EAGER: Software Engineering Research for Societal Grand Challenge Problems

软件工程研究是医疗保健等社会重大挑战的推动因素之一，软件工程研究人员需要参与其中，以获得长期可行的解决方案。 例如，目前在全国范围内以电子方式提供健康数据的努力可以受益于软件架构和软件工程经济学方面的研究，以避免锁定在具有固有有限能力和可发展性的系统中。 该项目将进行健康记录系统的案例研究，与医学院合作，导致架构规范，这将是原型的基础和可互操作的医疗保健应用程序的测试床。 这将使软件研究人员能够了解构建未来医疗保健系统的架构设计决策的成本和风险。演示和评估将基于IBM Jazz平台。该项目将探讨软件工程研究的大机构在这一社会大挑战中可以发挥什么作用。

Software Engineering research is one of the enablers in societal grand challenges such as Health Care, and Software Engineering researchers need to be involved to attain long-term workable solutions. For example, current efforts to make health data available electronically on a national scale could benefit from research in software architectures and software engineering economics to avoid locking into systems with inherently limited capabilities and evolvability. This project will conduct a case study of health record systems, in collaboration with the School of Medicine, leading to architectural specifications that will be the basis for prototypes and a test bed for interoperable Health Care applications. This will enable software researchers to understand the costs and risks of architectural design decisions in building the Health Care systems of the future. Demonstrations and evaluation will be built on the Eclipse-based IBM Jazz platform. The project will explore what role that the large body of Software Engineering research can play in this societal grand challenge.