Software Center

SWC Sustainability workshop 3
2024-04-26 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Stockholm)
Welcome to the third seminar in the planned series of sustainability!
The purpose of the workshop is to

Invite companies to share how they are thinking about sustainability.
Experience exchange
Help companies with their work.
Analyze the implications for our research.

Each seminar has 1-2 companies or researchers in focus. They will present their past and present work together with a guiding question that they would like to address together with the participants of the seminar.
Agenda:
10:00 Short introduction
10:10 Presentation by Ola Leifler, Linköping University. The research project “Switching the Current” about dependencies and consequences of changing regional energy systems. https://liu.se/en/research/switching-the-current
11:00 Short break.
11:05 Presentation by Björn Hallerborn, Axis communications. Sustainability in general, but also about the potential misuse of surveillance systems.
11:50: General reflections about the merits and demerits of this third seminar, things to think about for next seminar.
Please forward to people in your organization.
Send a mail to kristian.sandahl@liu.se for a calendar invite

Coordination team meeting
2024-04-22 11:00 - 12:00, 2024-03-25 09:00 - 09:30, 2024-02-19 10:00 - 11:00, 2024-01-15 09:00 - 2024-01-28 10:00 | Virtual meeting, Sweden

Cross-company workshop (Malmö/Lund): Time to let go of agile – what is next?
2024-03-19 13:00 - 16:00 | Malmö/Lund, Malmö, Sweden
The workshop is part of our combined research activities in Software Center projects 5 and 9 and can be seen as a merge between digital transformation and the many new opportunities that new technologies bring (such as new ways-of-working both internally and within your ecosystem) and the ways in which teams and organizations develop, measure and continuously improve customer value (by an increasing use of data from products and customers).
In a recent blog, Jan describes how he notices more and more resistance against agile methods and based on this, he predicts that this resistance will reach a tipping point. With the agile manifesto published in 2001 and hence more than 20 years old, it is time for us to move on to the next paradigm. What this new paradigm could (or should) look like is something that we hope to discuss with you in this upcoming workshop. You find the blog post in which the topic was presented here:
https://janbosch.com/blog/index.php/2024/01/02/2024-10-predictions/
The workshop will be of an exploratory nature where we together discuss (1) the current challenges and shortcomings of agile practices, (2) what would be the key principles of agile principles worth keeping, and (3) what the elements of a new paradigm could/should look like.
Please note that this workshop will be run in two locations:

The first workshop will be organized in Gothenburg on February 28th, between 09:00 – 12:00 (on-site at Lindholmen in Gothenburg). The invite for this workshop was sent earlier today and we hope you all got it.
The second workshop, on the same topic and the one for which we invite you here, will be organized in the Malmö/Lund region on March 19th, 13:00 – 16:00 (again an on-site event and the location will be announced soon).

We hope that this format offers the opportunity for as many of you as possible to join us!
Most welcome!

Mid-sprint steering committee meeting
2024-03-18 09:30 - 12:00 | Virtual meeting, Sweden

Sustainability WS series meeting 2
2024-03-15 10:00 - 12:00
Welcome to the second seminar in the planned series of sustainability!
The purpose of the workshop is to

Invite companies to share how they are thinking about sustainability.
Experience exchange
Help companies with their work.
Analyze the implications for our research.

Each seminar has 1-2 companies or researchers in focus. They will present their past and present work together with a guiding question that they would like to address together with the participants of the seminar.
Agenda:
10:00 Short introduction
10:05 Presentation by Magnus Standar, Ericsson. A personal reflection of how to contribute to sustainability and fairness.
11:00 Short break.
11:05 Presentation by Björn Fridholm, Volvo Cars. Battery Management.
11:50: General reflections about the merits and demerits of this second seminar, things to think about for next seminar.
Send an answer to kristian.sandahl@liu.se to get a calendar invitation

CoDig at Sustainability workshop with competence centers
2024-03-07 10:00 - 17:00
CoDig will participate in the Sustainability workshop for competence centers, arranged in Gothenburg by Vinnova.

Cross-company workshop: Time to let go of agile – what is next?
2024-02-28 09:00 - 12:00 | Chalmers, Lindholmen, Hörselgången 5, Gothenburg, 41756, Sweden
The workshop is part of our combined research activities in project 5 and 9 and can be seen as a merge between digital transformation and the many new opportunities that new technologies bring (such as new ways-of-working both internally and within your ecosystem) and the ways in which teams and organizations develop, measure and continuously improve customer value (by an increasing use of data from products and customers).
In a recent blog, Jan describes how he notices more and more resistance against agile methods and based on this, he predicts that this resistance will reach a tipping point. With the agile manifesto published in 2001 and hence more than 20 years old, it is time for us to move on to the next paradigm. What this new paradigm could (or should) look like is something that we hope to discuss with you in this upcoming workshop. You find the blog post in which the topic was presented here:
https://janbosch.com/blog/index.php/2024/01/02/2024-10-predictions/
The workshop will be of an exploratory nature where we together discuss (1) the current challenges and shortcomings of agile practices, (2) what would be the key principles of agile principles worth keeping, and (3) what the elements of a new paradigm could/should look like.
Please note that this workshop will be run in two locations:

The first workshop is the one we invite for here, February 28th, between 09:00 – 12:00 at Lindholmen (Jupiter building, 5th floor, room 520) in Gothenburg (it is an on-site event only).
The second workshop (same topic) will be organized in the Malmö/Lund region on March 19th, 13:00 – 16:00 (again an on-site event).

We hope that this format offers the opportunity for as many of you as possible to join us!
For the first workshop in Gothenburg, we plan a morning session (09:00 – 12:00) and a joint lunch for those of you who would be interested (on your own expenses).
Most welcome!

CoDig at Competence Center kick-off
2024-02-08 10:00 - 17:00 | Vinnova, Stockholm, Mäster Samuelsgatan 56, Stockholm, 10158
CoDig will participate in the competence kick-off at Vinnova together with other competence centers within the program Advanced digitalization.

Software Center Sustainability workshop
2024-01-12 10:00 - 12:00 | MS Teams
Welcome to the first seminar in the planned series of sustainability!
The purpose of the workshop is to

Invite companies to share how they are thinking about sustainability.
Experience exchange
Help companies with their work.
Analyze the implications on our research.

Each seminar has 1-2 companies or researchers in focus. They will present their past and present work together with a guiding question that they would like to address together with the participants of the seminar.
The first occasion is 12 January 2024 10:00-12:00 over MS Teams. Link: Klicka här för att ansluta till mötet
Agenda:
10:00 Quick presentation round. All participants say something about themselves for one minute about their background and interest in sustainability.
10:15 Birgit Penzenstadler, Chalmers, will introduce the Sustainability Awareness Framework and excerpts from her research in Sustainable Software Engineering.
11:00 Short break.
11:05 Presentation by Håkan Björklund, Volvo AB, followed by a conversation about the Volvo AB guiding question(s) amongst all participants.
11:50: General reflections about the merits and demerits of this first seminar, things to think about for next seminar.
Please forward to people in your organization. This is intended to be a Software Center internal seminar.
Send an answer to kristian.sandahl@liu.se to get a calendar invitation

Steering committee meeting
2023-12-18 09:30 - 12:00 | Virtual event, Sweden

Coordination team meeting
2023-12-18 09:00 - 09:30, 2023-11-20 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-10-16 09:00 - 09:30, 2023-09-18 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-08-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Virtual event, Sweden

Task force meeting for planning sprint 26
2023-12-15 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual event, Sweden

Reporting workshop
2023-12-14 10:00 - 17:00 | Wallenberg Conference Center, Medicinaregatan 20, Göteborg, 413 90, Sweden
In Software Center, companies and universities work together to accelerate the adoption of novel approaches to software engineering. The reporting workshop takes place twice a year, in June and December. This one day event aims at sharing results from research and cooperation within Software Center. The agenda ranges from keynote presentations to in-depth sessions for themes and projects. The cooperation between academia and companies in Software Center creates the software engineering success stories that industry needs.
The December reporting workshop will also be the kick-off for the new Software Center Competence Center CoDig, Continuous Digitalization.
Registration:
Please register at this link: https://forms.gle/7rXdVmY7EtuMkzgN9
Place:
For this reporting workshop we will focus on a LIVE meeting at the Wallenberg Conference Center in Gothenburg (Medicinaregatan 20). To maximize the opportunities to meet and discuss there will also be a joint informal lunch at the conference center for all participants. For those of you who cant come to Gothenburg we will distribute a Teams link to join digitally.
We are looking forward to meeting you all again, and to discuss projects and further collaboration!
How to get there:
Tram nr 6, 7 or bus nr 16, to stop “Medicinaregatan”
For tickets, to to https://www.vasttrafik.se/ or install the Västtrafik ToGo app.

Pre-reporting mingle activity, Dec 13:
As warming up for the reporting workshop Software Center partners are invited to snacks and mingle at Meridion. CEO Johan Bystedt will give us a brief introduction to Meridion and talk about their tool for digital warehouse and the collaboration with Volvo and AC Floby. After the visit to Meridion we will continue to mingle at a nearby restaurant (at own cost).
We will start at 17.00 at the Meridion office at Stigbergsliden 5B, 414 63 Göteborg.
Register for the visit to Meridion in the registration for the reporting ws:
https://forms.gle/7rXdVmY7EtuMkzgN9
Microsoft Teams link for virtual participation in plenary sessions:
join on your computer, mobile app or room device:
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Agenda, December 14:
09.30 – 10.00: Registration and coffee
10:00-10:15: Opening: Jan Bosch
10.15 – 10.45: Up-dates from themes and focus areas:

AI-supported digitalization
Miroslaw Staron, Chalmers/University of Gothenburg
Continuous and automated quality assurance
Kristian Sandahl, Linköping University
Continuous safety and security
Jan Carlson and Mikael Sjödin, Mälardalen University
Data-driven digital transformation
Helena Holmström Olsson, Malmö University

10:45-11:15: Shaping the future with 6G:
Keynote presentation by Mikael Höök, research area manager for RA Radio at Ericsson
The talk will cover our vision of the future highlighting key technology domains required and examples of use-cases. Further, the capabilities and central role of the emerging 6G platform will be discussed as well as the industrial timeline towards 2030.
11.15: Introduction to poster and demo session:

Introducing the Grundfos demo station: Miroslaw Staron
Sustainability in software engineering: Birgit Penzenstadler
GCC, Girls Code Club: Francisco Gomes

11:30-12:00: Poster session and time to mingle with project teams and parallel Birds-of-a-feather sessions* (reach out to the organizers if you want to add/run a session):

Sustainability in software engineering (room: Wallenberg)
Chair: Birgit Penzenstadler

12:15 – 13: 00 Lunch break
13:00 – 15:00: Up-dates from Software Center projects – parallel tracks (incl coffee break):

Theme 1 & 2: Continuous delivery & Architecture
Chairs: Kristian Sandahl, Jan Carlson, Mikael Sjödin (Room: Asien)
Teams link:
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13:00-13:25 Dynamic Test Scope Selection using AI/ML, Azeem Ahmad, Linköping University and Ericsson

13:25-13:50 Early Detection of Defects in Machine Learning Programs by Semi-Static Analysis, Yiran Wang, Linköping University

13:50-14:15 Continuously assuring freedom from risk of harm. But which is the harm? Barbara Gallina, Mälardalen University

14:15-14:40 Boosting continuous architecting using flexible modelling, Robbert Jongeling, Mälardalen University

14:40-14:50 Reserve time and discussion

Theme 3: Metrics
Chair: Miroslaw Staron (Room: Europa), teams link: Klicka här för att ansluta till mötet

13.00 – 13.30: Project 3: “Analysis of security vulnerabilities”

13.30 – 14.00: Project 45: “A Framework for Managing Quality Requirements for Machine Learning-Based Software Systems”

14.00 – 14.30: Project 46: “Investigating Different Similarity Measures for Image Data Splitting in Automotive Perception Systems”

14.30 – 15.00: Project 37: “Stakeholder communication”

Creating Value with Data and AI
Chairs: Helena H Olsson and Jan Bosch (Room: Wallenberg)

13:00 – 13:20 Welcome and introduction (Jan and Helena)
13:20 – 13:40: ”R&D insights and beyond”: Ola Söder, Expert Engineer, Axis Communications
13:40 – 14:00: “Accelerating AI & decision science across …”: Johan Mårtensson, Tetra Pak Systems Engineering & Quality
14:00 – 14:20: ”Early problem identification from field data”: David Issa Mattos, Data Scientist, Volvo Cars
14:20 – 14:40: “Data Management challenges”: Anna Sandberg, Vice President Digital Transformation, Volvo GTT
14:40 – 15:00 Discussion and closing

15:00 – 15.30: Software development is a human activity – understanding software requires understanding humans that create it
Keynote presentation by Alexander Serebrenik, Full Professor of Social Software Engineering at the Software Engineering and Technology cluster of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands
15.30 – 16.15: Interactive panel discussion
16.15 – 16:30 Plans, reflections & closing: Jan Bosch
Speakers:
Mikael Höök, Director Radio Research, Ericsson Research
Mikael Höök joined Ericsson in 1994 and has held various positions targeting the research and standardization of 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G. He is currently Research Area Director for Radio-research within Ericsson Research and based in Kista, Stockholm. The responsibility covers research on air-interface design, advanced signal processing, multi-antenna systems, radio network performance and propagation. Results are fed into standardization, regulation and product development. The work addresses 5G and 6G technologies, spectrum and wireless backhaul.
Mikael received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm 1995.
Alexander Serebrenik, Professor of Social Software Engineering at the Software Engineering and Technology cluster of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Alexander Serebrenik is a Full Professor of Social Software Engineering at the Software Engineering and Technology cluster of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Alexander’s research goal is to facilitate evolution of software by taking into account social aspects of software development. His work tends to involve theories and methods both from within computer science (e.g., theory of socio-technical coordination; methods from natural language processing, machine learning) and from outside of computer science (e.g., organisational psychology). The underlying idea of his work is that of empiricism, i.e., that addressing software engineering challenges should be grounded in observation and experimentation, and requires a combination of the social and the technical perspectives. Alexander has co-authored a book “Evolving Software Systems” (Springer Verlag, 2014), and more than 100 scientific papers and articles. He is actively involved in organisation of scientific conferences as member and chair of steering committees, general chair, program committee chair, track chair and program committee member. He has won multiple best paper and distinguished reviewer awards, and is member of the editorial board of several journals. Alexander is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.
* Birds-of-a-feather session:
An informal discussion group, typically at a conference, based on a shared interest and without any fixed agenda.

Pre-reporting workshop mingle activity
2023-12-13 17:00 - 18:30 | Meridion, Stigbergsliden 5B, Göteborg, 414 63, Sweden
Pre-reporting workshop mingle activity, Dec 13:
As warming up for the reporting workshop Software Center partners are invited to snacks and mingle at Meridion. CEO Johan Bystedt will give us a brief introduction to Meridion and talk about their tool for digital warehouse and the collaboration with Volvo and AC Floby.
After the visit to Meridion we will continue to mingle at a nearby restaurant (at own cost).
We will start at 17.00 at the Meridion office at Stigbergsliden 5B, 414 63 Göteborg.
Register for the visit to Meridion in the registration for the reporting ws:
https://forms.gle/7rXdVmY7EtuMkzgN9

Lunch Seminar: Refinery: Automated Generation of Consistent and Diverse Domain-specific Graph Models
2023-12-12 12:15 - 13:00
Title:
Refinery: Automated Generation of Consistent and Diverse Domain-specific Graph Models
Speaker: Professor Daniel Varro, Linköping university
Abstract:
When engineering complex software systems, knowledge representations often take the form of domain-specific graph models. For instance, the system architecture in automotive or avionics applications are captured by standardized models. Moreover, tool qualification as necessitated by safety standards require a large and diverse set of consistent graphs as test cases or design candidates tailored to the application domain. Furthermore, system-level testing of autonomous vehicles may also rely on synthetic test contexts and abstract test scenarios captured as graphs. In this talk, I present the conceptual foundations and a short demo of the open-source Refinery framework, which can automatically derive a diverse set of consistent domain-specific graph models from a high-level domain specification and consistency constraints. As shown by extensive experimental evaluation, Refinery can generate significantly larger and more diverse graphs than state-of-the-art solver-based model generators.

Deadline sprint 26 project proposals
2023-12-08 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual event, Sweden

Deadline for NEW project proposals
2023-12-01 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual event, Sweden

Systems Engineering community workshop
2023-11-27 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual meeting, Sweden
Welcome to the next workshop for the Systems Engineering community in Software Center (software-center.se). This workshop will be ONLINE (Microsoft Teams).
Agenda:
Theme: Systems integration

Systems integration, team dependencies – Johan Mårtensson
Upgrading third-party software components – Fredrik Dicander
Information model enabling system integration – Robert Nilsson

Revisit previous cases (if time permits)

Performance analysis app + Manufacturing lines
Predictive maintenance

For more information, contact Magnus Timmerby , Tetra Pak

New product/service development and innovation: PdM community workshop
2023-11-15 10:00 - 15:00 | Lindholmen, building Jupiter, room 520, Hörselgången 5, Göteborg, 41756, Sweden
we would like to welcome you to a PdM community workshop on the topic of new product/service development and innovation including the following topics:

How to organize for innovation in large organizations?
How to effectively allocate resources for innovation initiatives?
How to work with prototyping in early-stage development of new products/services?
How to continuously validate with customers?

The purpose of the workshop is to engage in a discussion around these topics to learn from each other, exchange best practices and discuss tactics and strategies for how to address challenges and leverage the benefits of innovation.
As a starting-point for our discussions, Jan and myself will present our view on innovation, and the importance of this in an increasingly competitive business environment, based on what we learnt from our company engagements this sprint. After this, we ask each involved company to prepare a short presentation on one (or several) of the topics listed above. The presentation should be in a few Powerpoint slides that can also be shared among participants after the workshop (and for this you can “clean” the presentation and remove any potentially sensitive material if you wish).
The workshop is planned for November 15th between 10:00 – 15:00 and the location is on-site at Lindholmen in Gothenburg.
Our intention is to provide limited participation online for those that cannot make it to Gothenburg. However, the workshop is planned as an on-site event meaning that the online experience will be subpar to joining in person. If you still wish to participate online please inform us beforehand so that we can arrange with this.
Most welcome and please help us share this invite with people in your organization that you think would be interested in joining us!

Kind regards,
Helena and Jan

Mid-sprint steering committee meeting
2023-10-16 09:30 - 12:00 | Virtual event, Sweden

MODELS Conference 2023
2023-10-01 - 2023-10-06 | Västerås Kongress, Munkgatan 7, Västerås, Västmanland, 72212, Sweden
MODELS, the ACM/IEEE 26th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, is the premier conference series for model-driven software and systems engineering, and is organized with support of ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE TCSE. Since 1998, MODELS has covered all aspects of modeling, from languages and methods to tools and applications. Attendees come from diverse backgrounds, including researchers, academics, engineers, and industrial professionals. MODELS 2023 is a forum for participants to exchange cutting-edge research results and innovative practical experiences around modeling and model-driven software and systems. This year’s edition will provide an opportunity for the modeling community to further advance the foundations of modeling, and come up with innovative applications of modeling in emerging areas of cyber-physical systems, embedded systems, socio-technical systems, cloud computing, big data, machine learning, security, open source, and sustainability. In 2023, we expect around 400 international participants at the conference in Västerås, Sweden, including academic, industrial, and governmental researchers and advanced practitioners.

Industry day
MODELS’23 includes a practitioner’s symposium, the industry day, marketed toward engineers building systems using MDE. The day will feature talks by industry speakers for the industrial audience, and opportunities to get to know experts from other organizations and parts of the world.
MODELS is the premier international conference on model-driven engineering languages and systems. It is organized with the support of ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE TCSE. MODELS attracts every year the top researchers and practitioners of advanced software engineering using MDE.
Sponsor opportunities
Sponsors of the MODELS conference are invited to expose the organization/company, products or service to an international audience within model driven engineering; academics, and engineers alike. As a sponsor of MODELS, your organization will have a unique opportunity to interact with the world’s leading architects, researchers, students, and practitioners of advanced software engineering techniques.

Workshop on human-centric cybersecurity
2023-08-24 09:00 - 15:00 | Mälardalen University, Västerås, Universitetsplan 1, Västerås, Västerås, Sweden
The workshop will be held in Milos conference room, Mälardalen University (MDU), Västerås.
Registration is not necessary.
We are organizing the first workshop on human-centric cybersecurity at MDU. As in many other areas of engineering the term “human-centric” is becoming a mean to stress the importance of involving end-users and other stakeholders into the design processes, system development, and all the way to testing, validation and verification.
We have invited experts in the field from all over the world giving talks on various aspects of human-centric cybersecurity and safety, and in general human factor in our digital world. The goal of the workshop is to use the knowledge and experience of the experts in the field and strengthen our knowledge on human-centric research.
See more information here: https://hcc2023-mdu.github.io/
You are most welcome to attend!!
We will add a link on the webpage a day before the workshop for possible online participation, but we do not have any strong technical support to guarantee the quality of the online participation.

General Assembly and Strategy Workshop
2023-08-21 13:00 - 17:00 | Lindholmen, building Jupiter, room 520, Hörselgången 5, Göteborg, 41756, Sweden
Place:
Lindholmen, building Jupiter, room 520
Or over Zoom (link shared over email)
13.00: General Assembly
14.00: Strategy workshop – agenda:

Opening and introduction
Summary of company interviews
Breakout groups on the following topics:

How could Software Center better support the industrialization of research results?
How should Software Center support the companies to exploit AI in software development?
What new topics and areas should Software Center engage in to maximize relevance for the member companies?

Presentation by breakout groups
Summary and conclusion
