Bruce W. Weide

Professor and Associate Chair

Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon University, 1978
B.S.E.E. University of Toledo, 1974

Research

The Reusable Software Research Group (RSRG), which I co-direct with Bill Ogden, Tim Long, and Stu Zweben, is part of the Software Engineering Group in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University. Our charter is to explore all aspects of component-based software engineering. Our approach involves a broad look at several related subareas: formal specification of functionality and performance, modular verification of correctness and efficiency of implementations, design of programming languages and systems, and adaptation of our RESOLVE technology to practice (originally in Ada, more recently in C++ and Java). Sponsors have included the National Science Foundation, Lucent Technologies, and Microsoft Research. Selected publications are listed below under "Publications"; see the RSRG Home Page for more details.

Teaching

With Tim Long, Paolo Bucci, and Wayne Heym, I am engaged in a long-term effort to integrate, into the undergraduate computer science curriculum, component-based software engineering principles developed through RSRG research activities. We have designed, developed, installed, and partially evaluated an innovative first-year undergraduate course sequence in software design and development for computer science and engineering students. The one-year sequence begins with an introduction to component-based software engineering, ends with an advanced case-study in design and analysis of reusable software components, and is completely integrated and unified in its philosophical and technical bases. We also are designing and implementing a suite of software tools, the software composition workbench, to assist students as they apply the principles and methodologies, taught in the course sequence, to the development of component-based software systems. The goal of these activities is to create the core of an instructional system capable of producing software professionals with greater awareness and understanding of the technical issues faced by tomorrow's software industry, and with measurably better software design and development skills. Publications about, and awards for, this course sequence are available through the SCE home page link below. Sponsors have included the National Science Foundation, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education, and Microsoft Research.

OSU CSE Software Component Engineering Course Sequence

A separate instructional project is a joint effort with Paul Sivilotti and Paolo Bucci of CSE and Furrukh Khan of Electrical and Computer Engineering. This involves a sequence of courses in "Applied Software Engineering" for engineers and scientists. The objective is for both CS students in software engineering, and upper-division and graduate engineering and science students in non-CS disciplines, to learn the practical concepts and skills that will make them immediately productive with the modern software technologies and tools used for software engineering in high-technology companies. Lucent Technologies has also sponsored part of this development.

OSU Applied Software Engineering Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization/Minor

Administration

I am Associate Chair of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, responsible for curricular and undergraduate mattters. Related activities involve chairing the Engineering College Committee on Academic Affairs.

Selected Publications on Component-Based Software Engineering Research

Weide, B.W., Ogden, W.F., and Zweben, S.H., "Reusable Software Components," Advances in Computers, Vol. 33, M. Yovits, ed., Academic Press, 1991, pp. 1-65. [PDF]
Harms, D.E., and Weide, B.W., "Copying and Swapping: Influences on the Design of Reusable Software Components," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 17, No. 5, May 1991, pp. 424- 435. [PDF]
Weide, B.W., Edwards, S.H., Harms, D.E., and Lamb, D.A., "Design and Specification of Iterators Using the Swapping Paradigm," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 8, August 1994, pp. 631-643. [PDF]
Weide, B.W., Odgen, W.F., and Sitaraman, M., "Recasting Algorithms to Encourage Reuse," IEEE Software, Vol. 11, No. 5, September 1994, pp. 80-88. [PDF] [corrected versions of the figures])
Sitaraman, M., and Weide, B.W., eds., "Special Feature: Component-Based Software Using RESOLVE," ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 19, No. 4, October 1994, pp. 21-67. [PDF; 6 papers/files]
Zweben, S.H., Edwards, S.H., Hollingsworth, J.E., and Weide, B.W., "The Effects of Layering and Encapsulation on Software Development Cost and Quality," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 21, No. 3, March 1995, pp. 200-208. [PDF]
Weide, B.W., Hollingsworth, J.E., and Heym, W.D., "Reverse Engineering of Legacy Code Exposed," Proceedings 17th International Conference on Software Engineering, ACM, April 1995, pp. 327-331. [PDF]
Weide, B.W., Edwards, S.H., Heym, W.D., Long, T.J., and Ogden, W.F., "Characterizing Observability and Controllability of Software Components," Proceedings Fourth International Conference on Software Reuse, IEEE, April 1996, pp. 62-71. [PDF]
Sitaraman, M., Weide, B.W., and Ogden, W.F., "On the Practical Need for Abstraction Relations to Verify Abstract Data Type Representations," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 23, No. 3, March 1997, pp. 157-170. [PDF]
Sitaraman, M., Weide, B.W., Long. T.J., and Ogden, W.F., "A Data Abstraction Alternative to Data Structure/Algorithm Modularization," in Jazayeri, M., Loos, R.G.K., and Musser, D., eds., Generic Programming, Springer-Verlag LNCS 1766, 2000, pp. 102-113. [PDF]
Sitaraman, M., Atkinson, S., Kulczycki, G., Weide, B.W., Long, T.J., Bucci, P., Heym, W.D., Pike, S., and Hollingsworth, J.E., "Reasoning About Software-Component Behavior," in Frakes, W.B., ed., Software Reuse: Advances in Software Reusability (Proceedings Sixth International Conference on Software Reuse), Springer-Verlag LNCS 1844, 2000, pp. 266-283. [PDF]
Hollingsworth, J.E., Blankenship, L., and Weide, B.W., "Experience Report: Using RESOLVE/C++ for Commercial Software," Proceedings ACM SIGSOFT Eighth International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ACM Press, 2000, pp. 11-19. [PDF]
Sitaraman, M., Long, T.J., Weide, B.W., Harner, E.J., and Wang, L., "A Formal Approach to Component-Based Software Engineering: Education and Evaluation", ICSE 2001: Proceedings 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE, 2001, pp. 601-609 [PDF]; a revised version appeared as Sitaraman, M., Long, T.J., Weide, B.W., Harner, J., and Wang, C., "Teaching Component-Based Software Engineering: A Formal Approach and Its Evaluation", Computer Science Education Journal 12, 1-2 (2002), 11-36. [CSE abstract]
Weide, B.W., "Component-Based Systems", in Marciniak, J.J., ed., Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, John Wiley and Sons, 2001, 9 pp. [ESE abstract] [PDF]
Sridhar, N., Weide, B.W., and Bucci, P., "Service Facilities: Extending Abstract Factories to Decouple Advanced Dependencies", in C. Gacek, ed., Software Reuse: Methods, Techniques, and Tools (Proceedings Seventh International Conference on Software Reuse), Springer-Verlag LNCS 2319, 2002, pp. 309-326. [PDF]
Sridhar, N., Pike, S.M., and Weide, B.W., "Dynamic Module Replacement in Distributed Protocols", Proceedings 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, IEEE, May 2003, 620-627. [PDF]
Edwards, S.H., Sitaraman, M., Weide, B.W., and Hollingsworth, J.E., "Contract-Checking Wrappers for C++ Classes", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 30, 11 (November 2004), 794-810. [PDF]

Contact Information

  Department of Computer Science and Engineering
  The Ohio State University
  2015 Neil Avenue
  Columbus, OH  43210-1277


  office: Dreese Lab 687
   phone: 614-292-1517
     FAX: 614-292-2911
   email: weide DOT 1 [that's the numeral one] AT osu DOT edu
     URL: http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~weide

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