Declarative Systems & Software Engineering Newsletter

Issue 22 - 24th April 1995

Editor - Stuart Maclean

Editorial

Stuart Maclean has taken over editing the DSSE newsletter from Hugh Glaser as of April 24.

The DSSE talk on Monday 24th April has been postponed until Monday 1st May due to an accreditation meeting taking place at 1.00 pm on the 24th. The rescheduled talk is entitled 'Tool Integration based on PCTE' by Stephen Hellberg.

Tool Integration based on PCTE
Stephen Hellberg

Abstract

Integration appears to be an increasing phenomena amongst current tool initiatives (either voluntarily or imposed) and one which is likely to continue in the future. The concepts embodied by `integration' all appear very positive. The term has all the advantages and disadvantages of denoting a familiar, positive concept ("the details of which can be sorted out latter by the people who will know just what we mean ...") which is easily deployed and equally applicable for use in technical or management contexts. However, what is integration? What do we integrate? And how?

This seminar will lead a discussion on integration seeking to raise awareness of how ill-defined the term is. We will present our experience of tool integration in the context of constructing a PCTE-based environment for the development of computaionally-intensive software for the applications of the scientific and engineering community. This work was conducted under the funding of the ESPRIT-3 project PPPE.

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Stuart Maclean
Declarative Systems & Software Engineering Group
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton