Handbook of Software Engineering

Prof. Kyo-Chul Kang started a research career in software engineering at the University of Michigan in 1976 where he studied requirements engineering. He was a member of the team developing PSL/PSA, the first ever requirements modeling and analysis technology and also the first CASE (computer-aided software engineering) environment. Prof. Kang had a chance to learn many industrial software engineering methods. The PSL/PSA technology evolved into the Meta Modeling concept, which is now widely practiced in the software engineering community. He moved to Bell Communications Research and then to Bell Labs, where he conducted research on software reuse. At Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University he continued his research on software reuse. Along with team members Prof. Kang developed a method called FODA (Feature-Oriented Domain Analysis) at the SEI, which is now a de facto standard technique for domain analysis in the context of software reuse and product line engineering. The citation count based on Google Scholar now goes over 2500. He served as steering committee members of several international conferences and workshops and also served as a general chair and program committee member of many international conferences and workshops. He reviews over 50 papers per year for conferences and journals, and thus has a wide contact with international researchers.