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Software and Systems (SAS)

The Division of Software and Systems is part of the Department of Computer and Information Science. The division conducts research and education in software engineering and computer systems.

A person sits in front of a computer screen and handles a floor robot Photo credit Jonas Järmen Research and education are conducted in the following areas:

  • Software Engineering
  • Programming Models and Environments
  • Software and System Modelling and Simulation
  • System Software
  • Embedded/Cyberphysical Software/Hardware Systems
  • Computer Systems Engineering
  • Real-Time Systems and System Dependability
  • Parallel and Distributed Software and Systems
  • Software and System Verification and Testing

Research

The research activities covers both basic research and projects in cooperation with industry - projects are or have been conducted in cooperation with ABB Robotics, ABB Industrial Systems, Ericsson Softlab AB, Ericsson Radio Systems, Ericsson Telecom, SKF, Saab, Saab Dynamics, Saab Combitech and several other companies.

Hands on laptop keyboard, a circuit board in the background Photo credit Jonas Järmen
In addition, the research activities include several long-term open-source system development efforts, such as the framework for object-oriented equation-based modeling and simulation of cyberphysical systems, and the high-level programming framework for heterogeneous parallel systems.

Nine full professors, eight associate/assistant professors and several postdocs are involved in the research together with about 25 graduate students.

Students listening to a teacher pointing to an example at a big screen. Photo credit Jonas Järmen

The is a permanent series of open seminars with topics related to research at the division.




Research is conducted in three laboratories


Codesign and design for testability of embedded/cyberphysical hardware/software systems and formal methods for embedded systems.


Software engineering tools and architectures, large-scale software engineering, model-based software engineering, programming languages and systems, including compilers, debuggers, testing tools, and programming tools for parallel, distributed and real-time systems.


Dependable systems and networks, including reliability, safety and security, resource efficiency with respect to computation capacity, memory, bandwidth and energy.

Education

The division accounts for a significant share of the department's comprehensive undergraduate and master-level education activities, operating about 70 undergraduate/master-level courses per year as well as providing final-thesis supervision.Group of students working on computers.. Photo credit Jonas Järmen
The undergraduate teaching activities are jointly carried out by the researchers and by the UPP education group for programming and programming didactics, which consists of about ten full-time university teachers and many teaching assistants.

Doctoral studies are offered in the field of Computer Science.


News at SAS

News and major articles

First researchers in the new Fenomenmagasinet

When the science centre Fenomenmagasinet opens its new premises in the Valla leisure area, it also opens the possibility of closer collaboration with LiU. Researchers Aseel and Erik Berglund will be among the first to move in.

Mikael Asplund in the cybersecurity lab.

New cybersecurity lab at LiU

The new cybersecurity lab is a milestone in 91ÊÓÆµ´s investment in education in this field. The students should feel that "wow, it's possible to do something exciting here", said Vice-rector Matts Karlsson at the inauguration on 7 May.

Two silhouettes in profile in underground tunnel.

The researchers who need to be one step ahead

Today’s society rests on cyber security and the ability to be one step ahead of hackers. In recent years, a new threat has emerged – AI. However, according to researchers Elisa Bertino and Simin Nadjm-Tehrani, AI could also be part of the solution.

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Latest publications

2025

Yaning Xiao, Hao Cui, Ruba Abu Khurma, Abdelazim Hussien, Pedro A. Castillo (2025) International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 2025, Article 5054424 (Article in journal)
Klervie Tocze, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani (2025) PROCEEDINGS OF THE 16TH ACM/SPEC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING, ICPE 2025, p. 347-354 (Conference paper)
David Speck, Markus Hecher, Daniel Gnad, Johannes Klaus Fichte, Augusto B. Corrêa (2025) Proceedings of the 39th annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p. 26688-26696 (Conference paper)
Helena Orädd, Erik Berglund, Aseel Berglund (2025)
Torvald Mårtensson (2025) Journal of hand and microsurgery, Vol. 17, Article 112479 (Article in journal)
Sogol Masoumzadeh, Nuno Saavedra, Rungroj Maipradit, Lili Wei, Joao F. Ferreira, Daniel Varro, Shane McIntosh (2025) IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 51, p. 1472-1486 (Article in journal)
Ali Toufanzadeh Mozhdehi, Nima Khodadadi, Mohaddeseh Aboutalebi, El-Sayed M. El-kenawy, Abdelazim Hussien, Weiguo Zhao, Mohammad H. Nadimi-Shahraki, Seyedali Mirjalili (2025) Cluster Computing, Vol. 28, Article 345 (Article in journal)
Pawel Czarnul, Marcel Antal, Hamza Baniata, Dalvan Griebler, Attila Kertesz, Christoph Kessler, Andreas Kouloumpris, Salko Kovacic, Andras Markus, Maria K. Michael, Panagiota Nikolaou, Isil Oz, Radu Prodan, Gordana Rakic (2025) Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 81, Article 848 (Article in journal)
Jialing Yan, Gang Hu, Heming Jia, Abdelazim Hussien, Laith Abualigah (2025) Journal of Big Data, Vol. 12, Article 114 (Article in journal)
Ahmad Usman, Mikael Asplund (2025) 40th IFIP International Conference, SEC 2025, Maribor, Slovenia, May 21–23, 2025, Proceedings, p. 97-110 (Conference paper)

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