Author Biography

Clements, Dr. Paul

 

 

Biographical Notes

Dr. Paul Clements is a senior member of the technical staff

at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute,

where he has worked for nine years leading or co-leading projects in software product line engineering, software architecture documentation, and software architecture analysis.

Clements is the co-author of three practitioner-oriented books

about software architecture: "Software Architecture in Practice"

(1998, second edition due in May 2003), "Evaluating Software

Architectures: Methods and Case Studies" (2001), and "Documenting Software Architectures: View and Beyond" (2002). He also co-wrote "Software Product Lines: Practices and Patterns" (2001), and was co-author and editor of "Constructing Superior Software" (1999). In addition, Clements has also authored dozens of papers in software engineering reflecting his long-standing interest in the design and specification of challenging software systems.

He received a B.S. in mathematical sciences in 1977, and a

M.S. in computer science in 1980, both from the University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a Ph.D. in computer

sciences from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994.