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Research topics, methodology and Action plan of WP2a ‘Software and Services’

Research topics, methodology and Action plan of WP2a ‘Software and Services’. Sylvia Ilieva. Outline. Introduction Research topics Methodology and results Further steps Action plan of WP2a. Introduction S&S related goals.

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Research topics, methodology and Action plan of WP2a ‘Software and Services’

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  1. Research topics, methodology and Action plan of WP2a ‘Software and Services’ Sylvia Ilieva Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  2. Outline • Introduction • Research topics • Methodology and results • Further steps • Action plan of WP2a Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  3. IntroductionS&S related goals • One of the main tasks in thearea of S&S is determining jointresearch agenda in S&S. • We have to identify topics of S&S research that • constitute research urgencies at European/world levels • map on local and regional interests and capacities, and • are in the research focus of FMI research group. Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  4. Sources of information • Publications of BG authors in BG (conferences + journals) • Publications of BG authors in the world (conferences + journals) • PhD theses defended in BG • PhD students in BG • Research projects with Bulgarian teams involvement (national + international) • Citations • Partners’ opinion Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  5. Research topics of the academic communityConferences - Bulgaria Here we present the results of our research on publications made by Bulgarian authors in the S&S area in 2004/2008. Bulgarian authors are those working for research organization established on Bulgarian territory, regardless of their actual nationality. Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  6. Research topics of the academic communityConferences – Bulgaria - 2 Our focus is on the following conferences andrespective proceedings: • CompSysTech, 2004-2008 • SAER and later InfoTech, 2004-2008 • i.TECH, 2004-2008 in Varna • Balkan Conference in Informatics (BCI), 2007 in Sofia • Computer Science Conference, 2005-2006 • SAI Automatics and Informatics conf – 2005-2008 • conf. John Attanasof Days - 2006 • Challenges in Higher Education (CHER) in Sozopol • International Scientific Conference on Information, Communication and Energy (ICEST) Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  7. Research topics of the academic communityJournals - Bulgaria and on the following journals: • International Journal “Information Theories & Applications”, volumes – 14/2007 and 15/2008, published by the Institute of Information Theories and Applications FOI ITHEA, Bulgaria. • Journal of Information Technologies and control, published by the Union of Automatics and Informatics in Bulgaria. • Journal Computer Engineering - 2006, 2007 • Serdica journal of Computing, published by the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. • Cybernetics and Information Technologies, published by the Institute of Information Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  8. Research topics of the academic communityResults – conferences and journals in Bulgaria • The following research areas were identified (ACM classification) with the respective number of papers published in Bulgaria • D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques 66 • H.3.5 Online Information Services 53 • D.2.9 Management (of software development) 9 • D.2.5 Testing and Debugging 6 • D.2.4 Software/Program Verification 4 • D.2.13 Reusable Software 2 Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  9. Research topics of the academic communityResults – conferences and journals in Bulgaria Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  10. Research topics of the academic communityBulgarian authors in the world • Current information is for Bulgarian authors working in FMI and Institute of Mathematics and Informatics (IMI) at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences • Further investigation will cover Bulgarian authors from other Universities, institutes at BAS, SMEs Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  11. Research topics of the academic communityResults – Bulgarian authors in the world • The following research areas were identified (ACM classification) with the respective number of papers of Bulgarian authors published in the world • D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques 45 • H.3.5 Online Information Services 22 • D.2.9 Management (of software development) 13 • D.2.4 Software/Program Verification 8 • D.2.5 Testing and Debugging 3 • D.2.13 Reusable Software 3 Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  12. Research topics of the academic communityResults – Bulgarian authors in the world Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  13. Research topics of the academic communityPhD students in Bulgaria • Current information is for Bulgarian PhD students studyin in the period 2004 - 2008 in FMI, Sofia University and Technical University, Sofia • Further investigation will cover PhD students from other Universities, institutes at BAS Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  14. Research topics of the academic communityResults -PhD students in Bulgaria • The following research areas were identified (ACM classification) with the respective PhD students in Bulgaria • D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques 5 • D.2.1 Requirements/Specifications 4 • H.2.4 Information Systems 3 • H.3.5 Online Information Services 2 • D.2.4 Software/Program Verification 2 • D.2.9 Management (of software development) 2 • D.2.5 Testing and Debugging 1 • D.2.11 Software Architectures 1 • D.2.13 Reusable Software - • D.4.6 Security and Protection 1 • D.1.3 Concurrent Programming 1 Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  15. Research topics of the academic communityResults -PhD students in Bulgaria Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  16. Research topics of the academic communityResults -PhD theses defended • The following research areas were identified (ACM classification) with the respective PhD theses defended in Bulgaria • D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques 1 • D.2.4 Software/Program Verification 1 • D.2.5 Testing and Debugging 1 • D.2.9 Management (of software development) 1 • D.2.11 Software Architectures 1 • D.2.13 Reusable Software - • D.4.6 Security and Protection 2 • H.3.5 Online Information Services 2 Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  17. Research topics of the academic communityResults -PhD theses defended Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  18. Research topics of the academic communityNational and International research projects • National research sources – limited information: • The National Science Fund (2005-2008) • Bulgarian Current Research Information System (2005-2008) • National Innovation Fund (2005-2008) • International research sources: • CORDIS – FP6 and FP7 Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  19. Research topics of the academic communityNational research projects The following main research areas were identified (ACM classification) with the respective number of national projects • C.1.3 Other Architecture Styles – Mobile architectures • C.2.1 Computer-Communication Networks - Security and protection • D.2.0 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - General • D.2.2 Design Tools and Techniques • D.2.11 Software Architectures • D.2.13 Reusable Software • H.3.5 Online Information Services - Commercial services and Web services • H.4.0 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS – General • J.2 PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING – General • J.3 LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES – General • K.4.2 Social Issues Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  20. Research topics of the academic communityResults - National research projects Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  21. Research topics of the academic communityEuropean research projects • The following main research areas were identified (ACM classification) with the respective number of European projects (Bulgarian participation) • C. Computer Systems Organization6 • D.2.m SOFTWARE ENGINEERING - Miscellaneous 15 • D.2.5 Testing and Debugging 1 • D.2.11 Software Architectures 8 • D.2.12 Interoperability 3 H.3.5 Online Information Services • Commercial services and Web services 12 • H.4.0 INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS – General 1 • H.5.1 Multimedia Information Systems 3 • H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces - Computer-supported cooperative work 2 • J.1 ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING - Government • J.2 PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING – General • J.3 LIFE AND MEDICAL SCIENCES – General • J.7 COMPUTERS IN OTHER SYSTEMS - Process control Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  22. Research topics of the academic communityResults - European research projects • Participation in 85 ICT related research projects in total within FP6 and FP7 • 72 IST projects in FP6 of which 52 in S&S • 13 ICT projects in FP7 of which 11 in S&S Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  23. Methodology • The basic idea of the methodology applied is inspired by the fundamental ideas of I. Prigojin1, as well as by research results of E. Pavlovska2. • The flow of publications, citations, PhD theses, projects in the S&S area is investigated, systemized and quantified in order to reach some ranking of priorities. • As usual in such cases both objective measurements (numbers), as well as experts’ judgments (also quantified at the end) are used. 1Order Out of Chaos, (with I. Stengers), Bantam Books, New York, 1983 2 Early Identification of Development Trends in Science, II International Forum on Information and Documentation, vol.16, 1991, No 1, 28-33. Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  24. Methodology - 2 • A very tempting instrument is to consider and compare the number of appearances of the candidate areas when searching with Google (or another engine). • However such an approach would contain a high degree of noise. • Another possibility is to compare the number of queries made in Google within a given period. • Unfortunately this is difficult to implement for the moment. Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  25. Methodology - 3 • Seven criteria were determined to be used when priorities will have to be fixed. • Several experts were asked to determine the mutual relative importance of every pair of criteria. • After collecting the expert answers the standard AHP method was applied to obtain the weight of importance of each criterion. • Here are the results obtained. Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  26. Results Weights of criteria importance Number of publications of BG authors in the world (journals+conferences) 0,23 Number of citations of BG authors 0,21 Research projects – national and international 0,17 Number of PhD theses defended in BG 0,13 Number of publications of BG authors in BG (journals+ conferences) 0,09 Number of PhD Students in BG 0,08 Project Partners’ opinion 0,08 Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  27. Results - 2 The table on the next slide represents the results obtained up until now. A few areas were left out due to not sufficient data collected. There is an explanation of the fact that on this set of data the weights used do not influence the end ranking. This might change after enhancing the data. Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  28. Results - 3 Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  29. WP2A next steps Further refinement is envisaged in the following directions: • Make a difference between national and international projects • Consider partners’ opinion • Consider Bulgarian industry opinion • Resolve the problem with publications/theses covering more than one area • Break down the H.3.5 Online information services into at least two sub-areas Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  30. Action plan – First draft • Research agenda • Joint research program with WP2A partners • ATOS Origin • Malardalen University, Sweeden • University of Bolzen, Italy • University of Readung. UK • Personal plans of young researchers and update of it for current PhD students • Joint research of Bulgarian PhD student and research project PROGRESS of Malardalen University • Joint PhD studies with Universities Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  31. Action plan – First draft -2 • S&S lab establishment • Equipment is ordered • Workshops/Seminars • WP2A Workshop on S&S in October 2008 • Workshop with tutorials – planed for end of March • Seminar with results of Bulgarian and partners’ researchers • Summer school – planed for second project year • Mobility visits Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  32. WP2A Team Members of the team working within WP2A and contributing to this presentation • Avram Eskenazi • Alexander Dimov • Irena Pavlova • Dessislava Petrova • Adelina Aleksieva Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

  33. Thank you for your attention Expert panel workshop “Definition of ICT Research, technology, development and innovation (RTDI) Strategy of FMI” 30 October 2008, Sofia

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