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Software Engineering (SU) group at IDI,
status and future plans
IDI planning seminar
10 May 2010, hotell Prinsen, Trondheim
SU faculty: Reidar Conradi, Monica Divitini,
Letizia Jaccheri, Tor Stålhane, Alf Inge Wang,
Parastoo Mohagheghi, Sobah A. Petersen, Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland
http://www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/su/oss/su-idiplanseminar-10may10.ppt
conradi@idi.ntnu.no
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FYI: IDI Department at NTNU
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IDI (2009): 135 employees, NTNU’s largest – 31 nationalities!
45+ teachers (faculty w/ six women), 22 tech./adm., 55 PhD fellows, 20 temporary
researchers/postdocs/teachers incl. 8 adjunct teachers (II’ere).
6000 individual exams per year, 800 full-time students, participating in 7 study
programs.
125 master candidates and 10 PhD candidates per year.
Important value chain: teachers –> postdocs –> PhD candidates –> master
candidates -> bachelor candidates – all important for innovation in IT industry.
11 research groups, incl. SE group below.
Counting ”Frida” publications: 196/274 in 2007, 184/255 in 2008, 223/241 in 2009.
Budgets 2008: 74.8 MNOK from NTNU + 23.3 MNOK by projects.
Budgets 2009: 80.1 MNOK from NTNU + 26.0 MNOK by projects.
Software engineering (SE) group in 2009:
– 5+3*0.2 = 5.6 teachers, 5 researchers, 17 PhD fellows – 13 nationalities!!
– All papers: 44/61(#counting/#all in 2007), 40/47 (2008), 45/56 (2009); i.e. 25 % of
IDI total, ca. 20 each year w/ foreign colleagues; 500 papers in last 10 years.
– Ca. 25 master candidates/year; 3 PhDs in 2009, 4 planned in 2010.
– 7 MNOK in external projects (40% of IDI total.)
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Research fields of the SU group
OSS/COTS: CBSE,
Evolution, SCM
Software
quality
Software reuse and
architecture
Reliability,
safety, maintainability
SPI, learning
organisations,
SE education
Co-operative
work
Software and
Art; Computer
games
Distributed
Software Engin.
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Mobile
Tech. for Learning
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Current Research profile of SU faculty
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Empirical research methods (all members)
Quality, QA, SPI, knowledge management (Conradi, Stålhane)
Reliability and safety, testing (Stålhane)
Software reuse, component-based development, open source /
digital content (Conradi, Jaccheri)
Methodology for Service engineering (Mohagheghi)
Model-driven development (Mohagheghi)
Cooperation technologies, learning. awareness, virtual 3D
(Divitini, Prasolova-Førland; Petersen)
Mobile and ambient technology (Divitini, Wang)
Computer games for higher learning (Wang)
Software and art (Jaccheri)
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Research projects in SU group
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EVISOFT on Industrial SPI, NFR BiA, 2006-2010 (Conradi, Stålhane)
NordicOSS network, Nordforsk, 2009-2012 (Conradi)
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CESAR on Software Safety, EU IP, 2009-2013 (Stålhane)
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LIKT (”Læring med IKT”) research activities like MOTUS, NTNU, 2005-2012 (Divitini)
FABULA. NFR VERDIKT, 2008-2012 (Divitini)
ASTRA on awareness during cooperation, EU FET, 2007-2010 (Divitini)
TESEO, future umbrella project in cooperation technologies (Divitini)
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MOSS on MObile and Social gameS, NTNU, 2008-2012 (Wang)
Lecture games, NTNU, 2008-2012 (Wang, Trætteberg)
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3D VR, LIKT NTNU, 2010-2011: Virtual Campus, Virtual Forskningstorg, Virtual Eidsvoll;
Two EU projects: TARGET, Travel in Europe, 2009-2011 (all Prasolova-Førland)
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SART on Software and ART, IDI, 2006-2014 (Jaccheri)
Art and Technology - ArTe www.artentnu.com, May 2009 - March 2010, NFR Proreal program (Jaccheri)
KKK: Komputer + Kunst = Kreativitet, 2010, Norw. Culture Council (Jaccheri)
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REMICS, EU STREP on cloud computing, 2010-2013 (Mohagheghi)
Migration to services, internal SINTEF project (Mohagheghi)
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Enterprise modeling and cooperation (Sobah A. Petersen)
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EVISOFT for industry SPI (Conradi et al.)
• EVISOFT, NFR BiA, 2006-2010, 8 MNOK/year.
• Experience-based SPI in Norwegian IT industry. 4th
similar project in a row.
• Telematikk IKT in T.heim (coord.) + 10 companies +
SINTEF, UiO, and NTNU as research partners.
• Focus: Scrum, testing and defect analysis, use-case
based estimation.
• Faculty: Reidar Conradi, Tor Stålhane.
• Resarcher: Jingyue Li (”Bill”)
• PhD students: Geir Kjetil Hanssen (agile methods),
Børge Haugset (acceptance testing) - both SINTEF.
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NordicOSS network
• Nordic Council network project, 2009-2012, 1.2 MNOK, only for
travel and meetings, 7 partners.
• U. Skövde (coord. Björn Lundell), U. Uppsala, ITU in
Copenhagen, NTNU in Norway (Conradi), U. Iceland in
Reykjavik, TU Tampere, Business School in Helsinki.
• Try to initiate common research in OSS: joint papers, new
projects especially from EU, workshops and similar events.
• 7 meetings planned: Tampere 29.9 2009, Oslo 21.4.2010, next
in Uppsala in Oct. 2010.
• Affiliated: PhD stud. Øyvind Hauge, postdoc Daniela S. Cruzes.
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Open Source follow-up (Conradi et al.)
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Many EU and NFR projects around software reuse and CBSE, versioning,
software maintenance, QA and SPI since 1990. Now focus on Open Source
Software.
Norsk COSI, 2006-2008, ITEA2 and NFR BiA. Industrial adoption of Open
Source Software in European ICT industry. Totally 8.5 MNOK. Contact: Reidar
Conradi, prev. PhD students/researchers: Carl F. Sørensen, Sven Ziemer,
Øyvind Hauge.
PhD student: Odd Petter Nord Slyngstad (SEVO project on software evolution);
revised thesis in June 2010.
Several case studies on OSS in Norwegian industry (2003-2010): Telenor IS,
Nokia, BBS (planned), many comprehensive COTS/OSS surveys in Norway,
Europe and China.
Researcher: Jingyue Li, Postdoc: Daniela S. Cruzes.
Much coop. with Polytechnic Univ. Catalonia, Politecnico di Torino, and more.
NordicOSS academic network: strategic meeting place.
Applying to NFR-VERDIKT program about research projects in cooperation with
Norwegian industry and foreign colleagues …
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Open Source Software, OSS: future
research (Conradi et al.)
• Prediction of quality attributes (safety, reliability, …) of
software systems composed of a mixture of internal
and OSS/COTS components.
• Situated selection of OSS/COTS components w/
requirements (re)negotiation.
• From linear to networked system development.
• Open innovation: new innovation models.
• Idea: combine OSS research with SU research on
cooperation technology + work on software QA/SPI
and reliability/safety.
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TESEO (Divitini et al.) – research effort
on TEchnologies for Social interaction,
lEarning, and cOoperation
A service-centric, user-driven view
TESEO
Cooperation
Technologies
Ubiquitous
Computing
ICT and
Learning
A device-centric, technologydriven view
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TESEO (Divitini et al.): projects
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MOTUS, mobile technologies in higher education, PhD student Birgit R. Krogstie
(21.6) + 2y LIKT postdoc.
ASTRA, EU FET, 2007-2010, pervasive awareness systems and EUD, ca. 55 PM.
FABULA, NFR-VERDIKT, 2008-2012: mobile services in cities for learning. Four PhD
students: Mamdouh Eljueidi, Surya Baradur Kathayat (ITEM), Basit Ahmed Khan,
Ilaria Canova Calori + 2y postdoc Chengzhi Liu + [associated 1y ERCIM postdoc
Chiara Rossitto].
EUD of ubiquitous collaborative systems, 2010-2014, IME mobility, 1 PhD student:
Alfredo Perez Fernandez.
Ubicollab, platform for ubiquitous collaborative systems, internal Open Source
project.
Context-awareness in collaborative mobile systems, 2010-2013, IDI, PhD student:
Simone Mora.
NordicLEAF, NordForsk network, social and mobile technologies for learning.
??New EU IP under negotiation, 2010-2014, locally 44 PM, attn/ Birgit R. Krogstie.
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Teseo: future research (Divitini et al.)
• Continue research in core areas, cf. new projects.
• Extension to EU’s AAL program (focus: well-being, not
medical care).
• Some cooperative projects in the core areas are under
consideration with focus on schools and participative
cultures to promote sustainable future.
• Increase dissemination activities.
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Software and Art (Jaccheri)
• SART - Software and Art, 2006-2014, internal IDI project: PhD
student Salah Uddin Ahmed finishes in Aug. 2010; PhD student
Agnieszka Pokrywka starts in Aug. 2010.
• ITovation, 2008-2010, annual one-day workshop at NTNU on
Innovation, IT and Open Source.
• Art and Technology - ArTe www.artentnu.com, May 2009 - March
2010, NFR Proreal program.
• KKK: Komputer + Kunst = Kreativitet, 2010, Norw. Culture
Council.
• www.letiziajaccheri.com: info on dissemination activities, art
projects, blogging etc.
• Research interests: software and art, open source, empirical
methods, didactics of informatics, and more.
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REMICS, REuse and Migration of legacy
applications to Interoperable Cloud Services
(Parastoo Mohagheghi, SINTEF)
• New EU STREP project, Sept. 2010-2013.
• 7 partners from 4 countries; SINTEF coord. and research partner.
• Model-driven methodologies and tools for migration of legacy
systems to cloud.
• SINTEF focus on ServiceCloud and model-driven interoperability.
• Also internal project on migration of legacy systems to service
engineering. Thus focus on software reuse in both projects.
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3D-VR for learning (Prasolava-Førland)
• LIKT NTNU program for Computer-assisted learning
(adminstered by SVT faculty), two EU projects.
• Contact person: Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland (LIKT
and two EU-projects)
• One PhD student: Mikhail Fominykh (2007-2010;
shared with SVT faculty).
• Future research: Virtual Campus, 3D educational
virtual worlds, serious games
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Software safety and reliability, testing
(Stålhane)
• CESAR, EU IP, 2009-2013, 40+ partners: Software safety in
transportation sector.
• Contacts: Tor Stålhane, Guttorm Sindre (partly).
• Postdoc: Inah Omoronyia.
• Two affiliated PhD students: Vikash Katta (2009), Anca Deak
(2010).
• Old PhD students: Torgrim Lauritsen, Jianyun Zhou.
• Also activitiy on defect analysis and effort estimation in EVISOFT
project (2006-2010, NFR-BiA)
• Future research: models for expressing and analyzing safety
requirements, root-cause analysis of software defects, post-mortem
analysis.
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Computer Games (Alf Inge Wang et al.)
• MOSS: MObile and Social GameS, 2008-2012, NTNU:
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Two PhD students: Hong Guo and Meng Zhu,
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main advisor: Alf Inge Wang.
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• Lecture Games, 2008-2012, NTNU, main advisor: Hallvard
Trætteberg: +??
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One PhD student: Bian Wu (”Oscar”).
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• Future research: Software architecture for computer games,
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