Software Patterns, Knowledge Maps, and Domain Analysis

Dr. Mohamed E. Fayad is currently a full professor of computer engineering at San Jose State University, from 2002 to present. He was a J.D. Edwards Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, from 1999 to 2002; an associate professor at the computer science and computer engineering faculty at the University of Nevada, from 1995 to 1999; and an editor-in-chief for IEEE Computer Society Press-Computer Science and Engineering Practice Press, from 1995 to 1997. He has 15+ years of industrial experience. Dr. Fayad is an IEEE distinguished speaker, an associate editor, editorial advisor, a columnist for the Communications of the ACM (Thinking Objectively), and a columnist for the Al-Ahram newspaper (two million subscribers); he was a general chair of IEEE/Arab Computer Society International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2001), Beirut, Lebanon, June 26-29, 2001; he is the founder of Arab Computer Society (ACS), being its president from April 2004 to April 2007.

Dr. Fayad is a known and well-recognized authority in the domain of theory and the applications of software engineering. Dr. Fayad was a guest editor on 12 theme issues: CACM's OO Experiences, October 1995; IEEE Computer's Managing OO Software Development Projects, September 1996; CACM's Software Patterns, October 1996; CACM's OO Application Frameworks, October 1997; ACM Computing Surveys-OO Application Frameworks, March 2000; IEEE Software-Software Engineering in-the-Small, September/October 2000; International Journal on Software Practice and Experiences, July 2001; IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation-Object-Oriented Methods for Distributed Control Architecture, October 2002; Annals of Software Engineering Journal-OO Web- Based Software Engineering, October 2002; Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, Software Arch