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2010/2011
Spring Semester:
New Module!
MSc Level. Research Seminar 10 Credits (100%). Advances in Software
Engineering: Software Engineering IN and FOR the Cloud
About: The research seminar
exposes students to advances in the state-of-art
and –practice of software engineering through researching,
presenting and discussing the most recent innovations, trends,
results, experiences and concerns in the field. It is aimed to give
students the opportunity to gain new insights, timely knowledge, and
research skills in timely themes of software engineering. The module
will include a mix of student-led presentations, orientation and
workshop sessions (e.g. discussions, brainstorming, role-play, publication
in software engineering and introduction to the peer reviewing
process).
Practitioners are very likely to beg,
borrow, and steal from software engineering
in-the-small to benefit the case of software engineering for
the ultra-large-scale as it is the case of the cloud. Though the fundamentals
of engineering software in both paradigms exhibit resemblance,
software engineering for the cloud require novel approaches,
which address the interplay between technical, economics-driven
considerations and shifts software engineering towards
a utility-based engineering for software as a service, infrastructure
as a service, data storage as a service, and/or platform
as a service.
The seminar has two interleaving
objectives:
(i) We will
review recent advances in software engineering literature,
with an emphasis on software architectures, architecting dependable
systems, self-adaptive software architectures, economics-driven
software engineering, risk management, security software
engineering, green software engineering and architecture-level
testing to investigate their relevance to the case of
cloud;
(ii) We will review recent advances in
the software engineering literature
for the cloud to appraise the paradigm-shift in engineering software
systems as cloud services and to roadmap future research directions
in software engineering IN and FOR the cloud.
Selected readings from:
Future of Software
Engineering (FOSE) series in affiliation with
the International Conference on Software Engineering(ICSE 2000 and 2007)
and Foundations of Software
Engineering(2010).
Proceedings
of the International Conference on Software Engineering.
Proceedings
of the International Conference on the Foundation of Software
Engineering.
IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering.
ACM
Transactions of Software Engineering and Methodology.
Proceedings of the
International Working Conference on Software Architecture(WICSA).
IEEE
Transactions on Service Computing.
IEEE International
Conference on Cloud Computing.
Software Engineering
for Adaptive and Self-Managing System Series (affiliated with ICSE).
Presentation I Schedule(40 min talk +20 minutes discussions).
1. Walter. ID Management in the Cloud.
2. Illyas. Cloud Adoption and Risks.
3. Syed. Domain Specific Languages and
Cloud.
4. Samia. Benchmarks and Cloud Service Discovery.
5. Nouf. Testing in the Cloud.
6. Nada. Reputation and Trust in Cloud Architectures.
7. Olfat. SLA Monitoring and Violations in Cloud Architectures
8. Nilofar.
Security Software
Engineering and Cloud Architectures.
Assessment Criteria:
Attendance and Discussion 10%. Two presentations 20%. (a) 50 minutes orientation
seminar on selected readings and (b) 15 minutes presentation on the final
report (or by interview). [Presentations: Marking
criteria]. Final Report
70%. [Report: Marking criteria]
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