In November 2024 the convenor of Working Group 42 — the group within ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, Subcommittee 7, that writes the international standards on architecture — invited me to present the locality criterion to the working group’s 42nd meeting. The criterion, published with Rick Kazman at ICSE 2003 and developed in IEE Software in 2006, gives a precise test for what separates architectural design from detailed design.
The working group took it up. Two informative annexes of ISO/IEC/IEEE DIS 42024, Enterprise, systems and software — Architecture fundamentals, now draw on those two papers and cite them.
Status, August 2026: the draft has completed its enquiry ballot and is being prepared for the final draft ballot. Publication is expected in 2027.
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Article: “Precise Specification and Automatic Application of Design Patterns”
During 2012–13 the Software Engineering Institute awarded 203,470 USD from the LENS (Line-funded Exploratory New Starts) Fund to our project “Security Pattern Assurance through Round-trip Engineering“.
Between the years 1989–2010 my research has been supported by over 200,000 USD from the following bodies:
