This a breif describtion of a research group that's been created at faculty of computing & IT in King AbdulAziz University. The group is lea by Dr Wajdi Aljiaibi and Dr Adnan AlBar.

1. Applied Enterprise Software Component
Technology Research Group (enCom)
TOWARDS EFFECTIVE APPLIED RESEARCH @FCIT@KAU
DR WAJDI ALJIDIABI & DR ADNAN M. ALBAR

2. Motivation
To create a research group that:
◦ Meet our research ambitions
◦ PhD. & MSc. Student interests
◦ Possibility for grants & funding
◦ Facilitate an applied research approach
◦ Innovations and Creativity

3. enCom Roadmap
 Component Based Software Engineering
 Business Architecture
 Measurement
 Open Source Systems (OSS)

4. enCom Research Topics
Research Area Topics Keywords
Software components
Discovery, selection, measurement, quality,
trustworthiness, certification, emergent properties,
models, application composition, reuse, etc
development, software measurement,
software engineering, software
quality
Component Based Software
Engineering (CBSE)
Life cycles, tools, development processes, CBSE-based
configuration management
CBSE, project management, software
engineering, cm
Object Orientation
UML, analysis, system architecture, design, OO
languages, etc UML, software engineering, object
CBSE-based Testing Testcase generation, test tools, CSPE Testing, software engineering
Open Source Systems
Open source cloud systems, open source ERP systems,
ERP customization, architecture, design, comparisons,
databases, tools, BPM, etc..
software engineering, open source,
cloud, ERP
Software Risk management
Planning, processes, tools, etc.
software engineering, project
management, risk
Mobile Applications for the
Enterprise Analysis and design for mobility, mobile e-government
e-government, software engineering,
mobility
Software architecture &data models
for the enterprise.
Modeling concepts, architectural patterns, multi-tier
architecture, etc.
software engineering, data modeling,
architecture, ERP
Business Process and ERP
Business process intelligence, tools, etc.
business process re-engineering, AI,
software engineering, software
development
Modeling of e-government systems
& business processes
e-government methodology (ie. Yesser), inter-
organizational operability, BPM, BPR, etc.
e-government, software engineering,
systems

5. Current Status
 3 Faculty members
 4 lecturers
 3 Msc Student
23 initial student term-papers
 5 Potential PhD & MSc members
 Website is under construction
 News bulletin is under consideration