Bilkent Hosts Third Turkish Software Architecture Design Conference
On November 4 and 5, the Bilkent Software Engineering Group (Bilsen), led by Dr. Bedir Tekinerdoğan, organized the third biannual Turkish Conference on Software Architecture Design (UYMK 2010). The event took place in Mithat Çoruh Auditorium in the Faculty of Engineering Building. The conference had 280 registrants in total;70 percent of those registered were from industry.
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Prof. Levent Onural and Assistant Prof. Tekinerdoğan delivered opening addresses. The conference hosted two invited speakers from the software architecture design community. On the first day Dr. Muhammad Ali Babar from the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark presented his talk, entitled "Agility and Architecture: Why and How They Can Coexist?" The second day started with a talk Dr. Paul Clements, from the Software Engineering Institute, on the topic, "Evaluating The Software Architecture Competence of Organizations."
The conference included four interesting presentation sessions on the topics of software architecture design and documentation, model-driven software development, embedded systems, and software product line engineering.
Each day concluded with a two-hour panel discussion. On November 4, the panel "Software Architecture Design and Quality" was moderated by Dr. Ali Doğru from Middle East Technical University. The Panel members consisted of Cengiz Erbaş (Aselsan MGEO), Kıvanç Uslu (IBM Türkiye), Vedat Uslu (Siemens), Yasemin Seydim (TCMB), and Özgül Ünal Karakaş (TCMB). The November 5 panel, "Industrial Experiences and Obstacles in Software Product Line Engineering," was moderated by Dr. Tekinerdoğan. The panel members included Semih Çetin (Cybersoft), Özgü Özköse Erdoğan (Aselsan-Rehis), and Taner Aslan (Milsoft). The topic of software product line engineering was discussed for the first time in a scientific panel on software engineering.
Bilsen aims to organize three different workshops on the topic of aspect-oriented software development, software product line engineering, and global software development in the following year.