Declarative Systems & Software Engineering
Newsletter
Editor - Stuart Maclean
Contents:
- Editorial
- Today's Seminar
No news (is bad news).
The DSSE talk for Monday 1st May is entitled 'Tool Integration based on
PCTE' by Stephen Hellberg. The talk is at 1.00pm in the DSSE lab (MB
3057). All welcome.
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.
Copy deadline: 5pm Friday for Monday's newsletter, but send the articles
any time.
Hugh Glaser
Declarative Systems & Software Engineering Group
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton