Software Architectures for Product Families

Dr. Frank van der Linden is project leader at Philips Medical Systems, since 1999. Before that time he was researcher at Philips Research Laboratories since 1984. He did his PhD. in Mathematics (Number Theory) at the University of Amsterdam between 1979 and 1984. His main interests are with software engineering and architecture. He was Philips project leader of the ESPRIT project 20.477, ARES (Architectural Reasoning for Embedded Systems) and is project leader of the ITEA projects 99005, ESAPS and ip00004, CAFÉ and the proposed project leader of the succeeding ITEA project ip02009, FAMILIES. He was the programme chair of five International Workshops on Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for System families, respectively in Las Navas in November 1996, Las Palmas in February 1998 and March 2000, Bilbao in October 2001, and Sienna in November 2003. These workshops are organised within ARES, ESAPS and CAFÉ. He is the editor of the proceedings of the second to fourth workshop (Springer LNCS 1429, 1951 and 2290). Moreover he is co-editor of the ARES experience book: Mehdi Jazayeri, Alexander Ran, Frank van der Linden, Software Architecture for System families, Principles and Practice, Addison Wesley, 2000.

Product Family Practice.- Component Frameworks for a Medical Imaging Product Family.- Meeting the Product Line Goals for an Embedded Real-Time System.- A Two-Part Architectural Model as Basis for Frequency Converter Product Families.- A Product Line Architecture for a Network Product.- Railway-Control Product Families: The Alcatel TAS Platform Experience.- Business.- Discussion Report "Business" Session.- PuLSE-BEAT - A Decision Support Tool for Scoping Product Lines.- Domain Potential Analysis: Calling the Attention on Business Issues of Product-Lines.- Dependency Navigation in Product Lines Using XML.- Product Family Concepts.- Summary of Product Family Concepts Session.- Software Connectors and Refinement in Family Architectures.- System Family Architectures: Current Challenges at Nokia.- Product Family Methods.- Product Family Methods.- Organizing for Software Product Lines.- A Comparison of Software Product Family Process Frameworks.- Issues Concerning Variability in Software Product Lines.- A First Assessment of Development Processes with Respect to Product Lines and Component Based Development.- Evolution.- Evolution of Software Product Families.- Product Family Techniques.- Product Family Techniques Session.- Beyond Product Families: Building a Product Population?.- Requirements Modeling for Families of Complex Systems.- Creating Product Line Architectures.- Extending Commonality Analysis for Embedded Control System Families.- Stakeholder-Centric Assessment of Product Family Architecture.- Surveys.- ESAPS - Engineering Software Architectures, Processes and Platforms for System Families.- Product-Line Engineering.