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Giancarlo Succi Professor  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of Alberta

Table of Contents

• Credentials
• Addresses
• Overview of the Research Activity
• Current Research Projects
• Teaching Activity
• Professionals Activities
• Conferences I am involved
• What I am currently writing
• Topic for Thesis

Credentials

Laurea (Electrical Engineering, Universita' di Genova) 1988
PEng (Italy) 1991
M.S.   (Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo) 1991
Ph.D.  (Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universita' di Genova) 1993
PEng (APPEGA) 1999

Proud father of Elena Maria Succi, May 21, 1998

Addresses

		Civil/Electrical Engineering Building The University of Alberta Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2G7
		Tel: (780)492-7228
		Fax: (780)492-1811
		Giancarlo.Succi@ee.ualberta.ca

Overview of the Research Activity

Dr. Succi research has started providing a single programming paradigm for different  computer architectures through a generic parallel compiler for a set  based logic language; this compiler has been ported to the CM2, to the Transputer, and to various Unix Machines (Suns, HPs, Linux, ...). Then a library for reusable artifacts has been designed and developed; currently, this library has been ported to Java.

The focus of the current research is on the effects of integrating a reuse policy inside a software development process, in terms of programming language, process maturity, productivity, quality, long term returns of investment, effects on the market structure, relevant accounting techniques, and legal issues.

Other work regards the use of the Internet as the base for software engineering environments, the process for defining standards in software engineering, object oriented, especially frameworks, statistics for software engineers, and the role of modularity in software engineering environments.

Dr. Succi co-directs the Quantitative Software Engineering (QuaSE) Lab at the University of Alberta and the Alberta Software Engineering Research Consortium.

Current Research Projects

1. WebMetrics, a tool to collect software engineering metrics data over the internet
2. WebCODS, a tool for Internet-based software component brokerage
3. Sherlock, a system to identify reusable component in an application domain
4. Holmes, a tool to support the application of the Sherlock methodology
5. Pescarenico, an object oriented  toolset based on use cases and activity based costing to model, improve, and reengineer the business process of a firm
6. The development of empirical model for the impact of Software Reuse, Object Orientation, and other so-called software best practices on Quality and Productivity
7. Applying statistics to Software Engineering
8. The design and development of the next generation reuse library

Teaching Activity

Fall 2000:

• EE 601 A1, Advanced Modeling Techniques in Software Engineering
• EE 601 A5, Introduction to Quantitative Software Engineering

Winter 2000:

• CMPE 210, Principles of Software Implementation

• CMPE 310, Applying Software Engineering Practices Project I

• EE 602 V6, Software Engineering Metrics, Experiments, and Models

• EE 602 B8, Research Methods in Quantitative Software Engineering

Details on the courses taught recently at the University of Calgary can be found clicking here...

Professional Activities

• Professional Engineer (Genova, Italy; and Alberta, Canada)
• Evaluator of Esprit Project for the European Commission
• Member of the Editorial Board of ACM StandardView
• Official consultant of the Court of Genova
• Consultant for several private and public bodies in Europe and North America

Conferences I am involved

Running

• 2001 International Conference on Software Engineering
• Second International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering - XP2001

Past

• Sixth International Conference on Software Reuse
• First International Conference on eXtreme Programming and Flexible Processes in Software Engineering - XP2000
• ICSE 2000 Workshop on Software Product Lines
• ACM Symposium on Software Reuse 99
• Fifth International Conference on Software Reuse

What I am currently writing

I am currently writing papers on the effects of reuse on quality, and productivity; on the definition of standards in software; on comparative metrics for different programming paradigms; on domain analysis and engineering.

A categorized selection of my some of my most recent papers ... has yet to come (sigh!).

A rough collection is here...

Topics for theses

The theses I am currently offering regard:

• Development of tools to extract and manipulate software reuse metrics in different environments
• New version of a tool supporting process reuse
• Application of statistical techniques to software reuse metrics
• Modeling network externalities in software firms

The software development part in the thesis is usually done in Java in Windows environment. If you are truly interested in any of them, or if you simply want to get more information about them, please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are simply interested in working with me, please contact me, but do not try to grab some keywords from my papers and build an artificial research plan; rather tell me frankly what you would like to do and what are your goals and objectives ... I like a lot honest and creative   people !!!!

  Last update: May 5, 2000.