Research

Research Areas

We conduct research in a range of topic areas relating to component-based software and systems engineering.

Adaptive and Reconfigurable Software Systems

• Reconfigurable Software Systems
• Role Oriented Adaptive Design (ROAD)

Services Engineering

• Automated service composition with business rules
• Personalised Active Service Space (PASS)

Software and Service Composition

• Automated service composition
• Software composition languages

Software Architecture Design

• Quantitative Analysis of Software Architecture Change Impact Analysis
• Rationalisation of Software Architecture Design
• Software Requirements and Architecture Management

Software Interoperability

• Specification, compatibility analysis and run-time monitoring of software interactions

Software Performance Engineering

• Performance characterisation and compositional analysis for component-based software
• Performance Evaluation and Prediction for Legacy Information Systems

Software Security Engineering

• Achieving system security through architectural adapatation
• Security characterisation and compositional analysis for component-based software