New lab at SICS: Software and Systems Engineering Laboratory (SSE)

October 1st a new lab starts at SICS, marking a new important research focus of the institute: The Software and Systems Engineering Laboratory. The lab will develop tools and methods for how to efficiently develop large scale software-intensive systems.

Jakob Axelsson, the manager of the new lab, explains: "We provide knowledge and services in areas such as systems architecture, process development, and quality assurance. An underlying theme is ways of handling increasing complexity. Our projects span from helping large industrial companies to develop the next generation of a mature system to issues caused by new technologies such as federated embedded systems-of-systems, over systemic issues related to the deployment of systems in society. In all these situations, we often come across "wicked problems" with no clear definition and no right or wrong answer, which lead to challenging new research questions. We also create co-operation opportunities among our partners, in particular through the industry initiative Swedsoft, which is hosted at the laboratory."

The Software and Systems Engineering Laboratory will start with five members, including Jakob Axelsson and the Manager of Swedsoft, Niklas Rudemo.