Software Engineering and Systems Research (SESRes)

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur UP 208016 India

Research Theme

A theme central to our research is software engineering (SE) and software architecture (SA). We investigate several areas in systems from SE and SA perspective.

Areas

Cloud Computing
Semantic Web
Appification of Web

Internet Operating System
Collaboration Technologies
Computing on Mobile Platforms

Knowledge Management
Big Data Analytics
Game Theoretic Software Engineering

Virtualization Technologies
Business Process Modeling

People

Researchers

	Amrita Chaturvedi Ontologies in Software Architecture
	Ashish Agrawal Software architecture on Cloud platforms
	Balwinder Sodhi Software architecture on Cloud platforms
	Prabhakar, T.V.
	Saurabh Srivastava Software Engineering and Architecture, Microservices, Cloud Computing
	Sumit Kalra Machine learning, Big data analytics, Mobile and Cloud computing

M.Tech/Research Study Projects

Alumni (Partial list) [+]

Our Work

Recent Publications (From 2010)

Sumit Kalra and Prabhakar TV. Towards Dynamic Tenant Management for Microservice based Multi-Tenant SaaS Applications. To appear in Proceedings of the 11th Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (ISEC'18), India. (accepted)
Sumit Kalra and Prabhakar TV. Implementation Patterns for Multi-Tenancy. In Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP'17), Canada, 2017.
Sumit Kalra and Prabhakar TV. Focus Group on Patterns for Big Data Processing Systems. In Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP'17), Canada, 2017.
Sumit Kalra and Prabhakar TV. Internal Quality to External Quality - an Approach to Manage Conflicts. In Proceedings of the Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems (ACM RACS'17), Poland, 2017.
Sumit Kalra and Prabhakar TV. Patterns for Managing Tenants in a Multi-tenant Application. In Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP'17), Germany, 2017.
Sumit Kalra and Prabhakar TV. The Multi-tenant Pattern. In Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP'16), USA, 2016.
Ashish Agrawal and Prabhakar TV. Towards a Framework for Building SaaS Applications Operating in Diverse and Dynamic Environments. In Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA'16), Denmark, 2016.
Sumit Kalra, Prabhakar TV, and Saurabh Srivastava. An architectural roadmap towards building an alarm diffusion system, in New Trends in Databases and Information Systems, ser. Communications in Computer and Information Science, T. Morzy, P. Valduriez, and L. Bellatreche, Eds. Springer International Publishing, 2015, vol. 539, pp. 536–546.
Ashish Agrawal and Prabhakar TV. Towards a Framework for Building Adaptive App-based Web Applications using Dynamic Appification. In Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA'15), Croatia, 2015.
Ashish Agrawal and Prabhakar TV. AutoQA: quality attributes as a service in cloud. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1464-1467, 2015
Amrita Chaturvedi, Prabhakar TV. Ontology driven creational design patterns as parameterized and reusable components. In: ACM SIGAPP Applied Computing Review Journal (ACM ACR 2014), ACM Press, 14, 1, 2014.
Amrita Chaturvedi, Prabhakar TV. Ontology driven builder pattern – a plug and play component. In the 29th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2014), ACM Press, Gyeongju, Korea, March 2014.
Javier Belmonte, Philippe Dugerdil, and Ashish Agrawal. A three-layer model of source code comprehension. In Proceedings of the 7th India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC '14), India, 2014.
Amrita Chaturvedi, Prabhakar TV. Ontology driven creational design patterns – creating objects on the fly. In: Proceedings of International Conference on Reliable and Convergent Systems (ACM RACS 2013), ACM Press, Montreal, Canada. (October 2013) 312 – 321.
Amrita Chaturvedi, Prabhakar TV. Ontology driven observer pattern. In: International Workshop on Ontologies meet Advanced Information Systems (OAIS 2013) in conjunction with 17 th East-European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2013), Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Genova, Italy. (September 2013) 307 – 316.
Ashish Agrawal, Balwinder Sodhi and Prabhakar TV. A Multi-dimensional Measure for Intrusion - the Intrusiveness Quality Attribute. In the 9th International ACM Sigsoft Conference on the Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA 2013), June 2013, Vancouver, Canada.
Amrita Chaturvedi and Prabhakar TV. Ontological Visitor Pattern. In The Indian Conference on Patterns and Pattern languages of Programs, March 2013, Bangalore, India.
Ashish Agrawal and Prabhakar TV. Hospitality of Cloud Platforms. In The 28th ACM Symposim on Applied Computing-SAC 2013, March 2013, Coimbra, Portugal.
Amrita Chaturvedi and Prabhakar TV. Ontology - Driven MVC: A Variant Of MVC Architectural Style. In The International Conference on Software Engineering and New Technologies (ICSENT 2012), December 2012, Hammamet. (Best Paper Award)
Balwinder Sodhi and Prabhakar TV. Assessing Platform Suitability for Achieving Quality in Guest Applications. In The 19th IEEE Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (IEEE APSEC 2012), December 2012, Hong Kong.
Balwinder Sodhi and Prabhakar TV. Cloud Platforms: Impact on Guest Application Quality Attributes. In The 2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (IEEE APSCC 2012). December, 2012, Guilin, China.
Balwinder Sodhi and Prabhakar TV. Performance Characteristics of Virtualized Platforms from Applications Perspective. In International Conference on Data Management in Cloud, Grid and P2P Systems (Globe 2012). September, 2012 in Vienna, Austria. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(LNCS), Springer.
Balwinder Sodhi, Ashish Agrawal and Prabhakar TV. Appification of Web Applications: Architectural Aspects. In 2012 IEEE Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing (MobiCC 2012). August 2012 in Beijing, China.
Balwinder Sodhi and Prabhakar TV. Cloud-oriented platforms: Bearing on Application Architecture and Design patterns. In proceedings of The IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2012), June 2012 Honolulu, Hawaii USA.
Ashish Agrawal, Balwinder Sodhi and Prabhakar TV. Lift - A mechanism for Composing Virtual App-clusters from Heterogeneous Apps. In The Proceedings of 13th ACM/IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2012), May 2012, Denver, Colorado, USA.
Balwinder Sodhi and Prabhakar TV. An architecture for enterprise PC cloud, Int. J. Computational Science and Engineering, Vol. 7,No. 4, pp.296-307 (InderScience IJCSE), 2012.
Balwinder Sodhi and Prabhakar TV. A cloud architecture using smart nodes. In proceedings of The 2011 IEEE Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC 2011), December 2011, Jeju Island, Korea.
Balwinder Sodhi and Prabhakar TV. A design pattern to decouple data from markup. In proceedings of The 12th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies (EC-Web 2011), August 2011, Toulouse, France. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP), Springer.
Balwinder Sodhi and Prabhakar TV. Assessing suitability of cloud oriented platforms for application development. In proceedings of The 9th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2011). June 2011, Boulder Colorado, USA.
Ashish Agrawal. 2011. Semantics of business process vocabulary and process rules. In Proceedings of the 4th India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC '11).
Balwinder Sodhi and Prabhakar TV. Application architecture considerations for cloud platforms. In proceedings of 2011 Third IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2011). January 2011, Bangalore, India.
Kiran Kumar, and Prabhakar TV. Pattern-oriented Knowledge Model for Architecture Design. Pattern Languages of Programs Conference 2010, October 15-18 2010. Reno/Tahoe Nevada, USA.
Kiran Kumar, and Prabhakar TV. Design Decision Topology Model for Pattern Relationship Analysis. Asian Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs 2010, March 15-17 2010. Tokyo, Japan.

Older Publications[+]

Semantic 'LS' - An Approach for Personal and Private Group Information Management PIM2008 workshop/ACM SIGCHI 2008, (April 5-9, 2008) Florence,Italy. Ajay Krishnan, M.S.Ramaiah, Vinay Kumar Jaasti, TV Prabhakar
Transformation of SBVR Business Design to UML Models,ISEC 2008(February 19-22, 2008) Amit Raj, TV Prabhakar, Stan Hendryx Hyderabad,India
ArchVoc:Towards an Ontology For Software Architecture Lenin Babu Thummalapalli, Seetharamaih M, Prabhakar T.V., Rambabu D SHARK/ADI 2007@ ICSE 2007, May 2007, Minneapolis.
Helping Architects In Retrieving Architecture Documents: A Semantic Based Approach Rambabu Duddukuri1, Prabhakar T.V. SMR@VLDB 2007, Sept 2007, Seoul
Sentence Level Sentiment Analysis in the Presence of Conjuncts Using Linguistic Analysis Arun Meena and T.V. Prabhakar 29th ECIR 2007, April 2007, Rome
Agrovisual, An Open Source Approach to a Visual Thesaurus for Agriculture Singh, J., Prabhakar, T.V., and Chatterjee, J International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries, ICSO 2007, Bangalore, India, February 2007.
Towards Digital Ecosystems for Skill Based Industrial Clusters: Lessons from the DEAL Project Sarkar, R., Chatterjee, J. and Prabhakar, T.V. IEEE International Digital Ecosystems and Technology Conference, Cairns, Australia Feb 2007.
OntoViz: Visualizing Ontologies and Thesauri Using Layout Algorithms Gagandeep Singh, Prabhakar T.V, Jayanta Chatterjee AOS@AFITA 2006, Nov 2006, Bangalore
From the Policy Framework for Competitive Agriculture to a Knowledge Ecosystem Development Process-Some Empirical Findings Sarkar, R., Chatterjee, J. and Prabhakar, T.V. Symposium on Competitiveness in the Knowledge Economy: Imperatives of Change at IMI, Delhi, November, 2006.
Managing Agri-Knowledge Diffusion in Rural India Singh, M.D., Chatterjee, J. and Prabhakar, T.V 5th Conference of the Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, AOS Section, Bangalore, India, November 2006.
Onto Viz : Visualizing Ontologies and Thesauri using Layout Algorithms Prabhakar, T.V., Singh, G., and Chatterjee, J 7th International Agricultural Ontology Services Workshop in collaboration with FAO, Rome at AFITA 2006, Bangalore, India, November 2006.
An Approach to Workflow Modeling and Analysis(with Hemant Kr. Meena, Indradeep Saha, Koushik Kr. Mondal), ETX, OOPSLA, October 2005 (view)
On to action - Building a Digital Ecosystem for Knowledge Diffusion in Rural India( with Jayanta Chatterjee), October 2005 (view)
Some Experiments with the Performance of LAMP Architecture( with UV Ramana), CIT, September 2005, Shanghai (view)
Dynamic Selection of Web Services with a Recommendation System,(with Umardand Shripad Manikrao) , T.V.Prabhakar, International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices, August 2005, Seoul, Korea (view)

Selected Projects

Agropedia

Agropedia is a digital knowledge repository with the open platform for learning and sharing information related to Indian agriculture. The content is semantically catalogued and easy to find. This agricultural encyclopaedia is being designed as a sub project of the knowledge management initiative of National Agricultural Innovation Project(www.naip.icar.org.in) in support of agriculturalextension and outreach.

Agrotag

Agrotags was envisaged as a collection of terms that would be used to tag digital information objects (DIOs) in the agriculture area. The main aim is to normalize tagging process in order to make more efficient and simpler searching and provide most efficient resources to the user.
Agrotags's pedigree has been Agrovoc - the agricultural thesaurus from FAO. The ongoing efforts to enrich Agrovoc to ontology is widely known (AIMS website). Agrovoc is also working on mapping onto leading thesauri such as NAL, CABI and MeSH, this provides documents tagged with Agrotags rich interconnection with documents tagged with other thesauri. The inherent power of Agrovoc to convert a term into 19 languages provides an added advantage. Applications built using Agrotags as an assisting-knowledge layer would have greater reach.
The advantages offered by a semantically-tagged knowledge repository for agriculture was already ascertained by efforts such as the agropedia. Agrovoc has provided the glue for the semantic inference in this endeavor.

CQL

CQL is a query language for cloud platforms

Teaching

CS 654: Software Architecture
CS 655: Object Oriented Software Modeling
CS 697: Special Topics in Computer Science and Engineering
CS 727: Topics in Internet Technologies
CS 797: Special Advance Topics in Computer Science