Software Architecture Laboratory SAL

Software Architecture Laboratory

SAL

Head of the lab.: Professor Francesco TisatoWeb site: www.sal.disco.unimib.it

June, 2009 Software Architecture Laboratory

“Complicated”IT Systems

Architecture role

Experiments

Application Domains

Models

“Complex”Systems

Models

“Complex”Systems

Projects

ApplicationProblems

ApplicationProblems

Requirements Requirements

Architecture

Multi-paradigmLarge scaleHeterogeneousAdaptive

Cost-effectiveEvolvableReusableMantainable...


SAL approach

Exploit architectural models to meet domain needs

Develop concrete architecturesto solve real problems

Recognize emerging needs

from project experience

Tune research themesaccording to domain needs

Application Domains

Research Areas

Projects


SAL activities• from basic research to applications...• and vice versa• basic research

aimed at defining innovative architectural models• pilot projects

aimed at developing prototypal platforms that both reify the devised models and experiment emerging technologies

• applications aimed at transferring the acquired knowledge into solutions of concrete problems through tight collaboration with productive realities and final users

• experiences gained from applicative projects provide the insight of emerging and critical issues, which influence the SAL research themes


SAL topics• Research areas

• Space awareness• Time awareness• Architectural reflections• Design methodologies

• Application domains (collaborations!)• Prevention and management of emergencies• Traffic monitoring and control • Environmental monitoring and control • Supply chain• Video surveillance• Adaptive information systems• GIS (Geographic Information Systems)• Robotics• Co-operative systems• Mobile systems• Hard Real-Time• Interactive art• .....


SAL research areas• Complex IT systems are aware of…

– time– space– themselves

• Time awareness– Reasoning about time– Time-driven behavior

• Space awareness– Locating objects in virtual spaces– Behaving according to spatial location

• Self awareness: architectural reflection– Observing and controlling the system itself: QoS, behaviour,

resources (power, MIPS, memory, bandwidth, devices...)– Adaptive behavior via architectural reflection


SAL focus

Awareness

Time Awareness Space Awareness

Self Awareness


Projects: some examples• InSyEme: Integrated System for Emergency

The project aims at studying and experimenting innovative methodologies and tools for the realization of integrated systems oriented to prevention and management of emergencies caused by natural disasters.

• Funding: MIUR-FIRB

• Partners:University of Roma “La Sapienza”, University of Florence, University of Pisa, Politecnico of Milan, Consorzio Milano Ricerche, University of Salerno


Projects: some examples• TRADE: Tracking RFID-based Agents in Distributed

EnvironmentsThe research project aims at defining innovative technologies, models, algorithms, and solutions to support and improve some of the processes involved in the Supply Chain. Activities focus on different sensor devices (RFID and cameras) to obtain information from actual material flow.

• Funding:Regione Lombardia-Metadistreti

• Partners:SEAM S.p.A., Microsystems, Siemens Informatica, Consorzio Milano Ricerche


Projects: some examples• MAIS: Multichannel Adaptive Information Systems

The goal of the MAIS project is the development of models, methods and tools that allow the implementation of multichannel adaptive information systems able to provide services with respect to different types of networks and of access devices.

• Funding:MIUR-FIRB

• Partners:Cefriel, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., Politecnico of Milan, STMicroelectronics S.r.l., University of Lecce, University of Roma “La sapienza”, University of Roma “Roma Tre”


Projects: some examples• ESCORT: European Standard Controller for

Intersections with Advanced Road Traffic SensorsThe goal of the ESCORT project is to define and develop a standard interface (SIM/IPS) that enables the interconnectivity of heterogeneous applications and devices at the intersection level.

• Funding:EC

• Partners:Consorzio Milano Ricerche, Project Automation, ETRA, INRETS, ATM Milano

Software Architecture Laboratory

SAL resources• Permanent staff

– Francesco TisatoFull Professor and Head of the laboratory

– Daniela MicucciResearcher

– Stefano GandolfoJunior research fellow

– Diego BerniniPh.D. student

• External project-oriented collaborators • About 20 workplaces• 10-15 graduated students per year• Funding

– MIUR, EU, Regione Lombardia, Consorzio Milano Ricerche


Recent publications• International journals

– D. Micucci, F. Tisato, e M. Adorni, “Engineering Spatial Concepts,” The Knowledge Engineering Review, vol. 24 (1), 2009, pagg. 77-93

– D. Micucci, F. Sartori, e M. Adorni, “Guest Editorial Preface: Software and System Engineering: An Ontological Perspective,” The Knowledge Engineering Review, vol. 24 (1), 2009, pagg. 1-3

– D. Micucci, F. Sartori, e M. Adorni, “Guest Editorial Preface: Software and System Engineering: An Ontological Perspective,” The Knowledge Engineering Review, vol. 24 (3), 2009, pagg. 1-2

– D. Micucci, G.D. Sorrenti, F. Tisato, and F.M. Marchese, Localisation and World Modelling: an Architectural Perspective, in International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (ARS), Special Issue on Software Development and Integration in Robotics, Volume 3, Number 1, pp. 79-84, March 2006

– F. Arcelli, C. Raibulet, F. Tisato, M. Adorni, Designing Ubiquitous Systems through Architectural Reflection, IEEE Pervasive Computing: Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems Journal, Ubiquitous System Software – Vol. 3, No. 3, Works in Progress Section, July-September 2004, pp. 58


Recent publications• International conferences:

– D. Toscani, M. Frigerio, and D. Bernini, Dynamic Update of Data Analysis Models in Emergency Systems, In Proceedings of the 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, MCEM Workshop, June 2009, Leipzig, Germany

– D. Bernini, D. Toscani, and M. Frigerio, A Software Architecture for the Deployment of Executable Transformation Models, In Proceedings of the 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, MCEM Workshop, June 2009, Leipzig, Germany

– D. Micucci, How to Localize Domain Entities: the Case of a Flooding Prediction and Risk Management System, In Proceedings of the 5th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, MCEM Workshop, June 2009, Leipzig, Germany

– M. Adorni, D. Micucci, and F. Tisato, RA3: Enabling Adaptivity via a Reflective Architecture, In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering as part of the 26th IASTED International Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics, February 2008, Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 214-219

– S. Ceriani, C. Raibulet, L. Ubezio, A Java Mobile-Enabled Environment to Access Adaptive Services, In Proceedings of the 5th Principles and Practice of Programming in Java Conference (PPPJ 2007), ACM Press, Lisbon, Portugal, September 5th, 2007, pp. 249-254

– D. Micucci, M. Oldani, and F. Tisato, Time-Aware Multi Agent Systems, In Proocedings of Multiagent Systems and Software Architecture (MASSA). D. Weyns and T. Holvoet (Eds.), September 2006, Erfurt, Germany, pp. 71-78

– C. Raibulet, F. Arcelli, S. Mussino, M. Riva, F. Tisato, L. Ubezio, Components in an Adaptive and QoS-based Architecture, In Proceedings of the ICSE 2006 Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2006), IEEE Press, Shanghai, China, May, 21st-22nd, 2006, pp. 65-71

• Book chapters:– M. Adorni, et. Al., Reference Architecture and Framework, Mobile Information Systems: Infrastructure and

Design for Adaptivity and Flexibility, Chapter 2, Barbara Pernici (ed.), Springer, 2006, pp. 25-46– M. Adorni, et. Al., The MAIS Approach to Web Service Design, Advanced Topics in Database Research, Vol.

5, Chapter XI, Keng Siau (ed.), Idea Group Publishing, 2006, pp. 187-204

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