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Cloud Software Engineering Research: Software Engineering IN and FOR the Cloud

Research Themes

• Cloud Requirements Engineering
• Cloud Software Architectures and Styles
• Self-managed Quality Attributes in the Cloud
• Testing in and for the cloud
• Securing the Cloud Architecture
• Cloud Simulation Tools
• Green Cloud
• Cloud Economics and Risk Management

People Involved

Researchers

• Rami Bahsoon(Cloud Architectures and Sustainability – EPSRC BTG/UoB Fellowship)
• Vivek Nallur(Cloud Architectures)
• Funmilade Faniyi(Cloud Architectures)
• Shehnila Zardari (Cloud Requirements Engineering)
• Esra Zaghoul (Cloud Software Engineering)
• Marwah Alansari (Cloud Software Architectures)
• Daniel Botterill(Cloud Architectures and Sustainability - EPSRC Vacation Bursary)

Visitors

• Govindaraj Rangaraj(Cloud Architectures and Sustainability – Ramsy)

Research Visitors

• Francois Jacob (France)

Research Collaborators

• Rick Kazman(CMU, USA)
• Andy Evans(Salesforce)
• Nour Ali(Lero, Irish Software Engineering Institute)

MSc/Research Study Projects

• Shaun Parsons
• Tao Chen
• Jay Young
• Samia Nissar
• Carlos Mera Gomez
• Ivan Nedoklanov
• NIkola Nedoklanov
• Ahmad Natour
• Syed Ali(with HP Labs)
• Mesfer Alzahrani
• Thanont Manorotkul
• Olfat Mirza
• Govindaraj Rangaraj

Alumni

• Tao Chen(MSc in ISS 2009/2010 with Distinction Scalable Service-Oriented Replication in the Cloud)
• Jamie Pendle (MSc in Computer Security 2008/2009)
• Housam Al Hakim (MSc in ISS 2008/2009)

Related Events We Are Involved In

• NEW! Founder and organiser. R. Bahsoon, I. Mistrick, T. S. Mohan, N. Ali(2011). The IEEE International Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering IN and FOR the Cloud. In conjunction with IEEE Cloud 2011, ICWS 2011, and SCC2011. Washington D.C., USA.
• With Nour Ali(LERO) and Ian Gorton: IEEE 2010 First International Workshop on Engineering Mobile Service Oriented Systems (EMSOS), Miami, Florida, USA, July 5-10, 2010 in conjunction with ICWS 2010, SCC 2010, and CLOUD 2010
• 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Cloud Computing Track.

Related Publications

• R. Bahsoon, I. Mistrick, T. S. Mohan, N. Ali(2011). IEEE International Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering IN and FOR the Cloud. In conjunction with IEEE Cloud 2011, ICWS 2011, and SCC2011. Washington D.C., USA.
• F. Faniyi, R. Bahsoon, A. Evans, R. Kazman(2011). Evaluating Security Properties of Architectures in Unpredictable Environments: A Case for Cloud. In Proceedings of the 9th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA). Colorado, USA. IEEE Computer Society Press (Selection rate 33% full papers).
• F. Faniyi, R. Bahsoon(2011). Engineering Proprioception in SLA Management for Cloud Architectures. In the Proceedings of the 9th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA). Colorado, USA. IEEE Computer Society Press, workshop on Architecting Cloud Applications.
• S. Zardari and R. Bahsoon(2011). Cloud Adoption: A Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering Approach. In the Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Workshop On Cloud Software Engineering, the ACM/IEEE 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Hawaii,USA. ACM Press.
• T. Chen and R. Bahsoon(2011). Scalable Service-Oriented Replication in the Cloud. In the Proceedings of IEEE Cloud Conference 2011, Washington D.C., USA, IEEE CS Press.

• V. Nallur and R. Bahsoon(2010). Adapting Applications Based on QA Requirements in the Cloud Using Market-Based Heuristics. In the Proceedings of ICSOC-ServiceWave 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer.
• R. Bahsoon(2010). Dynamic Self-Optimization of Power and Dependability Requirements in Green Cloud Architectures. In the Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2010), Copenhagen, Denmark. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(LNCS), Springer.

• R. Bahsoon(2010). Green Cloud: Towards A Framework for Self-Optimising Dependability Requirements and Power in Cloud Architectures. In the Second International Workshop on Software Research and Climate Change (WSRCC), in affiliation with the 32^nd International Conference on Software Engineering, Cape Town, South Africa.
• V. Nallur and R. Bahsoon(2010). Design of a Market-Based Mechanism for Quality Attribute Tradeoff of Services in the Cloud. In the Proceedings of the 25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ACM.
• F. Faniyi, R. Bahsoon(2010). Security in the Cloud. Technical Report CSR-10-04. School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, UK.
• V. Nallur, R. Bahsoon, and X. Yao (2009). Self-Optimizing Architecture for Ensuring Quality Attributes in the Cloud. In the Proceedings of the 8th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2009), Cambridge, UK.
• G. Rangaraj, R. Bahsoon(2009/10). Green-Aware Computing: From Distributed Systems to the Cloud in a Survey. Technical Report. School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, UK.
• Shaun Parsons (2010). Testing IN the Cloud. School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, UK.
• Shaun Parsons and Rami Bahsoon(2010). Testing IN and FOR the Cloud. School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, UK.
• Jamie Pendle (2009). Case Study on Security in the Cloud. School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, UK.

Teaching

· New Research Seminar Module 2011.Advances in Software Engineering. Software Engineering IN and FOR the Cloud

Become a Cloud Software Engineer Researcher:

For PhD, MSc, BSc Projects suggestions in Cloud Software Engineering contact Dr Rami Bahsoon(r.bahsoon at cs.bham.ac.uk) so we can discuss!

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