Research Activities

Michel R. V. Chaudron

 

Research Interest

 

I am interested in methods and techniques that can improve the effectivity of software & system engineering.

 

To this end, I study the following themes:

 

-          component-based design of distributed & real-time systems

o        including specification and analysis techniques

 

-          software architecture

o        design, specification, analysis techniques, empirical studies

 

-          separation of concerns in software design

o         coordination, shared dataspace models, aspect orientated design

 

In a more broad sense, this means I also study

-          middleware (publish/subscribe, OO, Real-Time, …), peer-to-peer systems

-          component-models, coordination, composition languages, dynamic upgrading/configurability

-          design methods, psychology of design, team processes

 

 

 

COMET project (2005-2007)

Design Space Exploration for Telecommunications Architectures

Empanada

Empirical Analysis of UML-based descriptions of Software Architecture and Designs

Trust4All (2005-2007)

Component-Based Engineering for Trusted Embedded Systems

 

Space4U - Software platform and component environment 4 you (2003-2005)

 

     http://www.hitech-projects.com/euprojects/space4u/

 

 

For the TU/e have been the principal investigator of  the Robocop project (2001-2003)

 

        http://www.extra.research.philips.com/euprojects/robocop/

 

 

The Aim of the Robocop project is to develop an architecture and component model for high volume consumer electronics. The architecture provides support for robustness, real-time applications, secure component downloading and upgrading.

In this project, the TU/e focusses on methods for specification and algorithms for analysis of non-functional & emergent properties of component-based architectures.

 

At European level this project is funded by ITEA.

International Partners include: Philips, Nokia, CSEM, ESI, Saia Burgess. National funding is obtained through Senter. 

The TU/e effort is about 2 fte for 2 years.

 

Duration: summer 2001 – summer 2003

 

 

Software Architecture = Components + Coordination (2001-2006)

 

This project aims to develop modelling techniques that support the component-based design of systems. The techniques are inspired on the coordination principle of separation between computation and coordination. The project should extend existing approaches by providing support for the analysis of timeliness properties at an architectural level. The project should provide insight into the principles that govern the design of components and composition mechanisms for open dependable systems.

 

The research that we propose provides an opportunity to develop novel methods that improve the state-of-the-art in the areas of component-based engineering, coordination languages, software architecture and dependable systems.

 

This project is funded by NWO.

 

Project Members:

Michel Chaudron (pl)

Michel Reniers (TUE, INF)

Twan Basten (TU/e, EE)

 

Ph.D.-students:

G. Russello M.Sc.

M. Mousavi M.Sc. (thesis defence 26 september 2005)

 

   For this project, we are collaborating with

-          University of California, Irvine:

 Sandeep Shukla, Rajesh Gupta, D. Schmidt

-          Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam:

Maarten van Steen

 

Duration: 2001-2005

 

Architectural Modelling of Embedded Systems

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 Last edited

 6 sept 2005