ITC / Software Engineering

The Software Engineering group (TASE) as a whole aims at developing efficient ways to produce better quality software in a predictable and economically sustainable way. With close collaboration with local industry, we ensure that research has practical value and teaching given by the research group is industry-relevant.

The TASE research group are currently engaged in, e.g., ProcemPlus ProCemPlus – SENECC, where the main objective is to study the formation of individual energy communities into broader business-oriented energy ecosystems through several research themes and concrete pilot-cases related to the development of energy communities and to analyze the role of microgrids and energy communities in the future energy ecosystem.

The role of the Software Engineering group is related to the design of the required information system and related software/platform economy. In, e.g., CityIoT we worked with data models involving energy. In project DisMa we have researched distributed management of electricity system, system architecture and control for distributed energy resources and microgrids. The SEIntS group is engaged in the KIEMI project, which aims to improve the energy efficiency of properties by finding the property and situation-specific ”energy minimum” – a situation where a minimum amount of energy is used while still preserving a comfortable environment within the building.

The goal is to improve the energy efficiency (via developing smart, portable, and cost-effective technical systems that can be utilized to enable energy savings) of older properties by means of new, innovative technical solutions. In the project, proof-of-concept demonstrations and prototype applications will be developed that illustrate how cost-effective, transparent, and modular solutions can be utilized to improve the energy efficiency of buildings.

Ongoing projects:

PI

Kari Systä

Professor
Software Engineering
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Tampere University
kari.systa@tuni.fi

Based on agreement - or when the door of my office (TF114) is open. I have returned to campus and seldom work from home.

Primary way of contacting: email.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7371-0773

More information

About me

Software, software engineeting and computer science enthusiastic since 1980. I'm nterested both in research and practise.

Responsibilities

My own teaching for 2022-2024 includes

Course COMP.SE.140 Continuous Development and Deployment - DevOps
Several Master Theses

A also look after

The study modules of Software Engineering and Web&Cloud
Software Engineering

Field of expertise

My main expertise areas are

Theory and practice of software engineering.
Web, edge and cloud software.

Phases of my career

1980-1985: Master studies and part-time teaching in Tampere University of technology
1985-1995: Various research projects, teaching tasks and PhD studies in Tampere University of technology
1995-2011: Several research and management roles in Nokia corporation
2012- : Professor of software engineering in Tampere University

Research topics

My current research topics & interests are

Data driven software engineering: how the data collected from software and its decision process can be used for more efficient development and better decision making.
Web as an application platform.
Software architectures for open IoT systems.
Advanced software solutions for modern energy systems.
Programmable world and edge computing.

Research unit

TASE - https://research.tuni.fi/tase/

Top achievements

Current projects

LiquidAI (2023-2025)

A BF funded project to develop Liquid Software for highly connected IoT-Edge-Cloud continuum. Compared to past efforts on Liquid Software, we in LiquidAI we consider Machine Learning components, too. This is a collaborative effort with University of Jyväskylä.

6GSoft (2023-2026)

A BF-funded project to address the following challenges: "Developing and managing 5G and especially 6G software will demand totally new software development methods, tools, processes, and architectures. We need novel industry-scale software engineering to support the integrated development of heterogeneous systems that include software platforms, cloud, big data, AI, edge, IoT, and quantum computing. The number of connected devices will explode, and they all have software. They range from micro-level devices with very limited processing capability to larger connected devices with strong processing power and large applications in the cloud. Different parts of the distributed systems are owned and managed by various stakeholders. Current architectures, orchestration, and scalability methods and tools are not capable of supporting such complex, heterogeneous, and highly distributed 6G software systems. In addition, the application of current technologies will create a very high energy overhead, due to the lack of optimization for such a large number of connected devices."
This is a collaboration project with University of Oulu, LUT University and University of Jyväskylä.

Microblock (2021-2023)

An EU-funded multi-disciplinary project to investigate use blockchain-based micro-credentials for study credits. For further informations see: https://www.tuni.fi/en/research/microblock-advancing-exchange-micro-credentials-ebsi-0

DELI (2023-2025)

A cross-disciplinary infrastructure (FIRI - Academy of Finland) project to build platforms and tools for energy researchj.

Recently ended projects

VISDOM is an international Eureka/ITEA3 project that develops new types of visualisations for software development. We concentrate visualisations that are based on data from several tools and our special focus is in DevOps-type projects. For further information, see the project-wide web-page: iteavisdom.org .
CityIoT vendor independent IoT platform for smart cities: For more information see https://pervasive.cs.tut.fi/?p=2820 and https://www.cityiot.fi/english/
ProcemPlus whose main objective of ProCemPlus project is to study the formation of individual energy communities into broader business-oriented energy ecosystems through several research themes and concrete pilot-cases related to the development of energy communities, and to analyze the role of microgrids and energy communities in the future energy ecosystem. The role of our team is related to design of the required information system and related software/platform economy. For more information see information about the earlier Procem-project and web-page of this new ProcemPlus project .

Selected publications

See, google scholar and similar places for the academic publications.

Together with my colleagues from the other universities in Finland we wrote a report (with recommendations) about software in Finland. See: https://www.alliedict.fi/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/AIF-2023_Ohjelmistot-Suomessa-korkeakoulukorjaus-1.pdf (in Finnish)

Co-PIs & emerging PIs

Toni Taipalus

Assistant Professor
ohjelmistotekniikka
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Tampere University
+358505291065
toni.taipalus@tuni.fi

https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4060-3431

Research staff

David Hästbacka

Associate Professor (tenure track)
Ohjelmistotekniikka
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Tampere University
+358405191506
david.hastbacka@tuni.fi

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About me

Leading a research group in the field of software engineering and informatics applied to industrial automation, production and energy systems. Research focus on system architecture, information system composition and integration platforms, and semantics for networked systems and services. Teaching and supervision related to Web and Cloud architectures and dependable IoT systems.

Ongoing projects:

Hedge-IoT (Horizon Europe, 2024-2027)
TwinfFlow (Business Finland, 2024-2027)
Arrowhead fPVN (EU Chips JU/Business Finland, 2023-2026)
DAZE (Business Finland, 2023-2026)
Metawave (Horizon Europe, 2024-2028)
GenerIoT (ITEA4/Business Finland, 2023-2025)
Industry X (Business Finland, 2022-2025)
TRINEFLEX (Horizon Europe, 2022-2026)
INGA (Integrated automation for distribution grid and DERs, Business Finland, 2022-2024)
AeroPolis (Academy of Finland, 2022-2024)

Past projects:

FEMMa (Future Electrified Mobile Machines, Business Finland, 2021-2024)
DisMa (Distributed Management of Electricity System, Academy of Finland, 2019-2023)
NIC (Nordic Interoperability Collaboration, Business Finland, 2021)
Productive4.0 (EC ECSEL/Business Finland, 2017-2020)
AIDOMUS (Research to business, Business Finland, 2019-2020)
SEMIS (Semantic Interoperability of Industrial Systems, Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher, 2017-2020)
COCOP (Coordinating Optimisation of Complex Industrial Processes, EU H2020, 2016-2020)
USE (Urban Smart Energy, Business Finland, 2017-2019)
S-Step (Business Finland, 2016-2017)
Arrowhead (EC ECSEL, 2013-2017)

Jari Soini

Research Manager
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Tampere University
+358408262890
jari.soini@tuni.fi

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ITC / Software Engineering

Ongoing projects:

→ ProCemPlus – SENECC

→ CityIoT

→ KIEMI

PI

Kari Systä

About me

Responsibilities

Field of expertise

Research topics

Research unit

Current projects

Co-PIs & emerging PIs

Toni Taipalus

Research staff

David Hästbacka

About me

Jari Soini