School of Computing professors Juergen Dingel and James Cordy, Electrical & Computer Engineering professor Thomas Dean and their colleagues from five Ontario universities along with business partners General Motors, IBM Canada, Malina Software Systems and NexJ Systems have been awarded $4.7 million in a new five-year Ontario Research Fund – Research Excellence (ORF-RE) grant supporting leading-edge research in model-driven software engineering (MDE). MDE is a radically new approach to developing software components, products, and services that reduces the complexity of development tasks by (1) simplifying developers’ views of software artifacts via decomposition, abstractions, and models; and (2) automating labour-intensive tasks, via automated processing and transformations of those models.
The Ontario Research Excellence project, announced last week by Ontario Minister of Research and Innovation Glen Murray and led by Prof. Joanne Atlee of the University of Waterloo, extends and enhances the $16.5 million national NSERC Automotive Partnership Canada Network on Engineering Complex Software Intensive Systems for Automotive Systems (NECSIS), announced by the federal government earlier this year. Prof. Dingel, a world expert in MDE, will focus his research on quality assurance for model transformations, while Profs. Cordy and Dean will leverage their pioneering work in software architecture to the design and implementation of languages for expressing and formalizing software model patterns.
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MRI ORF-RE Round 5 Projects: http://www.mri.gov.on.ca/english/news/ORF-RE080211_waterloo_bd.asp
Prof. Dingel: http://research.cs.queensu.ca/~dingel/
Prof. Cordy: http://research.cs.queensu.ca/~cordy/
Prof. Dean: http://www.ece.queensu.ca/People/T-R-Dean/index.html