headed west to San Mateo County, California May 16-20, 2011.

The SATURN team at the Software Engineering Institute is pleased to announce the opening of the call for submissions for the SATURN 2011 Conference. We are looking for individuals who have real-world examples, lessons learned, innovative ideas, or an exciting perspective on software architecture to share with fellow software professionals.

The theme for the SATURN 2011 conference is “Architecting the Future” with a focus on architecture methods, techniques, and practices that will shape the future of architecture and enable architecture to shape our future. We’re calling this “7 Things You Need to Know about the Next 7 Years in Architecture.”

We invite those interested in speaking at SATURN 2011 to submit abstracts for presentations or half-day tutorial sessions. As part of SATURN’s collaboration with IEEE Software magazine, selected conference papers will be featured in IEEE Software.

Abstracts will be accepted until midnight on November 30, 2010.

For more information on topics, format, terms and conditions, and submission details, visit the SATURN 2011 website at http://www.sei.cmu.edu/saturn/2011/call.cfm.

We look forward to receiving your submission and we hope to see you in California!

About the SATURN Conference
The annual SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference brings together software professionals from around the world to exchange best practices in developing, acquiring, and maintaining software and systems architecture.

New Edition of Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond

Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond, Second Edition, is now available at the Addison-Wesley website InformIT, where lead author Paul Clements discusses the new edition in an interview.

SATURN 2010 Best Presentation Awards (reprinted from IEEE Software)

IEEE Software sponsored two outstanding presenter awards during the Sixth Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference, in May 2010. The awards were created to honor presenters for their contributions to architecture-centric practices. The awards, the first ever at a SATURN conference, were conferred based directly on conference attendees’ votes.

Essays in Design (5) – Len Bass

I left this topic at the end of the test phase of generate and test. The generate phase still needs to be discussed. How does one generate the next hypothesis?

Generate next design hypothesis

The test phase will identify a list of four types of problems to be addressed in the next design hypothesis. These are a list of responsibilities not currently in the design hypothesis, a list of quality attribute problems with the current design hypothesis, a list of mechanisms to support the policies decided as a result of the view-specific use cases, and a list of constraints not satisfied by the current design hypothesis. I’ll begin by discussing quality attribute problems.

Link Roundup: September 1, 2010

Good morning,

Welcome to our August 31 link roundup. Here are some notable posts from other software engineering blogs that you may have recently missed:

Architectural Decisions: Accidental or On Purpose? by Christine Miyachi at The Abstract Software Architect. Christine talks about how she uses mind maps to keep track of architectural decisions.

The Emerging Future: Systems of Systems, an IBM webcast. Bruce Powel Douglass talks about issues and potential future solutions for systems of systems.

A Trace in the Sand, by Ruth Malan. Ruth was one of the turoial presenters at SATURN 2010, and her blog is full of great ideas on architecture.

Is Your Head in the Clouds? Or is it Elsewhere? by Harry J. Foxwell, PhD. Harry asks some important questions about if your organization is ready for cloud computing.