Category Archives: Architectural knowledge

Building and Leveraging Design Spaces for Architecting Contemporary Software Systems

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Ali

It was a great pleasure to visit the Secure Systems Group at the Aalto University of Finland. I was hosted by Professor N. Asokan, the leader of the group and a leading authority on different aspects of the security systems, … Continue reading →

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Our New Work on Self-Adaptive Security for large-scale Open Environments

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Ali

We are continuously progressing on the plan for strengthening our capabilities in Cyber Security. To achieve this goal, we have been not only building internal capabilities but also forming and leveraging strategic collaborations. Out of one of our recent collaborations, … Continue reading →

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Security Support in Continuous Deployment Pipeline

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Ali

Continuous Software Engineering has gained significant attraction in the software development industry. One of the key areas of Continuous Software Engineering is Development and Operation (DevOps) – according to which development and operations teams are brought together for better coordination, … Continue reading →

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An Approach to Designing and Evaluating Web of Things (WoT) Systems

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Ali

Internet of Things (IoT) have emerged a popular technology that underpinning several innovative products and services. Internet of Everything (IoE) or Web of Things (WoT) are real or virtual networks of things (or services) that can be meaningfully quarried or … Continue reading →

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A Reference Architecture for provisioning of Tools as a Service

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Ali

We have been developing and maturing a state of the art infrastructure for providing tools as a service. Our work has resulted in a reference architecture provides meta-models, Ontologies, quality attributes, and implementation of an instantiated cloud-based infrastructure for providing … Continue reading →

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Systemization of Knowledge about Architecting Cloud-Based Systems

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Ali

We have been expanding our research on engineering systems with/for Cloud based infrastructures. One of the key challenges of engineering cloud-based systems is designing and evaluating appropriate architectures. Being a relatively new area, knowledge about designing and evaluating cloud-based systems … Continue reading →

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Designing and Evolving Architectures for Big Data Applications

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Ali

Big Data applications are playing critical role for all sorts of organisations. Whilst data scientist is considered a critical role for big data applications, the role of software architect has become even more critical as appropriate design and careful implementation … Continue reading →

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Reference Architecture for Cloud-Based Tools as a Service Workspace Completed

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Ali

A few years ago we started an exciting and challenging project to design and implement a reference architecture for providing Tools as a Service (TaaS). That project was aimed at developing and evaluating an infrastructure that can host and provision … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Project with NICTA on Architecting for DevOps Starts

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Ali

We have recently started a collaborative project with the Software Systems Research Group of National ICT Australia in Sydney. The project is aimed at understanding and addressing new challenges for designing architectures of complex systems that would be following the … Continue reading →

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D2D CRC Project on Reference Architecture for Defence Big Data Systems

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Ali

Big Data systems (i.e., data-intensive applications) have become one of the key priority areas for all sorts of organizations (i.e., private or public). Big Data is usually characterized by huge amount of diverse set of data that cannot be easily … Continue reading →

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