Network for the engineering of complex software intensive systems for automotive systems - NECSIS

软件密集型系统在各种硬件组件之间提供关键任务控制和协调，使现代高科技系统成为可能。交通、通信、航空航天和健康等主要行业现在严重依赖基于软件的控制器，因为它们可以提供更多功能，更容易实现，并且比电子或机械控制器更具可塑性。未来的清洁技术将依赖于软件来优化资源的使用。这些系统中嵌入式软件的规模和复杂性正在迅速增长，需要控制的组件越来越多，决策节点越来越分散，需要灵活性来处理不断变化的需求，以及执行平台的种类越来越多。结果是期望和实践之间的差距越来越大：我们可以在小规模上构建非常可靠的软件，用于严格限制的问题，但是为复杂的，不断发展的软件密集型系统构建软件仍然是一个昂贵的，容易出错的活动。NECSIS将汇集国际公认的软件工程和相关学科的研究人员，加拿大通用汽车公司的汽车专家，IBM和几家加拿大软件创业公司的软件工具开发人员，为复杂软件密集型系统的工程奠定基础。除了为汽车行业带来直接利益外，该项目还将使加拿大软件工具供应商能够加强其在汽车软件开发工具市场上的领先地位。从长远来看，我们希望将这些软件技术转移到其他关键软件领域，包括通信、航空航天、能源、金融和医疗系统。加拿大在领导这项研究方面具有独特的优势。加拿大拥有世界上最大和最强大的软件工程研究社区之一，在相关学科中具有深厚的专业知识，包括编程语言，嵌入式系统，人为因素和认知科学。按人均计算，它还拥有世界上最多的软件工程学位课程和专业。提高高质量软件工作的能力至关重要，如果我们

Software-Intensive Systems provide mission-critical control and coordination among the wide variety of hardware components that make modern high-technology systems possible. Major industries, such as transportation, communications, aerospace, and health are now heavily dependent on software-based controllers because they can provide more functionality, are easier to implement, and are more malleable than electronic or mechanical controllers. Clean technologies of the future will rely on software to optimize use of resources. The size and complexity of the embedded software in these systems is growing rapidly, with more components to control, more decentralized decision-making nodes, demand for flexibility to handle changing needs and greater varieties of execution platforms. The result is a growing gap between expectations and practice: we can build very reliable software at the small scale, for tightly constrained problems, but building software for complex, evolving software-intensive systems remains an expensive, error-prone activity. NECSIS will bring together internationally-recognized researchers in software engineering and related disciplines, with automotive experts at General Motors of Canada, and software tool developers at IBM and several Canadian software startup companies, to build the foundation for engineering of complex software-intensive systems. In addition to the immediate benefits for the automotive sector, the project will allow Canadian software tool vendors to strengthen their lead in the market for development tools for automotive software. In the longer term, we expect to transfer these software technologies to other critical software domains, including communications, aerospace, energy, financial and medical systems. Canada is uniquely positioned to lead this research. Canada has one of the largest and strongest software engineering research communities in the world, with a depth of expertise in related disciplines, including programming languages, embedded systems, human factors, and cognitive science. It also has, per capita, the highest number of software engineering degree programs and specializations in the world. Increasing the capacity for high-quality software jobs is crucial if we