Domain Engineering

Domain Engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with building reusable assets, such as specification sets, patterns, and components, in specific domains. A domain in this context can be defined as an area of knowledge that uses common concepts for describing phenomena, requirements, problems, capabilities, and solutions. The purpose of domain engineering is to identify, model, construct, catalog, and disseminate artifacts that represent the commonalities and differences within a domain. Nowadays, although having slightly different origins, both domain engineering methods and domain specific languages (DSL) receive special attention from the information systems and software engineering communities. The reasons for the increased level of interest include: the need to manage increasing requirements for variability of information and software systems (reflecting variability in customer requirements), the need to minimize accidental complexity when modeling the variability of a domain, and the need to obtain, formalize, and share expertise in different, evolving domains. Domain engineering as a discipline has practical significance as it can provide methods and techniques that may help reduce time-to-market, product cost, and projects risks on one hand, and help improve product quality and performance on a consistent basis on the other hand.

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Useful Links		Events
http://www.iturls.com/English/SoftwareEngineering/SE_ej.asp
http://www.splc.net/		Event Name	Event Location	Event Date	Status
		Variability@ER'11	Brussels, Belgium	Oct. 31st - Nov. 3rd, 2011
		DsE@CAiSE'11	London, UK	June 20, 2011
		DE@ER'10	Vancouver, Canada	November 3rd, 2010	√
		DE@CAiSE'10	Hammamet, Tunisia	June 8th, 2010	√
		DE@CAiSE'09	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	June 9th, 2009	√