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From: andyv@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Research Contacts
Message-ID: <657997277.449@minster.york.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Nov 90 17:01:18 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
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Hello ! 

I'm a first year graduate at the University of York, England, who is 
just starting work on a Ph.D. I'm looking to correspond with anybody 
out there who might be working in the area described below.

I'm basically interested in Architectural Design Methods/Notations for
software systems, hopefully incorporating the specification of so called
`Non-Functional Requirements'. This may involve the concept of separate
logical and physical architectures. 

For these purposes, an Architecture is taken to broadly represent the 
information that defines the structure of the system, its 
functionality, etc, in such a way that the system can be built.

I'm also hoping to look at how to model timing, performance, resource usage, 
concurrency and state (amongst other things !) within the context described
above.

If you're doing anything along these lines, I'd like to hear about it
and hopefully exchange a few ideas !   

Andy

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|Andy Vickers              |                                               |
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