EASE: The Industrial Excellence Centre for
Embedded Applications Software Engineering!

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Quotes from EASE Evaluations 2010

Industry evaluation
2010-02-12: "The work performed and the collaboration from the industrial partners is promising and should be maintained and improved. More collaboration and stronger involvement of industrial partners in both the definition of research themes and participation in actual research is expected in coming evaluation results."

Academic Evaluation
2010-10-12: "Centers such as EASE, bridging research and practice, are of high importance to Swedish innovation. Challenges are many in starting and running such a center but the expected benefits are enormous."

VINNOVA evaluation
2010-11-24: "The Centre has a vision to be a world-class research facility for the development of “embedded software applications with physical and logical mobility”. The Centre has core competence, a regional research milieu, and industrial partners appropriate to this vision and has already demonstrated the strategy and capability to deliver on this vision through the development of technologies already taken up by it’s industry partners."

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7 challenges for 10 years

1. Multi-purpose architecture
   to find a logical architecture of flexible and networked embedded systems
   
2. Dynamic resource utilization
   to find principles and mechanisms for dynamic utilization across the system architecture
3. Trade-offs  between actors
   to find instruments to balance trade-offs between operators, suppliers, requirements and resources
4. Homogenous user experience
   to give a homogenous user experience in an open and flexible environment
5. Distributed development
   to improve the distribution of development of products and services across projects, sites and companies
6. Information management
   to find new approaches for management of information, versions and variants
7. Industry-academia research model
   to develop industry-academia research models for mutual benefit for involved parties

Result from Theme A: VINNOVA-news 2010:4: Blodflöde i realtid.

Report on EASE in LTH-nytt 2010:1: Mjukvarufrågor i slottsmiljö - EASE bygger kompetens med industin

Interview with Per Runeson in the magasin Forskning 2010:1: Till hårdvara krävs mjukvara

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Featured stories January 2010

• How to deal with 100mbit/s in your handheld device without burning your fingers?
• Time to secure the alignmentbetween requirements and tests
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