Software Engineering Research Group
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria

Research Activity

The research group defines and applies data analysis methods in the empirical software engineering context, defines conceptual and operational tools for software quality analysis, defines, evaluates and validates software measures, defines solutions able to guarantee security and privacy in wireless sensor networks, characterized by limited power consumption, defines solutions able to guarantee security and privacy, access control and policy enforcement, in the Internet of Things (IoT) context.
More in detail, the research is oriented towards the definition of distributed and scalable architectures, models and mechanisms to guarantee adequate levels of quality, protocols and middleware for the analysis and sharing of information and services. Proper techniques are adopted to ensure efficient sharing and storage of information, manage data caching and provide information about the reliability, security and quality of the services. Vulnerabilities' analysis, the definition of scalable and efficient encryption protocols, and the definition of frameworks for defining and enforcing access control policies and privacy preferences are also addressed.
In the area of empirical software engineering, current research involves studying and defining statistical models that correlate external software qualities (such as reliability, maintainability, etc.) with internal software attribute (e.g., size, complexity, coupling, cohesion, etc.) measures. A specific emphasis is on defining new methods and assessing existing models. In addition, current research is about the estimation of time and costs related to the industrial development of software product, with the goal of improving prediction accuracy, especially based on the information available in the early phases of software development.