Mike Hinchey, Director Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Center: "Evolving Critical Systems - ECS"
(Begrüßung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tiziana Margaria-Steffen, Informatik, Universität Potsdam)

Increasingly software can be considered to be critical, due to the business or other functionality which it supports.
Upgrades or changes to such software are expensive and risky, primarily because the software has not been designed and built for ease of change.
Expertise, tools and methodologies which support the design and implementation of software systems
that evolve without risk (of failure or loss of quality) are essential.
We address a research agenda for building software that (a) is highly reliable and (b) retains this reliability as it evolves, either over time or at run-time.
We propose Evolving Critical Systems as an area for research
to tackle the challenge and outline a number of scenarios to highlight some of the important research questions that should be asked of the community.
Given that software evolution can be seen as a compromise between cost and risk,
the most pressing question to ask is which processes, techniques and tools are most cost-effective for evolving critical systems?
   
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Mike Hinchey is Director of Lero, the Irish Software Research Center, and Professor of Software Engineering at University of Limerick Ireland. Until January 2007,
he was Director of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory, located at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.
He now serves as a NASA expert consultant.
Prior to joining the US government, at various times he held positions at the level of full professor in the US, Australia, Sweden, Ireland and the UK.
He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Limerick, Ireland, a M.Sc. in Computation from University of Oxford, UK,
and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Cambridge, UK.
He is Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Complexity in Computing,
Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Autonomous and Autonomic Systems,
and is the IEEE Computer Society’s representative to IFIP Technical Committee 1 (Foundations of Computer Science),
which he currently chairs, and a member of the IFIP Board and Chair of its Technical Assembly.

About Lero:
Lero brings together leading software engineering (SE) teams from Universities and Institutes of Technology
in a coordinated centre of research excellence with a strong industry focus.
Lero has raised the level and profile of Irish software engineering research with such effect
that it is now one of the best known and highly regarded SE research centres in the world.
The centre has the proven capacity to attract and retain global research leaders 
and to make a substantial contribution both to software engineering research and to the Irish economy.
Lero is now ready to take on key challenges of Evolving Critical Systems.
The Lero Centre is supported by a CSET grant from SFI, by other state grants,
by industry contributions and by external funding (particularly the EU’s research programmes).
Non-SFI funding for the Centre is currently 47% of the total and our sustainability plan places particular emphasis on industry support
and EU funding in the years ahead.
Lero interfaces with a wide range of industry, state agencies, educational bodies and international collaborators
o deliver on its twin goals of research excellence and social and economic relevance.

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