Modeling and management / improvement of the software development process

Process modeling / analysis / improvement

Project information visualization & management support

Social network analysis for open source projects

Project re-player (virtual re-play of projects)

Development process simulation

Repository mining

History analysis of source code (code clones / design patterns)

Fine grain process analysis of software maintenance

Extracting topics from developers' mailing lists

Software design & verification

Super-upper process design

Searching / detecting design patterns

System and software assurance

Software risk analysis

Cloud infrastructure design

Virtual computing environments deployment

Software defined network (SDN) deployment

Experiments on widely distributed systems

Resource management

High-performance computing

In-situ processing and visualization

Resource management in in-situ workflows

Optimization and parallelization of scientific software

I/O middleware for large-scale supercomputers

Key Features

In the Software Design & Analysis Laboratory, we conduct research on the methods and technologies which support the design / development of software and cloud computing systems. Our main focus is on the analysis and improvement of the software development process. Software technology is increasingly present in our daily lives, including various software embedded machinery and electronic devices for homes or mobile telephones and social infrastructures represented by cloud computing systems.

Research Equipment

We maintain a private cloud system for software analysis and cloud computing research integrated with a virtualization platform. This system comprises 47TiB of ultra high-speed and reliable network storage and a cluster of blade servers equipped with a total of 128 CPU cores and 576GiB of RAM. We have access to multiple leadership-class supercomputers, including USA's Summit and Japan's ABCI and Flow, for HPC research.