The Software Engineering section is a global partner for excellent research, technology development and application together with academic and industrial partners. With our research we advance knowledge in key technology areas which reinforce each other. The overall aim of our research is to help companies and society in the transformation towards digitalisation.
Our overall objective is to do research and innovation activities that help:
Turning data into actionable insights: Society is facing more and more complex problems. Advancements in digital technology have enabled an unprecedented ability to collect, store and process data. We want to turn such data into actionable insights for complex problems, e.g., to strengthen decision-making processes and make it available for human action or enable more autonomous systems.
Adding software-based intelligence to improve solutions or processes:
Society requests that solutions and processes are improved to address new or evolving challenges. Advancements in functionality and miniaturization of hardware and software-based intelligence enable new means of optimizing solutions and processes. We want to provide approaches for adding software-based intelligence to solutions and processes to enable society to be more succesful.
Supporting human trust in digital technology: The rapid digitalization of society depends on humans trusting digital solutions. This trust is violated if solutions are not designed e.g., to be secure and transparent, to protect the rights and safety of humans. We would like to engineer approaches that by design enable trustworthy digital technologies that secure reliability, safety, security, and privacy in a world faced with new threats and the evolution of quantum technologies.
Improving efficiency and quality of software development: Society requests approaches to support the creation of software for the digital transition. It is important that it is possible to cost-efficiently develop software with a predictable quality and in a maintainable form even when engineering critical systems with complex elements. Our aim is to increase the body of knowledge of industrial software engineering and further improve software engineering methods, tools, and practices in these respects.
Enable a digital and green transition: The society is facing a range of problems that call for completing both a digital and a green transition. Digital technologies have a big potential to contribute to the green transition. However, digital solutions also need to be sustainable. We want to increase the body of knowledge of software engineering approaches for developing sustainable software solutions to power a twin transition.
Human-centered design and development of digital technology: It is important that software development is inclusive and human centered to design software for people first. We want to increase the body of knowledge of software engineering methods and technologies that enable such designs and development activities.
An academic collaborator for research and innovation within software: Society has a need for innovating the status quo via digital solutions. Such innovation requires tight collaboration with the industry and public sector and the creation of completely new start-ups. We want to support innovation processes with digital knowledge and competences to enable successful technology-based businesses and societal technology adoption.
Educate more specialists within software: The society at large needs more specialist capacity within software on all levels (Diploma, Master, PhD) to develop and remain in control of our digital future.
We address real-world challenges by engaging in both academic and industrial collaborations at national and international level.
To learn more about our work in these areas please read more on each site of our research laboratories.
Supporting human trust in digital technology: The rapid digitalization of society depends on humans trusting digital solutions. This trust is violated if solutions are not designed e.g., to be secure and transparent, to protect the rights and safety of humans. We would like to engineer approaches that by design enable trustworthy digital technologies that secure reliability, safety, security, and privacy in a world faced with new threats and the evolution of quantum technologies.
Improving efficiency and quality of software development: Society requests approaches to support the creation of software for the digital transition. It is important that it is possible to cost-efficiently develop software with a predictable quality and in a maintainable form even when engineering critical systems with complex elements. Our aim is to increase the body of knowledge of industrial software engineering and further improve software engineering methods, tools, and practices in these respects.
Enable a digital and green transition: The society is facing a range of problems that call for completing both a digital and a green transition. Digital technologies have a big potential to contribute to the green transition. However, digital solutions also need to be sustainable. We want to increase the body of knowledge of software engineering approaches for developing sustainable software solutions to power a twin transition.
Human-centered design and development of digital technology: It is important that software development is inclusive and human centered to design software for people first. We want to increase the body of knowledge of software engineering methods and technologies that enable such designs and development activities.
An academic collaborator for research and innovation within software: Society has a need for innovating the status quo via digital solutions. Such innovation requires tight collaboration with the industry and public sector and the creation of completely new start-ups. We want to support innovation processes with digital knowledge and competences to enable successful technology-based businesses and societal technology adoption.
Educate more specialists within software: The society at large needs more specialist capacity within software on all levels (Diploma, Master, PhD) to develop and remain in control of our digital future.
We address real-world challenges by engaging in both academic and industrial collaborations at national and international level.
To learn more about our work in these areas please read more on each site of our research laboratories.