A short summary about the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and its role in the SUPERSEDE project.

1. Xavier Franch
Dept. ESSI-UPC
Phone: +34 93 4137891
Email: franch[at]essi.upc.edu
UPC- Campus Nord, Omega building, room 122
C/Jordi Girona 1-3, 08034 Barcelona (Spain)
URL: http://www.upc.edu
About Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

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UPC: general facts
● One of the leading Spanish technical universities
● Public institution located in the north-eastern area of Spain, dedicated
to higher education and research that specialises in the fields of
architecture, science and engineering
● UPC is involved in dozens of international projects, including
EU-funded, and has dedicated departments that provide support to
their management (budgeting, legal issues, etc)
● UPC is member of the consortiums organizing the Erasmus Mundus
Master IT4BI and Erasmus Mundus PhD program IT4BI-DC

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The UPC in numbers
● More than 35.000 students
○ 2500 master students
■ 52 programmes (26 taught in English); 13 Erasmus+ Joint Masters
○ 2500 PhD students
■ 44 doctorate programmes; 7 Erasmus+ Joint PhD programmes
○ 2613 students in mobility; 5000 students on internships
● Research
○ 201 research groups and 64 research entities
○ 2190 companies with collaboration agreements
■ +1000 new agreements and research projects
■ 8 spin-offs
○ More than €70M turnover for R&D projects
● Rankings
○ Times: 401-500 / QS: 299
○ Shanghai: 401-500 (Computer Science: #68)
○ Center for WUR: 370

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GESSI Research Group
● The GESSI research group (http://www.essi.upc.edu/~gessi/) conducts research
in many fields of software and service engineering. Related to SUPERSEDE, we
mention: service monitoring, release planning and self-adaptation systems
● In addition to SUPERSEDE, GESSI has been involved and is being involved in
several recent EU-funded projects
○ Coordinator of Q-Rapids: Quality-Aware Rapid Software Development. RIA
project at H2020, Nov. 2016 - Oct. 2019
○ Participant of OPENREQ: Intelligent Recommendation and Decision
Technologies for Community-Driven Requirements Engineering. RIA project
at H2020, Jan. 2017 - Dec. 2019
○ Coordinator of RISCOSS: Managing Risk and Cost in OSS Projects. STREP
project at FP7, Nov. 2012 - Dec. 2015
○ Associate Node of S-Cube: Software Services and Systems. Network of
Excellence at FP7, 2008 - 2012

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DTIM Research Group
● With a strong background in database internals, the group aims at
automating and democratizing the access, storage and exploitation of
data by (as much as possible) automatic techniques and methods that
will lower the entry barriers for non-technical players
● 6 active research projects raising more than 500.000€ per year until
2019
● Collaboration with research institutes
○ HP Labs (Palo Alto, CA)
○ SAP (Walldorf, Germany)

6. UPC’s role in the
SUPERSEDE project:
academic partner

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What we do in SUPERSEDE?
● In SUPERSEDE, UPC
○ Leads WP2 on methods and tools for feedback and monitoring data
analysis
○ Leads WP4 on methods and tools for enacting decisions of software
evolution, software adaptation and feedback and monitoring systems
reconfiguration
○ Participate with substantial contribution to WP1 on methods and tools
for monitoring data and WP3 on methods and tools for taking
adaptation and reconfiguration decisions
○ Acts as scientific coordination

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Our goals
● Provide methods and tools for effectively and efficiently analyze
feedback and monitoring use cases data
● Provide methods and tools for effectively and efficiently enacting:
○ Software evolution
○ Software adaptation at runtime
○ Feedback and monitoring systems reconfiguration at runtime
● Provide methods and tools for effectively and efficiently
monitoring use cases data and take adaptation and
reconfiguration decisions

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Thank you!