Design Technology of Product Line Architecture for Software Globalization

Abstract Software globalization is the supporting process of adapting computer software to different country and culture. Most efforts for software globalization have been focused on the development of software implementation techniques or tools. However, global software sold worldwide has different requirements implied by different contexts, and the difference of requirements may derive different architectural design. In this paper, we define such architectural design knowledge as knowledge models and propose a method for developing and using the knowledge models for software globalization. Also we use set-top box middleware systems for digital data broadcast to validate the applicability of the proposed models and methods. Key Words : Software globalization, product line architecture, design knowledge model, architectural design method, digital data broadcast. * 정회원, 한성대학교 정보시스템공학과접수일자: 2013년 2월 15일, 수정완료 2013년 3월 15일 게재확정일자: 2013년 4월 12일 Received: 15 Feburary 2013/ Revised: 15 March 2013 /Accepted: 12 April 2013