The Vinnova-financed competence center Continuous Digitalization, CoDig, at Chalmers University of Technology, is set up to enable transforming the software-intensive systems industry into a digitised industry that can fully benefit from next-generation computing and communications infrastructure. One focus area within CoDig is continuous and automated quality assurance, where the research activity takes place at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA) at LiU. Kristian Sandahl, Professor at SAS, is the theme leader of the new project in close collaboration with D谩niel Varr贸, Professor, SAS.
Kristian Sandahl, what is the background of the project?
"LiU has been part of the Software Center research consortium since 2014 together with four other universities and 14 companies. Within the consortium, we have conducted industry-related research in software technology and product development. In addition, we have done some work with business models for software-intensive systems. In recent years, we have looked more and more into data-driven development and management of systems containing artificial intelligence, AI, and machine learning, ML."
What are you aiming to achieve?
"At IDA, we have been most active in integration, testing and quality assurance of software and we have examined a PhD student in the field, Azeem Ahmad. Since 2022, we have focused on testing and quality assurance of AI/ML systems and software generated by AI models.
Our goal is to develop robust methods and techniques that can increase trust in these systemsOur goal is to develop robust methods and techniques that can increase the trust in these systems in order to be able to automate large parts of quality assurance, integration and delivery. We also have an interest in sustainability, where we collaborate with Vinnova and other competence centers."
Funding and participants
The project is funded until December 2028 with SEK 5 610 000 from Vinnova, after which an evaluation takes place with the possibility of continued funding. In total, the LiU project will turn over close to SEK 18 million over five years, one third of which is the grant from Vinnova, one third from companies, and one third from LiU.
In addition to Kristian Sandahl and D谩niel Varr贸, the PhD students Yiran Wang, Xin Sun and Masoud Sadrnezhaad are directly involved in the project, together with SAS Adjunct Associate Professors Daniel St氓hl (Ericsson) and Torvald M氓rtensson (Saab). Jos茅 Antonio Hern谩ndez L贸pez, postdoc, and the PhD student Willem Meijer are associated to the project.
Through D谩niel Varr贸, Yiran Wang and the associated participants, the project is also linked to WASP, Wallenberg AI autonomous systems and software program, Sweden's largest individual research programme.
More information
- The companies contributing via Vinnova are: Axis Communication, DEIF, Ericsson, Grundfos, Jeppesen Systems, Saab, Scania, Siemens, Tetra Pak, Volvo Car Cooperation, and Volvo technology. Other companies are: Advenica, Bosch, and ZenseAct.
