Current Status of JSI

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Current Status of JSI

• Prof. Depei Qian
• Director,Sino-German Joint Software Institute
• Email depeiq_at_buaa.edu.cn
• Feb. 22, 2005

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How was JSI established?

• A Institute established according to the
  agreement between Chinese and German governments
• JSI was launched in Oct. 10, 2003 as an
  independent institute of Beijing city
• 4 million euros form each side to support the
  joint institute in Berlin and Beijing
• The system was changed in 2004 and JSI was
  restructured to be based on Beihang University

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Model of JSIs researches

• Two coordinates
• Academic excellence of the work
• Acceptance by applications and industry

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The role of JSI

• Center of excellence in related areas
• Innovations
• patents, technological breakthrough
• Publications
• Papers on major journals and conferences
• Technical achievements
• new solutions and approaches
• prototypes
• Services to public
• technology transfer, training, and consultative
  work

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The role of JSI

• Experimental platform for new RD institutes
• Attracting and motivating excellent researchers
• Intimate relation to industry and application
  organizations
• Conformance to the international criteria and
  standards

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The role of JSI

• Bridge between Chinese academic industrial
  communities and international counterpart
• Help in setting up links to international partners

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Criteria of evaluating JSI

• Academic excellence
• Academic reputation
• Research achievements
• Excellence in staff
• Acceptance by industry and applications
• Research results
• Technology transfer
• Services
• Training

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JSI research directions

• Service support platform
• Software quality engineering and software testing
• Wireless sensor networks

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Service support platform

• For developing the current and emerging
  information systems in the dynamically changing
  network environment
• Providing Grid-enabled and network oriented tools
• providing secure and trustworthy mechanisms
• Facilitating service creation, deployment,
  verification, operation and management

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Architecture of service support platform
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Service deployment and operation environment
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Integrated management, monitoring and maintenance
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Benefits from the research

• Enabling quick response to ever-changing
  application requirements and environment
• Alleviating difficulties in developing large
  scale application systems, increasing
  productivity
• Improving quality of application systems
• Effective use of available resources

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Software quality engineering and software testing

• Software quality process model
• Software quality tracing and control
• Management of software quality assurance process
  and software testing process
• Software problem tracing
• Software quality verification and defect
  discovery technology
• Requirement oriented software quality review
• Source code analysis based inspection
• Model driven software test
• Software quality measurement and assessment

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QE Methodology and Platform
Product
Review
Inspection
Testing
Measure
Software Quality Process Management and Testing
Process Mgnt
Project mgnt
Requiremnt Mgnt
Configuration Mgnt
Quality Mgnt
Process
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Model-Driven Test(MDT)
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Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN)

Internet ? Satellite
WSN
Sink
Sensing area

• Using WSN to cover sensing area
• Each sensor senses the adjacent object
• multi-sensors fulfill the sensing task jointly
• reporting results to the user via multi-hop
  algorithm

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Wireless sensor networks

• Better perception of environment
• Easy and dynamic deployment
• Combination of sensor, computing, networking, and
  embedded system technologies

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Wireless vs wired sensor networks
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WSN applications

• Monitoring
• Environment
• Water, air, radiation, earthquake
• Infrastructure safety
• Bridges, Buildings, Railway,
• Event security
• Olympic, emergency response,
• Location based services
• Logistics networks, intelligent transportation,
• Healthcare

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WSN application environment monitoring
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WSN application---agriculture
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Research contents on WSN

• Distributed data acquisition and integration
• WSN QoS
• Optimized WSN deployment
• WSN management
• WSN experimental environment
• WSN prototypes

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WSN research topics

• Distributed data exchange and sharing
• Optimal WSN deployment
• WSN management
• WSN experiment environment
• WSN application prototype

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Open Infrastructure

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Demo Structure
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JSI research activities and achievements in the
past year

• Grid middleware CROWN
• Grid and network security
• Grid management system
• E-Government system
• Software testing system
• Wireless experimental environment

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Information exchange platform for e-Government
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Network security GreenWay mail security gateway
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Software testing process management -- QESuite
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Software test process model (POCERM-II)
Req.Analysis
Software Design
Impl. Unit Test
Delivery
Integration Test
Development Process
Beta Test
Test Process
Fixing
Test Tasks
Outlines
Execution
Review
Test G.Plan
Test Cases
Test D.Plan
Pass
Analysis
Exec.Plan
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Software analysis and testing tool
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Enterprice Process Modeling --EPMS
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WSN 802.15.4 based synchronization protocol
implementation
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Display interfaces for Xbow system
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WSN management software V1
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WSN management software V1
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Cooperation with Fraunhofer institutes

• MCI
• Inviting Prof. Boche and Dr. Stanczak visiting
  JSI (April 2005)
• Other MCI staffs visit to JSI (Sept. 2005)
• Joint research on wireless sensor networks
• FOKUS
• Prof. Popescu-Zeletins visit to JSI (Oct. 2004,
  Sept. 2005)
• MoU between JSI and FOKUS
• Joint research on model-driven software
  development
• ISST
• Prof. Webers visit to JSI (June 2005)
• Dr. Holtcamps visit to JSI (June July of 2005)
• Joint research on service support platform
• JSI
• Seven researchers visit to MCI, FOKUS and ISST
  (Oct. 24-Nov. 2, 2005)

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WSN with MCI

• MCI
• Working on the physical, media, and network
  layers
• Congestion control on the transportation layer
• High speed data transmission with low energy
  consumption
• Algorithms, protocols, hardware design
• JSI
• WSN deployment and management
• QoS of WSN
• Data access and integration
• WSN simulator
• WSN applications

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Work plan with MCI

• Draft of proposal structure (Nov. 10, 2005)
• Delivery of the first version of proposal (early
  Dec. 2005)
• Completion of the proposal (end of 2005)
• Submission of the proposal (Jan. 2006)

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MDSD with FOKUS

• Joint research on model-driven software
  development
• Localization of FOKUSs current products and
  promoting its applications in China
• Further cooperation on e-Government and autonomic
  communication
• JSI follows AN progress by participating
  Autonomic Communication Forum
• Encouraging industrial partners involvement
• Huawei
• Telecommunication industry

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Work plan with FOKUS

• Tutorial given by Testing Technology (a spin-off
  of FOKUS) in Beijing in Jan. 11-13, 2006
• More than 30 participants
• Industry involvement
• Demo of JSI research results in Aril of 2006
• Deciding next step of research by reviewing the
  current status
• Planning workshop of the Autonomic Communication
  Forum in 2006 in Beijing
• Participation of both academic and industrial
  communities

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SSP with ISST

• Working on service support platform technology
  oriented to e-Government and Emergency Response
  Systems
• Applying ISSTs experiences in information
  logistics and continuous software engineering in
  these applications

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Work plan with ISST

• Workshop on key technologies supporting
  e-Government and Emergency Response systems on
  Dec. 3, 2005
• Beijing and Berlin city government agencies
• Related RD teams
• A MoU will be signed next month between JSI and
  ISST on this topic
• Submission of project proposal to both Chinese
  and German governments in early of 2006

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Importance of cooperation

• Great demand from industry and application
  organizations
• Huaweis interests in Ambient Network technology
  (AN)
• E-Government for Beijing City
• Modeling and workflow management
• Data sharing and exchange platform
• General purpose raw data collection
• New applications Emergency response
• Modeling
• Simulation
• monitoring
• Data sensing, collection, exchange
• Data fusion and data mining
• Decision support
• Communication, computation, and data intensive

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Importance of cooperation

• Benefit form excellence and experiences of
  Fraunhofer institutes
• JSI acts as a bridge to connect centers of
  excellence in both countries
• Organizing workshops and seminars

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Importance of cooperation

• Strategic for China-German relationship
• Long term cooperation with FhG institutes are
  important to China
• Technically
• Structural reformation
• Government support is critical
• MOST and BMBF support
• Beijing-Berlin sister cities relation
• Beijing city government support
• Regular exchange and deep understanding between
  Chinese and German researchers is crucial for
  successful collaboration

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Difficulties

• Complicated funding scheme
• In the form of projects, tedious procedure
  required
• Uncertainty in proposal results (e.g., FOKUS)
• Insufficient funding
• Relatively small compared with the scale of
  international cooperation
• Strict regulation in using the 863 project
  funding
• Very small percentage on human resources (5)
• Difficult to cover the cost for daily running the
  institute (e.g., renting the room space)

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Difficulties

• Better communication channel required
• Lower priority among other things
• Slow response
• Benefit or funding are needed to stimulate mutual
  interests
• Regular personal exchange scheme needed
• Project-based scheme preventing regular exchange
• Having joint project is the precondition
• Lack of regular financial support scheme
• Hope to have a general bilateral financial
  support arrangement

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Thanks!