Butler University, Indianapolis, USA

Background

During the Fall 2000, in collaboration with local industry and the CSSE department, Professor Panos Linos initiated the establishment of the Center for Applied Software Engineering Research (CeASER.) at Butler University.

Motivation

First, it is essential that software engineering research be validated on industrial applications. Secondly, it becomes evident that software engineering students can benefit greatly from participating in software engineering research projects and apply their results in an industrial environment. Thirdly, it is implicit that industry can also benefit from having access to first-rate software engineering students as well as interacting with faculty experts.

Mission

The mission of the center is to provide an environment for research and instruction in the areas of industrial strength, large-scale software design, software development and maintenance methods, software engineering tools and environments, component-based software engineering techniques, as well as the business side of software engineering. At the same time, the center serves as an incubator that enhances the training, education and retention of software leaders by exposing them to applied software engineering research.

Affiliate Members

A catalytic ingredient for the success of the center’s efforts is the partnerships, which are being created and fostered with affiliate agencies. In principle, these agencies assist with funding the center’s activities and in turn benefit from its services.

Services

Our affiliate members can benefit from the following services:

Use prototype software engineering research tools developed at the center.
Participate in our software engineering internship program.
Take short-term software engineering seminars conducted for local industry.
Take advantage of our faculty expertise via software engineering consulting and contracts.

Facilities and Personnel

The center is housed in the Fairbanks Communications and Technology building completed in summer 2001. It entails a dedicated research laboratory with state-of-the-art hardware and software platforms. The personnel involve various faculty advisors with multi-disciplinary expertise, industrial mentors and research assistants or interns.

Current Research Activities

· Software tools for re-engineering large-scale legacy code.

· Techniques and tools for analyzing and understanding complex programs.

· Automatic methods for software restructuring and renovation.

· Procedural-to-object-oriented software migration environments.

· CASE tools that facilitate object-oriented development and maintenance.

· Practical methodologies that facilitate a controlled evolution of software systems.

· Factories that manufacture reusable software components.

· Softbots for web-site maintenance.

· Maintenance tools for multi-language multi-paradigm software integrations.

· Software visualization and presentation tools.

Interested Parties

If you are interested in becoming an affiliate member, please send us an email by clicking here. We are looking forward to a win-win collaboration!