A research team at Trinity College Dublin provided by Lero is to participate with researchers in France and Norway in a European Commission-funded research programme worth €2.5 million.
The programme – Diversify: Ecology-inspired software diversity for distributed adaptation in CAS (Collaborative Adaptive Systems) – will explore diversity as the foundation for novel software design. It brings together leading European researchers from software intensive distributed systems and ecology in order to translate ecological concepts and processes into software design. If successful, the workd could lead to breakthroughs in technologies to maintain and evaluate stable computer systems.
The Irish team, provided by Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, is being led by Prof Siobhan Clarke of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin.
"This is a novel and exciting programme which for the first time will use the principles of ecological and evolutionary systems and apply them to software development. Biodiversity is essential for the robustness and adaptability of ecological and many other systems. The limited amount of diversity in software is a major concern which we aim to address under this programme," said Prof Clarke.
Dr Hui Song of Trinity College Dublin who will work on the three-year programme added, "One of our international partners is the University of Rennes in France which is a leader in ecological research so this will be a truly multi-disciplinary collaboration."
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