Category: Cloud Computing
Systemization of Knowledge about Architecting Cloud-Based Systems
We have been expanding our research on engineering systems with/for Cloud based infrastructures. One of the key challenges of engineering cloud-based systems is designing and evaluating appropriate architectures. Being a relatively new area, knowledge about designing and evaluating cloud-based systems is scarce and but growing. We observed the need of systematically identifying and synthesizing the…
Smart Campus: Model Driven Security for Systems of Systems
Socio-technical systems underpinning smart and connected cities are good examples of systems of systems – where each constituent system act and behave independents but these systems are connected with each other and provide each other different services. Security is one of the key aspects of systems of systems, e.g., smart city systems or smart campus…
Smart Campus: Sustainable Waste Recycling Apps
As part of our Smart Cities initiative, we have been collaborating with the Ecoversity initiative of the University of Adelaide. Though this collaboration, we are about to complete a very interesting pilot project aimed at educating students and staff about the sustainable waste recycling on campus. The project has developed a mobile Apps that provide…
Secure and Scalable Private Cloud for Defence Systems
Following on the successful completion of our collaborative project on building and evaluating private cloud for defence systems, our second project is on building and evaluating secure and scalable private cloud using container technologies. For our projects, we use Openstack software for private cloud and its related technologies. For evaluating the security and scalability of…
Private Cloud for Defence Systems
Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG), An Australian Defence’s R&D organisation, recognises that Cloud Computing presents new opportunities for more flexible and efficient utilisation of computing resources. We have teamed up with DST’s submarine division’s researchers to build and apply knowledge and competency in designing and experimenting with private cloud infrastructure for combat systems. We…
Designing and Evolving Architectures for Big Data Applications
Big Data applications are playing critical role for all sorts of organisations. Whilst data scientist is considered a critical role for big data applications, the role of software architect has become even more critical as appropriate design and careful implementation are the key to successful big data applications for supporting organisational decisions and business processes.…
Reference Architecture for Cloud-Based Workspace of Tools
A few years ago, we started working on designing a cloud-based infrastructure for providing Engineering tools as services, an approach we called Tools as a Service (TaaS). We have made significant progress towards materialising the concept of developing an infrastructure for providing vendor and technology neutral platform for providing Tools as Services. Since such an…
PESOS Program Finalised
We are glad to announce that the 7th edition of the workshop on Principles of Engineering Service-Oriented and Cloud Systems (PESOS 2015) will be collocated with the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015), Florence, Italy. The theme of PESOS is: Principles and Practices for Engineering Collaborative Services in the Cloud. This will be the 7th…
Keynote Talk at the Big Data & Cloud Computing Conference
It was a great pleasure to have an opportunity to attend the fourth edition of the Big Data and Cloud Computing Conference in Sydney at the beginning of December, 2014. I had had the privilege of listening to several great keynote speakers, all of them well known leaders of their respective areas of research and…
Architectural Solution for Providing Tools as a Service
A couple of years ago, we pitched the idea of Tools as Services as it had become clear that Cloud Computing based infrastructures will be widely leveraged for providing all sorts of services for businesses. We conceived and started a project to design, build, and evaluate an infrastructure that can materialize our idea of providing…