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Motivation |
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System families are strategic assets, which can
be used for European advancement. Prime export products are based
on system families and, as the importance of technology increases,
most of those products have become information intensive. The
structuring of systems into families allows for sharing design
effort and as such counters the impact of ever growing complexity.
This makes it possible to sustain, even increase, the rate of
product introduction. The companies participating in this consortium
have investigated and developed technology for system families
now for seven years and experiences gained so far are very significant.
In particular, they were involved in the ITEA projects ESAPS,
and CAFÉ, focussed on a similar subject. This has lead
to a recognized European community on the subject of System Family
Engineering. The community presently has leadership over its American
Counterpart, the SEI Product-Line Initiative. The FAMILIES project
aims at growing the community, consolidating results into fact-based
management for the practices of FAMILIES and its preceding projects,
and to explore fields that were not covered in the previous projects,
in order to complete the Framework.
FAMILIES is a next project in a sequence of Projects: |
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is the finalising project in a row, following ESAPS and CAFÉ.
It concentrates upon maturity, institutionalisation, business relevance,
standardisation and dissemination. Within CAFÉ, we introduced
BAPO as important paradigm leading development concerns. We proposed
that the subsequent projects shift their focus Business Architecture
Process Organisation Business ... . During the execution of CAFÉ,
we found that earlier addressed BAPO concerns remain relevant and
they all need attention. Within FAMILIES, we therefore address the
complete set of BAPO issues. |
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work in FAMILIES will lead to: |
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A reuse economics framework, to deal with
the questions on when, why and how a family approach has
to be introduced. It is accompanied with a decision model,
checklists and questionnaires.
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Work package 1:
Reuse economics, Fact-based business and organisation maturity.
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A family maturity model, which will complement
the CMM and CMMI maturity models.
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Work package 2:
Family maturity, Fact-based process maturity, and consolidated
tool requirements.
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Patterns, styles and rules related to satisfaction
of business related quality requirements in the family,
accompanied by quality models, supporting processes, check
lists, questionnaires and approaches towards standardisation
of quality of service requirements.
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Work package 3:
Family quality, Fact-based architecture maturity.
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A methodology (process, tools, guidelines,
and examples) supporting the separation of the domain aspects,
the technical aspects (quality of services) and the technological
aspects (platforms) in consistent models, in the MDA standardisation
frame.
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Work package 4:
Model driven family engineering.
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Extending reuse over larger parts of the
organization, introducing an integrated approach to combine
existing legacy assets into a family, or even to a system
population.
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Work package 5:
Families integration, Exploring reuse over family boundaries.
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Impact |
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In the context of projects such as ESAPS and CAFÉ, significant
research results have been obtained in the area of System Family
Engineering, with limited applications in pilot projects.
For example the number and quality of scientific articles appeared
in the Special issue of IEEE Software dedicated to Software Product
Lines (4 out of 6 articles are from Europe), demonstrates our
maturity on this subject. Another example is the establishment
of a regular System Family Engineering Conference in Europe (it
is at its 5 th edition next year, while in the USA it is only
at the 2 nd edition).
The challenge is now to transfer the results obtained so far,
to a greater scale. Europe has a weak culture for transferring
and exploiting research results due to a fragmentation of the
efforts and a lack of adequate packaging of such results for industrial
deployment. The FAMILIES project is primarily aimed at addressing
the institutionalisation of System Family Engineering in the European
industry. This will be achieved by getting European influence
in standardisation bodies, structuring and road mapping the System
Family Engineering and management practices in a maturity framework
and working together with European tool vendors to enable a System
Family Engineering tool mark et.. The publication of books, the
organisation of workshops and conferences and the publications
in journals and at conferences support the FAMILIES approach as
a de-facto standard.
The project has a specific work package, WP6 that takes care
of exploitation and dissemination.
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