Thousands of Irish software jobs could be forced overseas

Thousands of Irish software jobs could be forced overseas unless measures are taken to combat a skills and investment shortage, according to a new report published today. The “Irish Software Landscape”  study was conducted by Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre; the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick, and the Centre...

SFI Industry Fellowship of €110,000 Awarded to Anthony Ventresque

Dr Anthony Ventresque has been awarded an SFI Industry Fellowship of €110,000 to work in collaboration with IBM Research Lab in Dublin on performance improvement of Urban Mobility Simulation. This project is related to the fast and accurate simulation of what-if scenarios in the application area of Smarter Transportation. Transport Mobility Simulation is a very...

Industry Impact Award

Trevor Clohessy, PhD student with the EVOSS research group, won the Industry Impact Award as part of NUI Galway President’s Research Awards for Research at the University’s Research Showcase, for his work entitled ‘Strategising Cloud Service Provision: Deciphering the Business Model’. Trevor is part of Whitaker and Lero’s EVOSS group led by Dr. Kieran Conboy,...

Lero presence at EuroSPI conference

Another strong year for Lero at EuroSPI conference. Last week at the 21th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2014) Lero affiliated authors presented a total of 9 papers, with 6 paper in research track (published by Springer Verlag) and 3 papers in the industry experience track (published by Publizon). Those...

Lero wins industry commitments of over €400,000 for software modernisation programmes

Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, which is supported by Science Foundation Ireland, has won industry commitments worth in excess of €400,000 for software modernisation programmes. “The reality is that there is a lot of old software out there which is still at the heart of many critical applications, particularly in the area of...

New Journal – EAI Endorsed Transactions on Self-Adaptive Systems

The European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) (url: http://eai.eu/transaction/self-adaptive-systems) started a new journal entitled “EAI Endorsed Transactions on Self-Adaptive Systems” with Editor-in-Chief Emil Vassev. This journal seeks contributions from leading experts from research and practice of self-adaptive systems that will provide the connection between theory and practice with the ultimate goal to bring both the science...

Best Paper Award at SEAMS 2014

Liliana Pasquale received the Best Paper Award at the 9th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2014) for the paper titled “User-centric Adaptation of Multi-tenant Services: Preference-based Analysis for Service Reconfiguration” co-authored with Jesús García Galán, who was a visiting PhD sutdent in Lero, and Pablo Trinidad and Antonio Ruiz-Cortés...

Scratch 2014

The 2014 finals took place in the Printworks conference centre in Dublin Castle on Friday May 2nd. Project finalists set up at 11am and then the general public arrived to view all of the projects. Prizes were awarded once judging was completed in the afternoon. Prizes were given out to children from junior infants up...

Annual Lero-NII-OU Workshop

Bashar Nuseibeh and Liliana Pasquale, organised and attended the annual Lero-NII-OU Workshop, on 20-21 April 2014, and which this year was held at the MASDAR Institute, in MASDAR City, Abu Dhabi, UAE. The theme of this year’s workshop was “Software Engineering for Smart Cities”, in recognition of the the venue of the workshop – MASDAR...

Poor selection of ICT projects costs Irish business and public sector organisations millions of Euro

Study advocates wider use of project portfolio management controls Lero researchers in NUI Galway (from left) Dr. Kieran Conboy, Dr. Orla O’Dwyer andRoger Sweetman. Photo: Aengus McMahon Many companies and public sector organisations in Ireland are wasting millions of Euro through failure to select the right ICT (Information, Communications & Technology) projects to implement, according...