Grant Larsen  IBM Rational Software, 10632 W. Ontario Avenue, Littleton, Colorado 80127 (gjlarsenus.ibm.com). Mr. Larsen is currently the chief architect for asset management for IBM Rational Software. He received a B.S. degree from Brigham Young University in 1988. He works with the asset-based development strategies through process, standards, tooling, and reusable assets. Mr. Larsen has been a member of the group that developed the Reusable Asset Specification (RAS), recently adopted as a standard by Object Management Group, Inc. At Rational Software he was a member of the UML committee for Rational and composed portions of that specification. Mr. Larsen has published several journal articles, has been a guest editor, and has contributed to other books on frameworks and related technologies.