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EPSRC Reference:	EP/C004752/1
Title:	Relating software requirements and architectures
Principal Investigator:	Nuseibeh, Professor B
Other Investigators:	Kramer, Professor J Finkelstein, Professor A
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:	National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Department:	Computing
Organisation:	Open University
Scheme:	Overseas Travel Grants Pre-FEC
Starts:	17 June 2005	Ends:	16 November 2006	Value (£):	14,675
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Software Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Information Technologies
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Technology advances continue to be made at a rapid rate, with software lying at the heart of many of these advances. The structure of such sofware - its architecture - is a critical asset to most organisations that develop or use the software. For many organisations it is an expensive intellectual product, it is time consuming and financially expensive to develop, and its stability or reuse across different technologies is both desirable and valuable.Developing stable or reusable software architectures is hard. There are technical and organisation constraints that determine many of its characteristics. These constraints, however, need to be balanced by the need to accommodate changing requirements that customers and users demand. The challenge of many software development organisations is to balance this volatility in software requirements against the need for stability of its architecture. This project proposes to examine this balance, by examining the relationships between requirements and architectures, in order to provide guidelines for developers engaged in building software-based products in a changing world.The project itself is aimed at providing an opportunity to address the above issues in collaboration between UK and Japanese researchers (based in academia and industry). Through a number of visits by a UK delegation of researchers to Japanese organisations, and a subsequent meeting of all parties in a research workshop, the project aims to produce a technical research agenda in this area, and to explore specific collaborative projects between the UK and Japan to further the implementation of this research agenda.
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