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Projects
- Adaptive Service Agreement and Process Management in Services Grid
Funded by DEST, this project involves collaboration with DSTO, Telstra, Everyday Interactive Networks, University of Queensland, Victoria University of
Technology and the EU Adaptive Services Grid Consortium. It focuses on
enabling flexible, dynamic and robust management of service-oriented application
provision processes that are not available in the current generation of
services environments. In particular it aims at developing new techniques
and software tools for the adaptive service agreement and process management
in order to ensure collective functionality, end-to-end QoS, stateful coordination
and adaptive provision of complex services. The adaptive service agreement
management includes automated service agreement negotiation, lifecycle
management, monitoring and profiling, and dynamic re-negotiation. The adaptive
service process management includes adaptive process enactment, QoS process
monitoring and visualisation, and mediated workflow re-planning. The project
targets three different application areas of telecommunication services,
smart information environments and multimedia services represented by the
Australian industry and government partners.
Participants:
Ryszard Kowalczyk
Jun Han
James Lin
Jun Yan
Albert Yu
Jian Ying Zhang - Compatible Interactions between Software Components
A key issue in composing software systems from independently developed
components is how to ensure that the software components interact with
each other in the context of the composite system without violating the
original interaction intentions of the individual components. The
interaction intentions of the components are their interaction protocols.
This project aims to develop a formal and practical notation for specifying
the component interaction protocols, and to develop associated techniques
and automatic tools for design-time compatibility checking of component
interaction protocols and run-time validation of component interactions
against protocol specifications.
Participants:
Jun
Han
Yan
Jin
Zheng
Li
Andrew Russo
Manh Tan Phan
Ksze
Kae Ker - Effective Management of Systems Requirements and System Architectures
This is a joint research project with University College London, UK
National Air Traffic Services (NATS) and Nanjing University of Aeronautics
and Astronautics. This project aims to develop practical techniques and
tool support for the component-based management of system requirements,
system architectures and their traceability. A start-up kit for software
systems engineering projects has been developed, including an information
model, a process guide, a set of document templates and associated tool
support. The kit has been used in "live" projects at NATS. Current research
focuses on improving the approach and tool and on implementing them with
the XML technology.
Participants:
Jun
Han
Chan Kai Tan
Jie Wu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Wolfgang
Emmerich, University College London, UK
Anthony
Finkelstein, University College London, UK
David
Bush, National Air Traffic Services, UK
- Empirical Study into the Architectural Impact of Object-Oriented Software Evolution
In this project, we aim to identify and examine the impact of
object-oriented software evolution on the system architecture, by studying
and analysing at the source code level the successive versions of a number
of large-scale object-oriented software systems. The key research issues
include selection and definition of architectural metrics, collection and
analysis of metrics data from the targeted data set, and identification
of architectural evolution patterns.
Participants:
Rajesh
Vasa
Jean-Guy
Schneider
Jun
Han
- Enterprise System Architectures
This is a joint research project with the Australian Defence Science
and Technology Organisation (DSTO), and Nanjing University of Aeronautics
and Astronautics, China. The architecture of an organisation's enterprise
systems form a key part of the organisation's strategic asset. As
such, it needs to be managed and leveraged to support the organisation's
business objectives. This project aims to develop a framework for the representation
and management of enterprise system architectures. The framework provides
the basis for an enterprise architecture repository, which is essential
to facilitate architecture practice in large organisations.
Participants:
Jun
Han
Antony
Tang
Pin Chen, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia
Jie Wu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
- Enterprise System Integration and Evolution
This project continues from our research into enterprise system architectures,
with a particular focus on leveraging enterprise system architectures in
facilitating the integration and evolution of enterprise systems. Key issues
addressed include enterprise system evolution scenarios, system interoperability
analysis, and enterprise system architecture solutions. Results from these
areas form the core of an automated environment/tool for enterprise integration
and evolution.
Participants:
Jun
Han
Pin Chen, Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Australia
Jie Wu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
- Forms: A Formal Foundation for Software Composition
Component-oriented software is an increasingly accepted technology
where applications are built as conglomerations of interacting software
components. However, existing component models and environments do not
fulfill all the needs of software developers, and the lack of an appropriate
foundation for specifying the semantics of components and compositional
abstractions has been identified as one of the main issues. In collaboration
with the Department of Computer Science of Iowa State University, this
project tackles this problem by defining a suitable formal foundation for
software composition. In particular, we further develop the notion of forms,
a special variant of immutable extensible records, and integrate forms
into a process calculus. It is expected that the resulting formalism will
have the required expressive power to solve the problems of adequately
specifying the semantics of components and compositional abstractions.
Participants:
Jean-Guy
Schneider
Markus
Lumpe, Computer Science Department, Iowa State University, USA
- Ontogenic Adaptation using Role-based Architecture
As modern computing environments become more open, distributed and
pervasive, the software we build for those dynamic environments will need
to become more adaptable and adaptive. This project is developing
an object meta-model and software architecture based on the concept of
ontogenic adaptation. The key to ontogenic adaptation is the maintenance
of organisational integrity in the midst of structural change and component
interchange. The meta-model facilitates the elaboration of organisational
descriptions using different types of role. Management roles (control)
and functional roles (process) are distinguished. An adaptive software
architecture based on the loose-coupling and late-binding such roles and
objects is being developed. Design and
implementation language mechanisms supporting such an architecture
are also being developed.
Participants:
Alan Colman
Lorraine Johnston
Jun Han
Karola von Baggo
- Performance Engineering for Component-Based Software
Performance is a key attribute of software systems, especially of real-time
and embedded systems. As these systems are increasingly built from
software components/packages, there is a great need in knowing the performance
properties of the software components and being able to analyse the performance
properties of the composite systems built using these components. This
project aims to develop a model for (1) characterising the performance
properties of software components from an interface perspective, and (2)
analysing the performance properties of component-based software
systems. The model forms the basis of performance interface specification
for software components and that of performance analysis for component-based
systems.
Participants:
Ksze
Kae Ker
Jun
Han
Ahmad
Kayed
Jean-Guy
Schneider
- Security Engineering for Component-Based Software
Security is an important attribute of software systems, especially
of open distributed software systems. As systems are increasingly assembled
from software components/packages, there is an urgent need in being able
to know the security properties of the software components and to deduce
such properties of the composite systems assembled from these components.
This project aims to develop a model for (1) characterising the security
properties of software components from an interface perspective, and (2)
analysing the security properties of component-based software systems.
The model forms the basis of security interface specification for software
components and that of security analysis for component-based systems.
Participants:
Jun
Han
Ryszard
Kowalczyk
Artem
Vorobiev
Khaled
Khan, Monash University and University of Western Sydney, Australia
Yuliang
Zheng, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
- Rich Service Registry (Funding: ARC, CA; Partners: CA; Duration: Three years)
Funded by the ARC and CA, this project investigates the next generation of service registries, which will be the centre piece for future enterprise information systems. It supports services management at both design- and run-time.
Participants
Jun Han
Jean-Guy Schneider
Tim Ebringer
Rick Harvey
Tony Rogers
Tan Manh Phan
Research Fellow (vacancy)
PhD Student (vacancy) - Proactive Maintenance (Funding: AutoCRC; Partners: Holden; Duration: 3+ years)
Funded by the AutoCRC, this project investigates software technologies that will increase cars' design quality and reduce their maintenance costs.
Participants
Jun Han
Chengfei Liu
Jean-Guy Schneider
Antony Tang
James Lin
Nikhil Alave
Research Fellow (vacancy) - Enterprise Systems Simulation Environment (Funding: CA; Partners: CA; Duration: 3 years)
Funded by CA, this project aims to develop a similation environment for enterprise systems, to allow the large-scale testing of interoperating enterprise systems.
Participants
Jun Han
Jean-Guy Schneider
Tim Ebringer
Cameron Hine - Towards the Next Generation of Composition Languages
In recent years, component-oriented software technology has become
the major approach to facilitate the development of evolving systems. However,
experience has shown that existing component models and environments do
not fulfil all the needs of open systems development as they generally
only focus on specialized application domains, lack precise semantics for
specifying components and compositional abstractions, and do not allow
for automated verification of compositions. This project intends to address
these problems by implementing a prototype of a next-generation composition
environment with a special focus on customizable, higher-level composition
and verification mechanisms. In this context, we also want to define a
formal framework for addressing the inherent problem that, in the face
of incomplete knowledge of the deployment environment, the correctness
of a system of collaborative software components cannot be adequately verified.
Participants:
Jean-Guy
Schneider
Markus
Lumpe, Computer Science Department, Iowa State University, USA
Oscar Nierstrasz,
Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Berne,
Switzerland
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