Welcome to the SAINT/S3EL Research Groups Website

The Service-Oriented Software & Systems Engineering Laboratory (S3EL), directed by UCSD CSE Professor Ingolf Krueger, researches innovative techniques for software and systems engineering using a service-oriented approach. Prof. Krueger also leads the software and systems architecture and integration team (SAINT) at Calit2, which provides a rich set of software engineering services to large-scale systems of systems integration projects within Calit2.

News

May 17, 2010 - Celal Ziftci and Nima Nikzad were finalists in the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2010 competition. Their presentation was on the CitiSense project, including sensing pollution data in San Diego County via custom-built, wearable and stationary devices. They proposed collecting the data, analyzing it in real time, and providing real-time feedback to citizens.

Mar 31, 2010 - Prof. Krueger comments in a Wall Street Journal story: "Now, Even NASA Is Involved in Toyota Crisis " - NASA experts will undertake a broad investigation into automotive systems and software, which might be the cause of sudden acceleration of some Toyota cars ...

Mar 11, 2010 - Prof. Krueger comments on SignOn San Diego story: "Toyota techs, feds examine runaway Prius" - Acceleration problems likely are caused by numerous factors. Itâ's possibly an entire sequence of events that has to come together for the conditions to actually occur ...

Feb 17, 2010 - Prof. Krueger's talk on KPBS: "Are Car Electronics Too Complex?" - Is a "ghost in the machine" creating an intermittent failure of Toyota's complex electronics? How difficult is it to find and repair such a glitch? How will the next generation of electronics improve on the systems in use today? ...

Sep 2, 2009 - UCSD to develop the next generation Ocean Observing Cyberinfrastructure - NSF and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership have signed a Cooperative Agreement that supports the construction and initial operation of the NSF OOI program...

April 30, 2009 - Project GreenLight Recognized for Sustainability Efforts UC San Diego's Project GreenLight, which focuses on the development of metrics and technologies to help minimize the environmental impact of the IT industry, received a Sustainability Award from UC San Diego...

April 22, 2009 - Earth Day 2009: Ocean Observatories Initiative to Expand Research into World's Largest Ecosystem - A multi-institutional team of oceanographers and information-technology researchers based at the University of California, San Diego, is developing a science-driven, networked "one-stop" cyberinfrastructure that will revolutionize how scientists share data about the world's oceans...

Mar 25, 2009 - New UC San Diego Center to Train Future Engineering Leaders to Help America Stay Competitive - Engineering leadership today is more important than ever to ensure the United States remains at the forefront of technological innovation. The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering plans to help meet this challenge through the new Bernard and Sophia Gordon Engineering Leadership Center. The Gordon Center is made possible by a $2.5 million gift from Bernard and Sophia Gordon through the Gordon Foundation...

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Mar 18, 2009 - SAINT Job Opening: Senior Managing Architect

Mar 10, 2009 - CENIC Honors Calit2's GreenLight Project with Innovations in Networking Award - Calit2's GreenLight project is one of four groundbreaking initiatives honored by the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) with 2009 Innovations in Networking Awards. This is the second year in a row that Calit2 has been a recipient of the CENIC award in the Experimental-Developmental category. In 2008, the award went to the CineGrid project, incubated in the UC San Diego division of Calit2....

Nov 13, 2008 - Service-Oriented Computing was published by Springer as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5364/2008. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the ICSOC 2008, which present original research in the field of service oriented computing, from theoretical and foundational results to empirical evaluations as well as practical and industrial experiences.Topics addressed include services foundations, business service modelling, integrating systems of systems using services, service engineering, service assembly, service management, SOA runtime, quality of service, service applications (grid, e-science, government, etc.), as well as business and economical aspects of services....

Oct 15, 2008 - UC San Diego Proteomics Pioneers Establish First Center Dedicated to Computational Mass Spectrometry - UC San Diego engineers and scientists have received a five-year $4.94M grant from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to develop algorithms and software for deciphering all the proteins that are present in biological samples. This “proteomics” work promises to revolutionize routine blood tests, vaccine development, cancer diagnostics, and many other important biomedical challenges...

Oct 02, 2008 - Structural Engineers and Computer Scientists Hope to Integrate Disciplines to 'Revolutionize Building Construction' - a group of UC San Diego engineers and computer scientists, together with their counterparts at Germany's Bauhaus University of Weimar, are hoping to completely reform the way buildings are constructed by integrating the two fields and bringing data visualization and online collaboration to the fore of structural design...

July 28, 2008 - UC San Diego's GreenLight Project to Improve Energy Efficiency of Computing was awarded. The information technology industry consumes as much energy and has roughly the same carbon "footprint" as the airline industry. With $2 million from the NSF, Calit2 will undertake a three-year project at UC San Diego (UCSD) to test the energy efficiency of computing systems under real-world conditions, with the ultimate goal of getting computer designers and users in the scientific community to re-think the way they do their jobs...

July 17, 2008 - The Automotive Software Workshop San Diego (ASWSD) 2006 proceedings volume Model-Driven Development of Reliable Automotive Services is now available from Springer as LNCS 4992.

May 12, 2008 - We are recruiting for the position of a senior managing architect for SAINT...

May 16, 2007 - UC San Diego Selected to Design, Build Cyberinfrastructure for Ocean Observatories - Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI), Inc., has selected UC San Diego to design and construct information technology and networking for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The initial $29 million Cyberinfrastructure (CI) award is for six years, and total funding may reach more than $42 million over the course of the planned 11-year project.

Students Give Ingolf Krueger Top Honor - The 2006 class of UCSD's Architecture-based Enterprise Systems Engineering (AESE) Leadership Program has selected Ingolf as the outstanding engineering faculty.

Events

The Symposium on Automotive/Avionics Systems Engineering (SAASE) 2009 is part of a week-long summer school that includes tutorials, panel discussions, and the research paper presentations. SAASE will be held October 12-16, 2009 in San Diego, CA, USA, with tutorials and presentations at the San Diego Supercomputer Center Auditorium (SDSC).

The Automotive Service-Oriented Software & Systems Engineering (ASOSA) Workshop 2008 took place at Calit2 #4004 on June 16-17.

Consider submitting your best software engineering paper of the decade to the ICSE 2010 in Cape Town, May 2-8, 2010.

San Diego Software Industry Council event on SOA/Web Services BIG: SOA that Talks - May 08, 2007, 5:30-7:30pm.

Jayadev Misra visited the CSE Department as a Distinguished Lecturer; he gave a talk on 1/26, 11am, CSE 1201. (Slides)

Latest publications

2013

B. Demchak, “Policy Driven Development: SOA Evolvability through Late Binding,” Dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Road, La Jolla, CA 92093, Jan. 2013.

L. Ohno-Machado, C. Farcas, J. Kim, S. Wang, and X. Jiang, “Genomes in the Cloud: Balancing Privacy Rights and the Public Good.” AMIA Clinical Research Informatics Summit, 2013.

M. P. Singh, M. Arrott, T. Balke, A. K. Chopra, R. Christiaanse, S. Cranefield, F. Dignum, D. Eynard, E. Farcas, N. Fornara, F. Gandon, G. Governatori, H. K. Dam, J. Hulstijn, I. Krueger, H.-P. Lam, M. Meisinger, P. Noriega, B. T. R. Savarimuthu, K. Tadanki, H. Verhagen, and S. Villata, “The Uses of Norms,” Normative Multi-Agent Systems, G. Andrighetto, G. Governatori, P. Noriega, and L. W. N. van der Torre (Eds.), Dagstuhl Follow-Ups, vol. 4, pp. 191-229, Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, 2013. (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/DFU.Vol4.12111.191, ISBN: 978-3-939897-51-4)

2012

B. E. Chapman, M. Wong, C. Farcas, and P. Reynolds, “Annio: A Web-based Tool for Annotating Medical Images with Ontologies.” 2012 IEEE Second Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Imaging and Systems Biology, Sep. 2012. (poster)

B. Demchak and I. Krüger, “A Model-Driven Engineering Approach to Requirement Elicitation for Policy-Reactive Cyberinfrastructures,” Tech. Rep. CS2012-0988, University of California, San Diego, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Sep. 2012.

E. Farcas, I. Krueger, and M. Menarini, “Modeling with UML and its Real-Time Profiles,” Real-time Simulation Technologies: Principles, Methodologies, and Applications, K. Popovici and P. J. Mosterman (Eds.), Computational Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Dynamic Systems, ch. 5, pp. 123-158, CRC Press, Aug. 2012. (in press)

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