Software Engineering and Autonomous Systems (SEAS)
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Coordinator
Members: Karl von Ellenrieder, Barbara Russo, Ilenia Fronza, Andrea Janes, Xiaofeng Wang, Eduardo Martins Guerra, Jorge Melegati
Description
Software Engineering and Autonomous Systems covers software and systems research across a broad range of interdisciplinary concerns in five areas:
- Dynamic Architecture and Systems (DAS): Analysis of structural and behavioral aspects of adaptive systems and architectures and their development in heterogeneous environments (IoT, Clouds, Embedded, …). Construction of controllers for intelligent resource management.
- Software Development and Quality (SDQ): Analysis and development of software to ensure performance, reliability and security of intelligent and cyber-physical systems. Extraction and analysis of software data from software archives (Mining Software and data Repository) and development of decision-making tools.
- Continuous Agile and Lean Process Innovation (CALPI): Development of methods and tools based on agile and lean approaches to improve integration and increasing continuity between software development and system operation. Applications of DevOps methods in software start-ups.
- Computing Education Research (CER): Research on all aspects of teaching and learning computing at all levels (from early education to professional contexts), focusing on software engineering education, pedagogical approaches, tools, and diversity.
- Field Robotics: Applied interdisciplinary research in nonlinear control and non-collocated shared control, motion planning and collision avoidance, simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM), autonomous navigation of ground and aerial vehicles in unstructured Alpine environments.
