Reseach in DistriNet department of computer science, K'U'Leuven

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Reseach in DistriNet(department of computer
science, K.U.Leuven)

• General overviewand focus on embedded systems
  task-force

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Department of Computer Science

• Research Groups
• Declarative languages and artificial intelligence
• DistriNet distributed systems and computer
  networks
• Software development methodology
• Hypermedia and databases
• Computer graphics
• Numerical approximation and linear algebra
• Scientific computing
• Numerical integration, Nonlinear equations and
  software

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Goal of DistriNet

• development of open, distributed object support
  platforms for advanced applications, using state
  of the art software technology
• application driven
• in close collaboration with industry
• specific properties
• open systems with reusable generic parts
• adaptable systems by (specific execution of)
  application
• focus on following application types
• internet applications, web based architectures
• embedded, mobile and real-time applications
• multi agent systems

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People

• Staff
• 6 professors
• 5 postdocs
• 46 PhD students
• 5 task forces
• multi-agent systems
• Tom Holvoet Yolande Berbers
• embedded systems
• Yolande Berbers Karel De Vlaminck
• security
• Bart De Decker Wouter Joosen Frank Piessens

• networking
• Wouter Joosen Pierre Verbaeten
• language technology and middleware
• Wouter Joosen Pierre Verbaeten

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Approach

• separation of concerns, between
• functional requirements
• non-functional requirements
• distribution
• monitoring
• security
• resource usage such as time, memory, power
• clean conceptual model, integrating
• concurrency
• object-orientation
• languages used Java, C, C, C
• effort on tool support when necessary

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Cross-cutting issues

• Software Reuse and Separation of Concerns
• development of system software that is
  structured in a modular way
• System Support
• the construction of open object-oriented
  platforms
• support the development and execution of
  (distributed) systems.
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• embedded software systems,
• network protocols and
• middleware
• Conceptual models
• dedicated to the development of particular kind
  of systems
• Dynamic configuration and integration to build
  systems that
• are dynamically customizable to
  application-specific needs
• possibly by integrating other components or
  services

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Focus of embedded group (1/3)

• component-based development for embedded syst.
• middleware support for mobile computing
• contracts for non-functional requirements
• resource contracts memory, bandwidth, timing
• run-time monitoring of contracts
• algorithms and strategies for runtime adaptation
• relocation
• reconfiguration
• replacement
• task-driven component deployment
• life cycle management for components
• high-level task-models

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Focus of embedded group (2/3)

• support for evolution
• run time swapping of components
• system support, tool support for state transfer
• context aware computing
• description of context through ontologies
• context user, device, environment, software
• context gathering
• context reasoning
• adaptability in function of context changes
• service oriented architectures

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Focus of embedded group (3/3)

• agile software development for embedded systems
• agile development philosophy for embedded systems
• Model Driven Engineering
• Platform Independent Dependent Models
• transformations
• e.g. transformations to specific middleware
  platforms
• using profiles in UML 2.0
• application domains
• telecom (Alcatel)
• avionics (Barco)
• command and control (Barco)