Software Architecture Laboratory SAL

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Software Architecture LaboratorySAL

• Head of the lab. Professor Francesco Tisato
• Web site www.sal.disco.unimib.it

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SAL in brief

• Base and applied research in the software
  architectures area
• Main objective define, develop and experiment
  architectural models, methodologies and tools
  facing the challenges of emerging application
  domains
• Research activity is supported byMIUR, EU,
  Regione Lombardia, Consorzio Milano Ricerche
• SAL numbers
• Seven scientists and a variable number of
  external collaborators
• About 20 workplaces
• 60 articles in proceeding of international
  conferences and in international journals
• 10-15 graduated students per year

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SAL activities

• SAL activities range from basic research to
  applications
• basic researchaimed at defining innovative
  architectural models
• pilot projects aimed at developing prototypal
  platforms that both reify the devised models and
  experiment emerging technologies
• applications aimed at transferring the acquired
  knowledge into solutions of concrete problems
  through tight collaboration with productive
  realities and final users
• experiences gained from applicative projects
  provide the insight of emerging and critical
  issues, which influence the SAL research themes

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SAL topics

• Research areas
• Space awareness
• Time awareness
• Architectural reflections
• Application domains
• Prevention and management of emergencies
• Traffic monitoring and control
• Environmental monitoring and control
• Supply chain
• Video surveillance
• Adaptive information systems
• GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
• Robotics
• Projects
• SAL is - and has been - involved in several
  research projects

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SAL approach
Research Areas
Exploit architectural models to meet domain needs
Tune research themes according to domain needs
Application Domains
Develop concrete architecturesto solve real
problems
Recognize emerging needs from project experience
Projects
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SAL research areas

• Complex IT systems are aware of
• time
• space
• themselves
• Time awareness
• Reasoning about time
• Time-driven behavior
• Space awareness
• Locating objects in virtual spaces
• Behaving according to spatial location
• Self awareness architectural reflection
• Observing and controlling the system itself QoS,
  behaviour, resources (power, MIPS, memory,
  bandwidth, devices...)
• Adaptive behavior via architectural reflection

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SAL focus
Awareness
Time Awareness
Space Awareness
Self Awareness
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Projects some examples

• InSyEme Integrated System for EmergencyThe
  project aims at studying and experimenting
  innovative methodologies and tools for the
  realization of integrated systems oriented to
  prevention and management of emergencies caused
  by natural disasters.
• Funding MIUR-FIRB
• PartnersUniversity of Roma La Sapienza,
  University of Florence, University of Pisa,
  Politecnico of Milan, Consorzio Milano Ricerche,
  University of Salerno

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Projects some examples

• TRADE Tracking RFID-based Agents in Distributed
  EnvironmentsThe research project aims at
  defining innovative technologies, models,
  algorithms, and solutions to support and improve
  some of the processes involved in the Supply
  Chain. Activities focus on different sensor
  devices (RFID and cameras) to obtain information
  from actual material flow.
• FundingRegione Lombardia-Metadistreti
• PartnersSEAM S.p.A., Microsystems, Siemens
  Informatica, Consorzio Milano Ricerche

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Projects some examples

• MAIS Multichannel Adaptive Information
  SystemsThe goal of the MAIS project is the
  development of models, methods and tools that
  allow the implementation of multichannel adaptive
  information systems able to provide services with
  respect to different types of networks and of
  access devices.
• FundingMIUR-FIRB
• PartnersCefriel, Engineering Ingegneria
  Informatica S.p.A., Politecnico of Milan,
  STMicroelectronics S.r.l., University of Lecce,
  University of Roma La sapienza, University of
  Roma Roma Tre

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Projects some examples

• ESCORT European Standard Controller for
  Intersections with Advanced Road Traffic
  SensorsThe goal of the ESCORT project is to
  define and develop a standard interface (SIM/IPS)
  that enables the interconnectivity of
  heterogeneous applications and devices at the
  intersection level.
• FundingEC
• PartnersConsorzio Milano Ricerche, Project
  Automation, ETRA, INRETS, ATM Milano

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SAL permanent staff

• Francesco TisatoFull Professor and Head of the
  laboratory
• Daniela MicucciResearcher
• Claudia RaibuletResearcher
• Marzia AdorniJunior research fellow
• Diego BerniniJunior scientist
• Christian TosiJunior scientist
• Marco ZanoniJunior scientist

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Recent publications

• Book chapters
• M. Adorni, et. Al., Reference Architecture and
  Framework, Mobile Information Systems
  Infrastructure and Design for Adaptivity and
  Flexibility, Chapter 2, Barbara Pernici (ed.),
  Springer, 2006, pp. 25-46
• M. Adorni, et. Al., The MAIS Approach to Web
  Service Design, Advanced Topics in Database
  Research, Vol. 5, Chapter XI, Keng Siau (ed.),
  Idea Group Publishing, 2006, pp. 187-204
• International journals
• D. Micucci, G.D. Sorrenti, F. Tisato, and F.M.
  Marchese, Localisation and World Modelling an
  Architectural Perspective, in International
  Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (ARS),
  Special Issue on Software Development and
  Integration in Robotics, Volume 3, Number 1, pp.
  79-84, March 2006
• F. Arcelli, C. Raibulet, F. Tisato, M. Adorni,
  Designing Ubiquitous Systems through
  Architectural Reflection, IEEE Pervasive
  Computing Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems Journal,
  Ubiquitous System Software Vol. 3, No. 3, Works
  in Progress Section, July-September 2004, pp. 58

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Recent publications

• International conferences
• M. Adorni, D. Micucci, and F. Tisato, RA3
  Enabling Adaptivity via a Reflective
  Architecture, In Proceedings of the IASTED
  International Conference on Software Engineering
  as part of the 26th IASTED International
  Multi-Conference on Applied Informatics, February
  2008, Innsbruck, Austria, pp. 214-219
• S. Ceriani, C. Raibulet, L. Ubezio, A Java
  Mobile-Enabled Environment to Access Adaptive
  Services, In Proceedings of the 5th Principles
  and Practice of Programming in Java Conference
  (PPPJ 2007), ACM Press, Lisbon, Portugal,
  September 5th, 2007, pp. 249-254
• D. Micucci, M. Oldani, and F. Tisato, Time-Aware
  Multi Agent Systems, In Proocedings of Multiagent
  Systems and Software Architecture (MASSA). D.
  Weyns and T. Holvoet (Eds.), September 2006,
  Erfurt, Germany, pp. 71-78
• C. Raibulet, F. Arcelli, S. Mussino, M. Riva, F.
  Tisato, L. Ubezio, Components in an Adaptive and
  QoS-based Architecture, In Proceedings of the
  ICSE 2006 Workshop on Software Engineering for
  Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2006),
  IEEE Press, Shanghai, China, May, 21st-22nd,
  2006, pp. 65-71