Our research
The SAGE group focuses on methods and tools for Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence applied to ecosystem management IT systems.
Areas of research
Domain definitions
Ecosystem management encompasses plenty of society-critical software applications, e.g. decision-making applications for restoration of degrade ecosystems, monitoring and prediction software applications for the natural ecosystem disruptions (flood, forest fire, etc.). In this critical context, our group focuses on the development of rigorous methods, and open-source tools to deal with the large amount of heterogeneous Earth Observation data. Moreover, our group studies the integration of artificial intelligence in the software engineering research area. We develop open source tools to support our languages and to allow for research collaboration or technology transfer with industrial partners, policymakers, governmental and non-governmental organizations. SAGE aims to offer novel and efficient approaches for engineers to ensure the rigorous system development of ecosystem management software applications based on artificial intelligence.
Specific fields are currently under important development:
- software engineering methods and tools for neural networks engineering
- software engineering methods and tools for natural ecosystems restoration
A new lecture on the SAGE topics has been pre-designed, submitted and accepted to be included in the 3rd semester of the Master in Computer Science for 2023/2024.