computer scientist
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, Professor of Software Engineering at the
University of Groningen
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and at
Chalmers University of Technology
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, and IT consultant, particularly known for his work on
software architecture
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...
.Bass, Len. ''Software architecture in practice.'' Pearson Education India, 2007.
Biography
Bosch received his MSc in computer science in 1991 from the
University of Twente
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, and in 1995 his PhD degree in computer science from
Lund University
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In 1994 Bosch got appointed Professor of Software Engineering at the
Blekinge Institute of Technology
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, and in 2000 he moved to the
University of Groningen
The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen in ...
, where he became Professor of Software Engineering. Since 2011 he is also Professor of Software Engineering at
Chalmers University of Technology
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.
In 2004 Bosch became also Vice President and the Head of Laboratory at the
Nokia
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Research Center, and from 2007 to 2011 he Vice President Engineering Process at
Intuit
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. In 2011 he co-founded the consultancy firm Boschonian AB, where he is partner.
Selected publications
* Bosch, Jan. ''Design and use of software architectures: adopting and evolving a product-line approach.'' Pearson Education, 2000.
* Bosch, Jan. ''Speed, Data, and Ecosystems: Excelling in a Software-Driven World.'', CRC Press 2016.
Articles, a selection:
* Aksit, M., Wakita, K., Bosch, J., Bergmans, L., & Yonezawa, A. (1994). Abstracting object interactions using composition filters " In ''Object-Based Distributed Programming'' (pp. 152-184). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
* Van Gurp, Jilles, Jan Bosch, and Mikael Svahnberg. On the notion of variability in software product lines " ''Software Architecture, 2001. Proceedings. Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on.'' IEEE, 2001.
* Bengtsson, P., Lassing, N., Bosch, J., & van Vliet, H. (2004). Architecture-level modifiability analysis (ALMA). Journal of Systems and Software, 69(1), 129-147.
* Svahnberg, Mikael, Jilles Van Gurp, and Jan Bosch. A taxonomy of variability realization techniques " ''Software: Practice and Experience'' 35.8 (2005): 705-754.
* Hartmann, H., Trew, T., Bosch, J., 2012. The changing industry structure of software development for consumer electronics and its consequences for software architectures. Journal of Systems and Software 85, 178–192. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2011.08.007.
Investments
Jan Bosch is also an angel investor in several Scandinavian companies includin Remente and Fidesmo in Sweden, an Kosli in Norway.