Thesis PreparationOOSS: Object-Oriented Software

Systems

Henrik Bærbak Christensen

DAIMI

The Map is Redrawn...

  If the map does not fit the ground...

  then it is the map that is wrong...

– (some people try hard to make the world fit the(ir) map )

The Map is Redrawn...

  The OOSS group has recently split into two:– Erik Ernst and Klaus Ostermann have decided to join

the Programming Language group (MIS, AM,...)– Over the years Erik’s focus has moved from language

implementation towards theory

  Thus the group’s overall profile has changed...

The Front Row of People

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Klaus Marius HansenSoftware architecture,Distributed systems, Pervasive Computing

Henrik Bærbak ChristensenSoftware architecture, Research in teaching

Ole Lehrmann Madsen

Alexandra Institute

The OOSS Group

  Object-Oriented Software Systems– (Object technology)– Software architecture– Research in Teaching

  Central characteristics– Experimental research approach

  Research group– 1 professor, 2 associate professors, post docs,

academic researchers, PhD students, and many people that are simply associated

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Software Architecture

  Conceptual– Architectures for computing paradigms– Techniques for architectural design and evaluation

  Application– Architectural prototyping– Architecture development and analysis– Empirical evidence, ethnographical studies– Practice: Prof of concept, tools,

  Research focus: – Software architectures for distributed (pervasive) computing– Variability management/frameworks/product lines/reuse– Industrial practice

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Research in Teaching

  Conceptual– Learning models in computer science

  Application– Curriculum design– Empirical evidence– Practice

  Research focus– Introductory programming– Software architecture– Example/book classifications (”good/bad”)– Tools

Activities

  Research– Basic research

– Collaboration projects with industry: ISIS Katrinebjerg

– EU: PalCom (IP), eu-DOMAIN (STREP), HYDRA (IP)

  Education– University of Aarhus courses: Programming, software architecture,

pervasive computing, distributed systems, software engineering

– Part-time education: Master and Diploma

– Short courses: Danish Technological Institute/Alexandra

  Dissemination– Research papers

– Workshops

– Consulting partly through the Alexandra Institute

– Collaboration projects with Danish Industry

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Project Participation

  … is extremely high!

Master’s Thesis

  ”So – where do I fit in?”  Project types:

– Study an aspect in an on-going research project– Define own project within our expertise

  Mentality: what do you consider fun?– Literature perspective?– Field study perspective?– Coding perspective?

Examples

  Recent theses– Comparison of Automated Test Data Generation Methods (Artur

Michal Gadomski)– Arguing Safety for Pervasive Computing Scenarios - A Study of

Modular Safety (Michael Petersen)– A prototype for Socket Simulation (Carsten Holmvig Pedersen)– Runtime Monitoring of Architectural Qualities (Svend Rostgaard

Thielsen)– Software Architecture Conformance Checking at Development

Time (Jing Sun)– FrameWork for Boardgames (Søren Olesen)– Frob - A Programming Language for Multimedie Applications (Bo

Vium Thomsen)– First-Class Service Composition and Coordination in Pervasive

Computing (Kjær og Nielsen)

Some Thesis Topics

  Architectural conformance checking  Debugging as a Process  Framework for distributed multi-player games  Self-configuring/repairing/healing architectures  Testing pervasive computing systems

  Architectures for Multicore systems– Attend the Q2 study group on multicore

systems• PlayStation 3: 1 PPE + 8 SPE

– lab with development environment

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Questions?