Center for Systems and
Software Engineering
Nenad Medvidovic
Director, CSSE
Computer Science Department
Viterbi School of Engineering
University of Southern California
neno@usc.edu
http://csse.usc.edu/~neno/
History and Mission
• CSE Established in 1993
• Merged in 2006 with SAE to form CSSE
• Intended to provide an environment for research and
teaching
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generic and domain specific software architectures
software engineering tools and environments
collaborative system design
the economics of software engineering
• Objective is to solve problem of academic as well as
industrial relevance
Affiliates
• Currently 34 industrial affiliates
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12 from commercial industry
8 from aerospace industry
6 from the Government
6 FFRDCs and Consortia
2 international
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– 3 visiting associates
– 5 university affiliates
• Two closely affiliated research centers
– SERC
– CAST
Academics
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Over 30 PhDs conferred since inception
MSCS with emphasis in SE
Graduate Certificate in SAE
Two Certificate and Advanced Degree
programs
– Systems and System-of-Systems Architecting
– Software Architecture
Focus Areas in Software Engineering
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Architecture
Economics
Process
Testing & analysis
Software Architecture Research
• Modeling
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xADL
UML
FSP
MTS
Crystal growth
• Analysis
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Reliability
Availability
Energy Consumption
Memory Usage
Latency
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Software Architecture Research
• Implementation
– Architectural frameworks/middleware
• Deployment
– QoS-based optimization
• Dynamic adaptation
– Policy-driven
• Architectural styles
• Software connectors
• Architectural recovery
– Syntactic vs. semantic
– Architectural smells
Software Architecture Research
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Hand-held computing
Embedded systems
WSNs
Robotics
Grid
Scientific computing
Biologically-inspired computing
Sample Project 1
MIDAS – Architecting Embedded and Mobile Systems
Sample Project 2
GLIDE – Revisiting the Architecture of the Grid
Sample Project 3
Mahjong – Emulating Crystal Growth on the Internet
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