I'm inclined to go to that thesis defense. Sounds
quite interesting :)

-s

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "MONKIEWICZ Halina" <halina@cs.concordia.ca>
To: <csseminar@cs.concordia.ca>; <khendek@ece.concordia.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 1:14 PM
Subject: [General] master thesis defence, Xin Shen, Wed. March 27, 16:00, H 601

> MASTER  THESIS  DEFENCE
> 
> 
> SPEAKER: Xin Shen
> 
> TITLE: An Architecture Tradeoff Analysis of PostgreSQL 
> System
> 
> DATE: Wednesday, March 27, 2002
> 
> TIME: 16:00
> 
> PLACE: H 601
> 
> 
> ABSTRACT
> 
> 
> The Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method(ATAM) was develped by R.Kazman, M.Klein 
> and P.Clements to evaluate early architectural decisions of software\ development 
> in terms of quality attributes to avoid expensive architectural mistakes. 
> 
> PostgreSQL developed in the University of California was a pioneer of many modern 
> RDBMS systems. It is now an open source project.  
> 
> We applied ATAM to the postgreSQL project in light of identifying the 
> architectural features and possible pitfalls in the architecture of similar DBMS 
> systems. The result shows that we identifed some sensitive points, tradeoff 
> points and risks of postgreSQL although we did have some difficulties when 
> extracting precise quality attributes. This work proves the effectiveness of 
> ATAM method and explores the possible way to use ATAM on general purpose software.


Fri, 15 Mar 2002 13:49:21 -0500
"Serguei Mokhov" <mokhov@cs.concordia.ca>
FYI: Fw: [General] master thesis defence, Xin Shen, Wed. March 27,
	16:00, H 601