From: tholome@bangalore.esf.de (Eric Tholome)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: The Eureka Software Factory (presentation)
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:13:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: bangalor.9210061614.AA05827
Reply-To: tholome@bangalore.esf.de (Eric Tholome)
Organization: ESF Headquarters, Berlin, FRG

After I posted the invitation to our Seminar (to be held in Berlin in November)
in this newsgroup, I got many questions about the Eureka Software Factory
(ESF).

I've therefore decided to post the information, rather than mailing it to each
of the requesters, hoping that many of you would find some interest in reading
it. You will find below a short description of what ESF is all about.


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THE ESF CONSORTIUM

The ESF consortium, which comprises ten partners supported by five European
governments, represents different software "interest groups": computer
manufacturers, research institutes, CASE tool producers and system developers.
The consortium has the following members:

o	Cap Gemini Innovation (F)
o	Cap debis GEI, AEG (D)
o	Imperial College (UK)
o	INRIA (F)
o	Matra Marconi Space (F)
o	Sema Group (F,UK)
o	Softlab (D)
o	TeleSoft (S)
o	University of Dortmund (D)
o	University of Durham(UK)


THE ESF PROJECT

The ESF project is a European effort funded under the EUREKA program. It
started in November 1986 and its total workplan spans a period of 10 years. The
project is preparing the foundation for establishing software factories in
Europe: industrial scale facilities where the software production process is
subject to effective management control and effective capital investment. ESF
is focused on enabling technologies for building and evolving software
factories to manage the complex workflow of software development teams and to
support software componentry for more frequent software re-use. The project is
organised with a central management team, located in Berlin, and with
development activities carried out in subprojects undertaken by development
teams distributed across Europe. Currently there are 15 active subprojects and
since 1989 the total allocated effort has been over 200 man years per year. 

By the end of 1991, when half the project time had elapsed, project
achievements included the definition of a conceptual reference model (CoRe), a
reference architecture, first implementations of supporting frameworks, various
tools and tool prototypes and a number of pilot factory integration
experiments. For the second half of the project, focus is shifting towards
product development and introduction of factories in existing organisations.


THE EUREKA PROGRAMME

EUREKA, the European agency for research co-ordination, was founded in Paris in
May 1985 as a framework on which to base European co-operation in research and
technology projects. The aim is the long-term improvement of productivity and
competitiveness of the national economies of the member states. The means to
achieve the aim is the more efficient use of already existing research
capacities in both public and private sectors. 

There are twenty-one member states (European Community, EFTA, Turkey, Hungaria,
European Commission).

Funding is by all participants, EC research programmes and member countries.



						Eric

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