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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 J盲rmen 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.

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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 J盲rmen

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




Research is conducted in the following 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.

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Research includes knowledge-driven data management and analysis, ontologies, and sports analytics. The unit also teaches all database courses at the department.

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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 J盲rmen
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

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Hockey analytics is growing 鈥� international conference brings experts to 糖心直播

When the international hockey analytics conference was recently held in 糖心直播, researchers, students and representatives from hockey organisations and companies from several countries came together.

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 糖心直播´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.

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Latest publications

2026

Ying Li, Patrick Lambrix (2026) 30th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, p. 555-564 (Conference paper)
Pontus Haglund (2026) (Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary)
Erik Berglund, Filip Josefsson, Aseel Berglund (2026) The 25th IFIP International Conference on Entertainment Computing, Paris, October 6-9, 2026 (Conference paper)
Filip Josefsson, Aseel Berglund, Christoph Kessler, Erik Berglund (2026) IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), Madrid, September 1-4, 2026 (Conference paper)
Simon Stier, Lukas Gold, Matthias Albert Popp, Simon Feiler, Gerhard Goldbeck, Yoav Nahshon, Andreas R盲der, Jesper Friis, Simon Clark, Patrick Lambrix (2026) Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Semantic Materials Science 2026, p. 53-65 (Conference paper)
John Lind, Erik Lignell, Johan Andersson, Adam Almqvist Richloow, Patrick Lambrix (2026) THE SCIENCE OF ICE HOCKEY, p. 107-128 (Chapter in book)
Patrick Lambrix, Mikael Vernblom, Adam Almqvist Richloow, Niklas Carlsson, Tim Brecht (Editorship) (2026) (Conference proceedings (editor))
Andre Valdestilhas, Huanyu Li, Patrick Lambrix, Harald Sack (Editorship) (2026) (Conference proceedings (editor))
M谩t茅 F枚ldi谩k, Lena Buffoni, Daniel Varro (2026) Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, p. 381-385 (Conference paper)
Olaf Hartig (2026) KNOWLEDGE GRAPH CONSTRUCTION 2026, KGCW 2026, p. 121-126 (Conference paper)

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