Current Research Projects

S-CUBE - Software Services and Systems Network

Principal investigators: George Spanoudakis (Computing) and Neil Maiden (HCID)
Co-Investigator: Andrea Zisman (Computing)
Funding: € 331,290 (Computing) and € 331,290 (HCID) (€ 8.5m for the entire project)
Funding source: EU (F7, Network of Excellence)
Duration: 2008 - 2012
Overview: Network of Excellence in Software services whose mission is to establish a unified, multidisciplinary, vibrant research community enabling Europe to lead the software-services revolution and shape the software service based Internet that will underpin future society.

SLA@SOI - Empowering the Service Economy with SLA-aware Infrastructures

Principal investigator: George Spanoudakis
Funding: � 535,425 (City University London) �9.6m (Total) )
Funding source: EU (F7 Integrated Project)
Duration: 2008 - 2011
Overview: SLA@SOI aims to provide a technological framework that will address major needs of the emerging software-service intensive economy, namely: (1) The need for predicting and enforcing software service quality at runtime, (2) The need for transparent management of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) determining the exact conditions under which software services are provided/consumed, and (3) The need for highly automated negotiation, provision, and monitoring of services running on evolving and adaptable IT infrastructures. To address these needs the project will provide an open source SLA management framework with capabilities for prediction, monitoring and adaptation of software service provision on heterogeneous and distributed service-oriented infrastructure. Key innovative features of this framework will be: (i) the provision of e-contracting, (2) the systematic grounding of SLAs from the business level down to the infrastructure, (3) the exploitation of virtualization technologies at infrastructure level for SLA enforcement, and (4) advanced engineering methodologies for the creation of predictable and manageable services.