Collaborative Research: I/UCRC Phase II: Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC)

安全和软件工程研究中心(S2ERC)是一个工业/大学合作研究中心，致力于应用和基础研究，解决困扰工业(国防和商业)公司和政府机构的安全和软件工程问题。几乎所有的公司都在销售涉及软件的产品和服务。软件既可以是商业产品，也可以是其他产品或服务的支撑技术。软件工程的进步不仅对IT公司的技术优势和市场表现至关重要，对飞机及其零部件、汽车、医疗设备、传感器、计算机辅助诊断和机器人等产品的制造商也是如此。软件开发商和客户希望软件成本更低，符合用户需求，安全，具有可靠的防御和更少的缺陷，执行更快，更容易更新，并按时完成。随着社会对软件的依赖程度越来越高，软件工程师以经济高效和可靠的方式构建安全的软件非常重要。考虑到大学网站上的专业知识、众多技术附属合作伙伴以及软件对我们国家安全和竞争力的重要性，对S2ERC的投资有可能产生重大成果。S2ERC的研究人员专注于为安全和软件工程问题找到独特的解决方案，这反过来又有利于整个社会，因为技术得到了适当的构建和管理。S2ERC的技术目标是创造创新的软件技术和工程技能，并将其转移到其附属公司，并在有前途的研究方向上培训研究生和本科生。S2ERC的研究计划包括入侵检测、自组织网络安全、无线安全、容忍攻击系统、云和移动应用程序的可信性、安全和漏洞分析、信息保护、需求捕获、软件设计、软件度量、软件特征分析、软件测试、软件可靠性、用户界面设计、可用性问题、全球软件开发、将软件迁移到多核体系结构、可视化环境、交互协作环境、动态和静态分析，以及并发程序的测试和模型检查。随着S2ERC与行业和联邦机构的合作，预计安全和软件工程研究将继续整合到更广泛的国家利益计划和活动中。

The Security and Software Engineering Research Center (S2ERC) is an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center devoted to applied and basic research addressing security and software engineering issues that plague both industrial (defense and commercial) companies and government agencies. Nearly all companies market products and services that involve software. The software is either a commercial product or a supporting technology for other products or services. Advances in software engineering are critical to the technical dominance and market performance not only of IT companies, but also of producers of products such as aircraft and their components, automobiles, medical devices, sensors, computer-aided diagnostics and robotics. Software developers and customers desire software that costs less, matches users needs, is secure, has credible defenses and fewer defects, executes faster, is easier to update and is completed on time. With societies growing dependence on software, it is important that software engineers build secure software cost-effectively and reliably. The investment in S2ERC has the potential to produce significant results given the expertise at the university sites, the many technical affiliate partners, and the importance of software to our national security and competitiveness. S2ERC researchers are focused on discovering unique solutions for security and software engineering issues which in turn benefits the whole of society as technology is properly constructed and managed.The S2ERC's technical goals are the creation and transfer of innovative software technologies and engineering skills to its affiliates and the training of both graduate and undergraduate students in promising research directions. The S2ERC research initiatives include intrusion detection, ad-hoc network security, wireless security, attack-tolerant systems, trustworthiness in cloud and mobile applications, security and vulnerability analyses, information protection, requirements capturing, software design, software metrics, software feature analysis, software testing, software reliability, user interface design, usability issues, global software development, migrating software to multi-core architectures, visualization environments, interactive collaborative environments, dynamic and static analyses, and testing and model checking for concurrent programs. As S2ERC partners with industry and federal agencies, it is expected that security and software engineering research will continue to integrate into broader programs and activities of national interest.