About the Authors Sidney C. Bailin is founder and president of Knowledge Evolution, Inc. Previously, he was a vice president of engineering at Computer Technology Associates, where he played a leading role in that company's software technology program. Dr. Bailin's 22 years of software experience ranges from the development of production real-time communications systems to R & D in information agents. He has been active in the software reuse community for the past 14 years, and is best known in that community for introducing the KAPTUR methodology, which links reuse to rationale capture. Mark A. Simos is founder of Synquiry Technologies, Ltd.
, a Boston-area software company developing advanced technology for agent-based metadata modeling and application composition. He has 20 years of experience in software engineering R & D, including more than a decade's experience consulting on strategic reuse and domain engineering to numerous commercial and government organizations. Mr. Simos was principal developer of Organization Domain Modeling (ODM), a leading domain engineering methodology, and co-authored several other reuse guidebooks under the auspices of the DARPA STARS program, including the original LIBRA report. Larry Levine has 20 years of experience in consultation, product development, and management research. He is co-creator of Whole System Design (WSD), an approach integrating changes to culture, work processes, and systems. Mr. Levine has led or collaborated on strategic change initiatives within numerous healthcare, high technology and technology-enabled workplaces, including New England Memorial Hospital, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens-Nixdorf, Rational Software, U.
S. DoD, New Brunswick Telephone (Canada), Shell Chemical, Shell Oil, L. L. Bean, Fidelity Investments, IBM, and EMC. Richard Creps, a senior staff applications software engineer with Lockheed Martin Corporation, has more than 23 years of commercial and defense-related software technology R & D experience. His technical leadership in software reuse and domain engineering on the DARPA STARS program culminated in the development of the original LIBRA report on which this book is based. Currently, Mr. Creps is applying his expertise to the development of advanced, collaborative military planning capabilities.