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Workshop on Key Challenges for Software and Services Research
Brussels, 21 April 2005
Objectives
This workshop offered a forum for a constructive discussion of the main themes identified as priorities for the development of the software sector in Europe. The results of the workshop helped improve the understanding of the key challenges in software and services research and support constituency building in the following areas:
- Building an industrial capability to develop and deploy services and software.
- Increasing the productivity and quality of software and service engineering.
- Fostering interoperability between middleware and tools for software and value-added distributed services and promoting standards in this area.
- Promoting research in distributed and complex systems of software and services.
- Supporting policy development in the software and services area.
Attendees had the opportunity to discuss research perspectives and priorities in software, services and systems.
Discussion topics
The participants were invited to discuss the following topics:
- Service Engineering: research on the engineering, management and provision of services and software
- Complex software systems: principles, methodologies and tools for design, management and simulation of complex software systems.
- Fundamental software engineering: foundational and applied research to enable the creation of software systems with property of self-adaptability, flexibility, robustness, dependability and evolvability.
- Open Source Software: research into technologies specifically supporting the development, deployment, evolution and benchmarking of open source software.
- Support Measures to contribute to study the evolution of the software industry into service-based organisations and identifying strategies and technological roadmaps.
Target group
The workshop was targeted to industry and researchers actively involved in the development of software who wanted to contribute to the identification of the main research strategies in the software, services and systems area.
Agenda - Morning Plenary Workshop
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Opening and welcome João da Silva, Director of the Network and Communication Technologies Directorate |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Software, Services and Systems a vision from the industrial perspective Jean-Paul Lepeytre, Vice President and Director of Service Division, Thales |
| 10:50 - 12:50 | Round table: research perspectives and priorities in software, services and systems. Chair: Jesús Villasante, Head of the Software Technologies Unit Panel lists: Heikki Saikkonen - Nokia Roger Kilian-Kehr - SAP Dario Avallone - Engineering François Bancilhon - Mandriva Bruno Nouzille - Thales, VP Service Division Jean-Pierre Banâtre - INRIA |
| 12:50 - 13:00 | Conclusions from the morning session Jesús Villasante, Head of the Software Technologies Unit |
Agenda - Afternoon Parallel Workshops
| 14:00 - 16:00 | - Free and Open Source Software and International Cooperation - Chaired by Prof. Giancarlo Succi, Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy - Service Engineering - Chaired by Charles Macmillan, European Commission - Software Engineering - Chaired by Michel Lacroix, European Commission - Complexity and Self-properties - Chaired by José-Luis Fernández-Villacañas, European Commission |