REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Software Engineering and Service Composition

德克萨斯理工大学本科生研究体验网站计划每年夏天为十名本科生提供机会，就计算、软件工程和服务组合这两个最关键的方面进行研究。这个REU站点项目满足了德克萨斯州南平原本科生计算研究环境的需求，并有助于培养计算机科学两个基本子学科的研究生。该REU站点的总体基础是改进各种应用领域中的软件和面向服务的系统的开发的研究工作。拟议的REU网站有三个主要目标：增加女性和代表不足的少数族裔学生的比例；改善计算机科学专业学生的留校率；以及增加进入计算机研究生教育学位课程的本科生。这些目标是通过研究解决改进软件开发的广泛方法来实现的。这些项目涉及：基于用户输入和输出的软件规范生成；使用软件规范构建自我管理的嵌入式软件系统；以及在面向服务的环境中进行服务组合和恢复的动态技术。本科生的研究主题包括语言开发、软件工具设计和实现、在各种应用领域的应用程序开发以演示适用性，以及改进的测量。对本科生的研究工作的技术成果将在一系列广泛的出版物中传播。更广泛影响的更广泛的参与方面将是该项目招募的女性和代表性不足的少数族裔学生，在开展研究方面取得成功，然后继续进入研究生院。

The Texas Tech University Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site program provides opportunities for ten undergraduate students each summer to conduct research on two of the most crucial aspects of computing, software engineering and service composition. This REU Site project meets the needs for an undergraduate computing research environment in the Texas South Plains and contributes to producing graduate students in two essential sub-disciplines of computer science. The overall basis for this REU Site is for research efforts that improve the development of software and service-oriented systems in a wide variety of application domains. There are three major objectives for the proposed REU Site: increase the percentage of women and underrepresented minority students; improve the retention of computer science students; and increase those undergraduate students entering into graduate computing education degree programs. These objectives are met through research that addresses a broad spectrum of means for improving software development. The projects address: software specification generation based on user input and output; construction of a self-managed embedded software system using software specifications; and dynamic techniques for service composition and recovery in a service-oriented environment. The undergraduate student research topics include language development, software tool design and implementation, application development in a variety of application domains to demonstrate applicability, and measurement of the improvements. The technical results of the research efforts with undergraduate students will be disseminated in a broad set of publications. The broadening participation aspects of the broader impacts will be in the women and underrepresented minority students that are recruited for the program, the achievement of success at conducting research, and then continuation on to graduate school.