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Research Centre on Software Technology (RCOST)

Università degli Studi del Sannio di Benevento

Abstract

This is a proposal to setup a multidisciplinary research Centre on software technologies. The Centre activities will focus on: process engineering for software systems and services production; business organization and management approaches for software enterprises; economics and legal issues of software and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the information and knowledge society. RCOST will be located in the internal area of the Campania Region. It aims to become an international excellence Centre, while providing an answer to the high request for medium and long-term research in the software related areas raised by a variety of actors. These actors include, but are not limited to, medium and large software enterprises grown in Campania and multinational corporates, which have branched - or are planning to branch - in Campania. The constantly increasing number of local software and software services SMEs also demands research and technologies.



The University of Sannio, Faculties of Economics and Engineering, will aid the Centre start-up with preexisting scientific competences and resources (human resources, laboratories, ongoing research projects, publications, prototypes and technological platforms), well and widely recognized at the international level. These local competences will be completed and complemented by contributions of other research Centres that operate in other Universities and are well recognized at the>>>

Principal Investigator

Aniello CIMITILE Università degli Studi del SANNIO di BENEVENTO

International Relationship

RCOST will directly collaborate with other research structures, in particular:

· Software Engineering Research Group of Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica of the University of Naples "Federico II" (Coordinator Prof. De Carlini);

· Software Engineering Research Group of Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemi e Produzione of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" (Coordinator Prof. Tucci);

· Managerial Engineering Research Group of Dipartimento di Ingegneria Economico-Gestionale of the University of Naples "Federico II" (Coordinator Prof. Raffa);

· Research Centre in Pure and Applied Mathematics - University of Salerno (Coordinator Prof. Salerno);

· Research Centre "Link" of Benevento;

· Research Centre of Benevento (CRB).



In addition, the following research groups will collaborate with RCOST:



· Software Engineering Research Group of Dipartimento di Informatica University of Bari, comprising: Prof. Giuseppe Visaggio (Full Professor), Prof. Filippo Lanubile (Associate Professor), dott. Alessandro Bianchi (Researcher), Dott. Danilo Caivano (Phd Student);

· A research unit of the Software Engineering Research Group of Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of Politecnico di Milano, comprising: Prof. Alfonso Fuggetta (Full Professor), Ing. Luigi Lavazza (Researcher);



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Research Objectives

The goal of RCOST consists of becoming one of the Italian leaders for the research and study on software technologies, able in particular to attract research contracts. It also aims at achieving an international acknowledgement as Centre of excellence in this field and promoting a world-wide interaction with well-known Italian and foreign researchers, through hospitality and mobility.

The Centre will establish:

· The Statute, defined and approved within three months by the academic committees of the University of Sannio;

· The International Scientific Committee, composed of 3 foreign and 2 Italian experts, with the aim of approving every three years the operative research themes and plans and verifying every year their execution;

· The Administrative Committee, chaired by the Chancellor of the University of Sannio, the Scientific Coordinator, the Deans of the involved Faculties or their delegates, and finally by a representatives of companies and enterprises, whose number and role will be defined by the Statute;

· The site;

· The administrative department and secretary (max-3-years contracts; 1 administrative director, 2 secretaries, 1 helper);

· The network, research laboratories, and technical staff (max-3-years contracts; 2 with laurea degree and 1 with a diploma degree);

· The non-permanent researchers, the PhD students (10 total; 4 in the software>>>