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Main axes of research

Conceiving a software service is usually considered as a classical approach going from functional requirements to application code through different stages like functional analysis, application design and architecture modelling. Ensuring that the code produced is in line with the business specifications first expressed is then called "Business/IT alignment". But working on research projects allows also the testing of innovative technologies through technical prototypes or proofs of concept which ensure that they are suitable and help to conceive new business cases. However, this approach of "Innovating Business from IT" first requires that software reference models and standards for qualifying the IT service with an SLA (Service Level Agreement) are used. Those quality attributes give the business analysts the possibility to transform the software service into a useful and valuable business service.

The objective of SISE is to enhance the underlying models of each level of the process (specification, architecture and code) and to contribute to the global challenge of Service Science by improving software engineering practices and by providing the possibility to deliver well-defined quality software services.

This transversal challenge is achieved through the management of specific themes, which gather similar skills and tackle research and innovation issues in their domain:

• Service engineering
• Software architecture
• Human Computer Interaction
• Service & Software Security
• Distributed Systems

Application domains

All domains

Current research projects

• MICIE "Tool for Systemic Risk Analysis and Secure Mediation of Data Exchanged Across Linked Critical Infrastructure Information Infrastructures" aims to design and implement an "MICIE alerting system" which identifies the level of possible threats induced on a Critical Infrastructure (CI) by "undesired" events happening in such a CI and/or other interdependent CIs
• TITAN "Trust-Assurance for Critical Infrastructures in Multi-Agents Environments" aims to challenge the threat that represents the growth of critical infrastructures relationships for security solutions by defining a new method to achieve trust among devices or other networked agents of a CI
• Dest2Co "Design of E-Services Transactions for Collaborative Construction activities" investigates the design techniques applicable in a collaborative business environment and will produce a methodology and a tool supporting the e-services design process
• PEGASE "Prototyping and Evaluation of Geolocalised Advances Services" will produce a methodology unifying technical and business aspects in order to improve the operation of context mobiles services
• WisafeCar "Wireless traffic Safety network between Cars" aims to increase performance and reliability of the wireless service platform for traffic safety improvements "CARLINK"
• Sequoia "Software Engineering Quality - Model, Implementation and Assessment" aims to set-up a European virtual lab in software quality, build quality reference models based on existing standards and develop methods for quality improvement

Areas of competence

Information and Communication Technologies

Technology keywords

Advanced Systems Architecture - Computer Software - Databases, Database Management, Data Mining - Data Processing/Data Interchange, Middleware - Information Filtering, Semantics, Statistics - Information Technology/Informatics - Internet Technologies/Communication (Wireless, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth) - Knowledge Management, Process Management - Mobile Communications - User Interfaces, Usability