SINTEF

Role / Contribution:

Research / Project management. MDE research, Integrated development environment.

Profile: http://www.sintef.no

SINTEF is non-profit research organisation based in Trondheim and Oslo, Norway. SINTEF is the fourth largest independent research organisation in Europe, employing around 2000 people. Around 40% of its researchers hold doctorates. Contract research performed by SINTEF covers all scientific and technical areas, and ranges from basic research through applied research to commercialisation of results into new products and business ideas, for both the domestic and international markets. SINTEF collaborates closely with Norwegian University of Science and Technology and University of Oslo, both in research projects and with supervising research students. SINTEF Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is one out of 7 research divisions within the SINTEF Group. SINTEF ICT has more than 260 employees, and is divided into 9 research departments. The SINTEF contributions will originate from the Model Driven Software Development Research Group in the Department of Cooperative and Trusted Systems. The department has extensive experience over many years of participation in EU RTD projects, in both technical and co-ordination roles, in most areas of the ICT Work programme.

LANCASTER UNIVERSTIY

Role / Contribution:

Research / AOSD research. Requirements analysis techniques. Co-existing, co-dependent configurations.

Profile: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk

The Computing Department at ULANC is an internationally leading centre in research on software systems engineering and distributed adaptive systems. Our research income in these areas is 4m Euros per year. We are internationally renowned for our work on AOSD and adaptive middleware—we hosted the Middleware Conference in 1998 and the AOSD Conference in 2004. We lead the FP6 European Network of Excellence on AOSD (AOSD-Europe: IST-004349) and an FP6 STREP on aspect-oriented, model-driven, product line engineering (AMPLE: IST-33710). Our focus on AOSD and adaptive systems has evolved from a longstanding interest in engineering adaptive and evolvable systems. Projects have ranged from re-engineering legacy systems (PROTEUS: ESPRIT 6086; RENAISSANCE: ESPRIT 22010; EMERGENCY: ESPRIT 29512; EPSRC GR/L43015) to adaptability through reflection (OpenORB: EPSRC GR/M04242; REFLEX: EPSRC GR/M76218) to adaptive Grid computing in heterogeneous environments (RUNES: IST-004536; Cortex: IST-200-26031; Divergent Grid: EPSRC EP/C010345/1; OpenOverlays: EPSRC GR/S68521/01) and Service Engineering (SeCSE: IST-511680).

 

INRIA

Role / Contribution:

Research and Technology / MDE research. Model composition. Integrated development environment. Development of DiVA technology as part of the Kermeta open source tool.

Profile: http://www.inria.fr

INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control, is the only French public institute entirely dedicated to research in information and communication science and technology (ICST).

Throughout its six research units located in different regions, INRIA has a workforce of 3,600, 2,800 of whom are scientists from INRIA or from INRIA’s partner organisations such as CNRS (the French National Centre for Scientific Research) and major universities. INRIA has an annual budget of 160 million Euros, 20% of which comes from its own research contracts and licences.

INRIA plays a leading role in the following fields: “networks, telecoms and multimedia”, “complex systems and software” and “modelling, simulation and visualisation”. As its strategy closely combines scientific excellence with technology transfer, INRIA develops collaborations with the economic world through strategic industrial partners and by creating companies (80 start-ups in 20 years).

INRIA is partner in about 120 FP6 projects (90 of them in the IST priority).

INRIA will be involved in the DiVA project through its Triskell research team, a world leader in Model Driven Engineering research, located in the Irisa Joint Research Unit (JRU) in Rennes. In this context, INRIA represents also the following members of the JRU Irisa: CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, INSA de Rennes.

 

PURE-SYSTEMS

Role / Contribution:

Technology / Development of tools for specification (and execution) of adaptive systems.

Profile: http://www.pure-systems.com/

pure-systems GmbH was founded 2001. From the beginning pure-systems focussed on supporting development of highly variable systems. The pure-systems GmbH provides product line based tools and technologies for the software development of systems with a large number of variants.

Variant management solutions from pure-systems are already used successfully in branches as automotive industry, mechanical engineering, telecommunications and consumer electronics.

The training and consulting services by pure-systems are offered with the objective of lasting improvement to software development processes. Typical projects cover issues of requirements, configuration and variant management as well as software architecture and software design.

The pure-systems GmbH developed the pure::variants product family, a comprehensive and flexible technology designed for an efficient software variant management. Systematic and consistent variant management with pure::variants improves product quality and the level of re-use for requirements and solutions, while reducing development costs. The product platform based technology allows nearly automatic choose of requirements, configuration and generation of solutions. New and customized product variants are thus made faster and are of higher quality.

 

THALES THERESIS

Role / Contribution:

 Application and service provider / Application developer (crisis management systems). Use case provider.

Profile: http://www.thalesgroup.com

Thales is a leading international electronics and systems group, serving defence, aerospace and security markets worldwide, supported by a comprehensive services offering. The group’s civil and defence businesses develop in parallel to serve a single objective: the security of people, property and nations. Leveraging a global network of high-level researchers, Thales offers a capability unmatched in Europe to develop and deploy critical information systems. Thales employs 60,000 people in 50 countries and generated revenues of € 10.3 billion in 2005, with a record order book of over € 20 billion.

Thales provides high-grade security solutions for both the public and private sector. From tamper-resistant systems, through soft-loadable algorithms and encryption devices using the strongest cryptography, Thales has a complete portfolio of network security products that provide Host Security Modules to over 80% of the banks around the world.

Thales ThereSIS (http://www.thalesgroup.com/security-services/About-us/Innovation.html): As part of Thales's new research facility at the École Polytechnique campus in Palaiseau, near Paris, the Security Solutions and Services division has created ThereSIS, a research laboratory dedicated to developing security technologies to protect people, property and critical information systems.

 

CAS SOFTWARE

Role / Contribution:

 Application and service provider / Application developer (Customer Relationship Management systems). Use case provider.

Profile: http://www.cas.de

 “Well Informed. Always and Everywhere.” This motto reflects the philosophy of CAS Software AG. The company was founded in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1986. CAS Software AG is the leading expert for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in the SME sector. Furthermore, the complete supplier for customer and information management also develops tailor-made sales support systems for customers like Daimler AG. Programs like the contact manager CAS Contact, the CRM system CAS genesisWorld and the intra/extra-net CAS teamWorks support small and midsize businesses in the establishment of profitable and long-term relationships. Company knowledge can be accessed anytime and employees work more efficiently. More than 100,000 users work with the products of CAS Software AG in their daily business. The products of CAS offer the basis for personalised and context-sensitive information management. Our daily business reveals increasing demand for integrated and interoperable solutions, as distributed business environments become more and more common practice. In parallel, several CAS partners spent a lot of efforts for integrating CAS products with other enterprise software (ERP, PPS).

CAS Software maintains an elaborated partner model in order to address a wide variety of different customer needs and cover a large geographical area. In order to offer our customers high quality service CAS partners must fulfill important requirements before getting the genesisWorld certifications (more than 150 software houses all over Europe are developing integration solutions based on our tool). CAS has an excellent working relationship with various Universities and research centres, including the Universities of Karlsruhe, of Berlin, Manheim, Stuttgart, Aachen, Bochum, Kaiserslautern, Jena and various Fraunhofer Institutes, ZGDV, FZI and large number of international research facilities etc. CAS is a member of bwcon (Baden-Württemberg: Connected). bwcon established in 1997, today links more than 400 members composed of IT and service companies, industrial enterprises, universities and research institutions as well as IT users.