SCENIC Research Group

• Service-Oriented Computing
• Component-Based Software Engineering
• Cloud Computing
• Internet of Services
• Quantum Computing

Service-Oriented Computing

Is the software architecture concept that utilizes services as elements for developing applications.

Component-Based Software Engineering

Is a process that focuses on design and building computer-based systems that use reusable software components.

Cloud Computing

Cloud computing is a technology that allows remote access to software, file storage and data processing via the Internet.

Internet of Services

Everything that is needed to use software applications is available as a service on the Internet, including the software itself, the tools to develop this, and the platform to run the software.

Quantum computing

The evolution of Quantum Computing is opening new challenges on Software Engineering. This research line is being developed in cooperation with the Spilab group, from the University of Extremadura. We are part of the initiative QuantUMA of the University of Malaga.

The team has developed methodologies applied to the automatic orchestration and composition of services and components, by emphasizing the interface description (at the signature and behavioural levels), as well as the discovery, the interoperability analysis, and the dynamic adaptation and reconfiguration of services and components. The group also tackles problems related to the synthesis of secure orchestrators (satisfying properties such as privacy) or the development of self-adaptive and context-aware systems.

The practical application of formal techniques is also worked on by SCEnIC, in order to reason on models of different dynamic systems. Another research line is the integration of Quantum Computing on the field of Software Engineering. In all these issues, the members of the team have provided solutions published and disseminated in prestigious international journals and congresses in the software engineering field.