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GMU C4I Center Seminar

Co-sponsor: Department of Information and Software Engineering

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Tomorrow's Needs--Yesterday's Technology
DOD's Architectural Dilemma & Plan for Resolution

Dr. Raymond Paul
Technical Director for Command and Control (C2) Policy
Office of the Secretary of Defense, Networked Information Infrastructure

Friday, February 17, 2006

ABSTRACT

As the Department of Defense (DoD) is moving rapidly towards Service-Oriented Computing (SOC), new challenges arise. SOC represents a new and emerging paradigm of computing. The new paradigm will affect every phase of system development and operation. This talk presents the impact of SOC on software architecture, specification languages, and engineering techniques.

BIO

As a professional electronics and software engineer, system developer, tester, and evaluator for the past 26 years, Dr. Paul has held many positions in the field of software engineering. Currently, Dr. Paul serves the as the technical director for command and control (C2) Policy. In this position, Dr. Paul is conducting research on policy oriented network management for command and control systems engineering development for objective, quantitative and qualitative measurements. Dr. Paul's current research focus is on a dynamic integrated theoretic approach to C2 networks from multiple levels from dyadic to global. Understanding multiple concepts, theories at multiple levels along with attributes of nodes and the links may provide insight to better understand C2 organizational networks that are created, maintained, and reconstituted.

Dr. Paul holds a doctorate in software engineering and is an active "Fellow" member of the IEEE Computer Society. He has published more than 74 articles on software engineering in various technical journals and symposia proceedings, primarily under DoD and IEEE sponsorship. He has authored chapters in 4 technical books concerning software engineering. He can be reached at .