4 Biography

Dean Allemang completed his PhD at The Ohio State University in 1990 applying functional representation to software. Between 1990 and 1995, he worked at the University of Zurich, the Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligencia Artificiale in Lugano, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne on knowledge acquisition and case-based reasoning for expert systems. He completed his tour of Switzerland with a year and a half at the Research and Development Division of Swiss Telecom, where, among other projects, he worked with Beat Liver on functional representation of software. In 1996, he joined Organon Motives where he contributed a chapter on knowledge acquisition to the ODM guidebook. His recent work has focused on the use of functional representations of software in the capture of design rationale information for software evolution.