1. School of Computing We stand for excellence in Software and Communication Technology
2. School of Computing (COM) We are the largest unit at the university providing a high quality education and top level research in following areas: Game Development Interaction design Computer Science Software Engineering Communication Systems Security Engineering Intelligent Transport Systems Human Work Science
3. COM Facts Established in April 2009, Dean: Conny Johansson Turnaround: App. 10 Million Euros per year App. 6 M Euros for education, 4 M Euros for research App. 2 M Euros external financing Consists of the following research groups: DISL: Distributed and Intelligent Systems Laboratory SERL: Software Engineering Research Laboratory GSIL: Game Systems and Interaction research Laboratory CCS-Lab: Communication and Computer Systems Laboratory About 130 people including 11 full professors, 6 associate professors, 23 assistant professors, 22 lecturers and 39 doctoral students
4. Research and Education –Competitiveness, international visibility and industrial contact Awards and visibility (BTH) Prof. Claes Wohlin -In the last five years, he has been ranked twice among top 15 scholars in the world in systems and software engineering. He received the Telenor Nordic Research Prize in 2004. Prof. Craig Lindley – Professor of Digital Game Development, Game and Media Arts Laboratory at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden. His previous roles includes research manager, Zero Game Studio, The Interactive Institute, Chief Scientist, Starlab NV/SA, Brussels, Belgium, and Principle Research Scientist, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia. Prof. Paul Davidsson - Won the Guldeken (The Golden Oak) award 2005, ALMI's innovation prize . Nominated for the European Business Award for the Environment 2005 as well as seed-money for the commercialization of research results. Prof. Lars Lundberg -Professor in Computer engineering. Special interests in shared-memory multiprocessors, cache coherence, performance evaluation, memory consistency models, latency tolerance. Achievements We see it as a success to have achieved a tight cooperation with industry as well as strong presence in the academic world Publications 115 publications during 2008 12 journal articles 78 conference papers 8 book chapters 4 research reports 9 dissertation theses 2 licentiate theses
5. Research Initiatives - DISL Technologies Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems Optimization techniques Simulation techniques Security analysis Machine learning Applications Transport and traffic systems Supply chain management District heating Health care Privacy and Integrity E-transactions Software Development Music distribution Current reserach projects FREIGHTWISE (EU Integrated Project) ARENA 2.0 (EU, Vinnova, Vägverket) Intelligent Goods and ERP Systems (Vägverket) Mobile IT on the Road (Vägverket) Railway traffic disturbance management (Banverket) Digital music distribution (KK-stiftelsen) “Health logistics” (Landstinget) Prediction of the Risk of Hospitalization of the Elderly (Blekinge Forskningsstiftelse) National PhD School in Intelligent Transport Systems (Vinnova, Vägverket, Banverket) Reliable E-mail Handling in the Presence of Malware (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation) COST Action on Agreement technologies (EU) IFIP Working Group 5.8 on Enterprise Interoperability
6. Research Initiatives - SERL Software Product Management and Requirements Engineering The focus is on through incremental process assessment and improvement to help companies move towards a market-driven product and feature centered product engineering perspective. Verification and Validation The research covers test efficiency, including test automation, and fault detection effectiveness. Software Architecture The software architecture research focuses on design and industrial use of software architectures. Object-Oriented Technology The research has a focus on modeling in the context of Model Driven Development (MDD) and the usage of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Software Management and Quality The research in software management and quality is directed towards methods for understanding, monitoring, controlling and improving software development and maintenance and the resulting software products. SWELL – national research school in V&V CROWN – research school in SE and CS EASE – industrial excellence center (Lund University, Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, ABB, Axis and SoftHouse) Ericsson – BTH collaboration Saab Space and Rymdbolaget Associate professor program Education: POKAL – Co-op program in Software Quality NSHU – Master theses in software engineering
18. QoEMoVi - Quality of Experience Based Cross-Layer Design of Mobile Video Systems – Efficient video processing techniques between mobile terminals
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20. Undergraduate Education Teaching edge Technology is our core competence –We provide one of the best educations in the country in the fields of Software Engineering and Information Technology Well balanced education – Our education programs are designed to provide high integration with state of art research as well as practical experience via cooperation with industry We focus on individual students needs – by allocating vast amount of teacher supervision time and other resources Students receiving education at our programs have good chance in industry
21. Undergraduate Education Master Education MSC in Software Engineering, 120 ECTS (2 years) MSC in Electrical Engineering with emphasis on Telecommunications, 120 ECTS (2 years) MSC in Computer Science, 120 ECTS (2 years) MSC in Security Engineering, 120 ECTS (2 years) European Master on Software Engineering; EMSE, 120 ECTS (2 years) Bachelor/ Engineering Education Software Engineering, 120/180 ECTS credits (2/3 years) IT Security, 180 ECTS credits (3 years) International Software Engineering, 180 ECTS credits (3 years) Electrical Engineering with emphasis on Telecommunications 180 ECTS credits (3 years)
28. Examples of International contacts Research Manchester Metropolitan University, England Tampere University of Technology, Finland Laboratory at the Turku Centre for Computer Science, Turku, Finland Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland University of Murcia, Spain University of New South Wales, Australia Universities taking part in EMSE Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
29. Examples of International contacts Education Active student exchange within ERASMUS program Master education attracts large number of international students Exchange agreements with India and Pakistan. Double Degree agreements with Poland, India, China and Latvia. Bilateral agreements with US partners (Georgia Tech) and African partners (Rwanda)
30. Financing Bodies and Industrial partners Funding bodies include for example: The Foundation for Strategic Research EU NUTEK VINNOVA The Swedish Research Council The Knowledge Foundation The Swedish road administration The Swedish rail administration partners in industry Example of partners in industry and society ABB Alfa Laval Danaher Motion Särö Ericsson Municipality of Karlshamn Softhouse Sony Ericsson Telenor Sweco ITS Sweden Landstinget i Blekinge
31. Contact us Dean of SchoolConny JohanssonConny.Johansson@bth.se Assistant Dean of School Lars LundbergLars.Lundberg@bth.se Head of Undergraduate education Gunnar Råhlén Gunnar.Rahlen@bth.se Postal address:School of ComputingBlekinge Institute of TechnologyBox 520SE- 372 25 Ronneby, Sweden Telephone: +46 457 38 50 00Fax: +46 457 271 25
