Implementing and Integrating Product Data Management and Software Configuration Management

Ivica Crnkovic is a professor of software engineering at Mälardalen University, Sweden. A frequent contributor to the literature on component development and co-author of Building Reliable Component-Based Software Systems (Artech House, 2002), he has been co-organizer of IEEE conferences and workshops on software engineering and a program committee member of software configuration management symposia and workshops. He received his M.Sc. in electrical engineering and in theoretical physics and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Zagrab, Croatia. Ulf Asklund is an assistant professor at Lund University, Sweden, where he earned a Ph.D. in configuration management. A regular presenter at international conferences on software configuration management, he has organized workshops and a conference for the IEEE. Annita Persson Dahlqvist is a software configuration and product data manager for Ericsson, AB. She earned her B.Sc. in computer science from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. She has been a program committee member of software configuration management symposia and workshops and is a regular presenter at international conferences on software and system configuration management.