Software engineering

The global demand for software development, extension and upgrade will far exceed the rate at which the industry can deliver it in the near future. Scaling to much higher levels of productivity requires the ability to rapidly configure
quickly, adapting and assembling software components to produce similar but distinct families of systems. This requires a transition from craft to advanced industrial techniques, with an evolution similar to that experienced by other
industries in the past. Advanced meta-models and related software factories are being developed at DISI to move in this direction of high throughput and rapid prototyping. Research is also focused on software architectures where theories, models and techniques
architectural design theories, models and techniques make systematic the construction of software structures and their disciplined composition (including architectural styles and methods) into systems. In addition, at DISI we work on advanced forms of
service-oriented computing, a programming paradigm based on the dynamic composition of services from different and independent vendors. Finally, models to control the complexity of these systems at different levels of abstraction, and languages to program them, are studied.