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This is LUCAS

LUCAS - Center for Applied Software Research was established in late 1999 as a research center at Lund Institute of Technology, Lund University, Sweden. The center is aimed at gathering the competence on applied software research at Lund Institute of Technology into a network, which today comprises about 40 researchers of which half are faculty members and half are Ph. D. students. The research of LUCAS covers three thematic areas:

The center is funded by VINNOVA (the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems), Swedish industry and Lund Institute of Technology.

Objective
Industry relevance is a key issue for the LUCAS research and much of the research is conducted in joint projects with primarily Swedish, but also international industry. During tha last years LUCAS has deepened the common interface to our industrial partners and members. A wide spectrum of involved groups offer a variety of application domains, which gives LUCAS unique possibilities to perform software research. Examples of joint efforts are co-funding of Ph. D. students and using industrial projects as research objects. A course in Software Engineering for technical managers at Sony Ericsson and the LUCAS Architecture Academy and LUCAS Test Academy are other examples of industry-academia interaction where both parties win knowledge and experiences.

LUCAS enters the future well confident in its ability to serve its purpose:

to stay on the competitive edge on applied software research
to offer results to industry for future software development project
to provide education and training to fulfill industry needs

Organzational Structure of LUCAS
A typical LUCAS research project is built on a combination of senior researchers, Ph. D. students and one or more industry partner. The figure below illustrates the internal and external organization of LUCAS.

The board consists of representatives form the participating companies. The management group consists of representatives from the three departments of Lund Institute of Technology:

LUCAS impact

LUCAS researchers has contributed significantly to a number of important changes in the software engineering industry. The means for the industry relation are very iterative. The early research identifies issues on the leading edge, based on industry needs. Research develops and evaluates new technologies, possibly as pilot studies, thus supporting early industry implementation. If proven successful, the techniques can be merged into industry practice.

LUCAS works with companies in all stages of development; large, mature companies which are successful on the international scene, smaller but already established companies that are maturing and small startups that are working on their first product. The level and the content of the interaction often evolves with the maturing of the companies.

External funding 1999-2005

Funder	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	(kkr)
	4 180	10 141	9 624	13 051	13 370	10 617	14 619	75 602
EU				2 752	2 248	3 282	6 048	14 330
ITEA							1 183	1 183
Krisberedskapsmyndigheten						1 050	1 224	2 274
NUTEK	805	804						1 609
SSF		480	480	1 460	820	509	679	4 428
VINNOVA	3 375	6 167	4 386	5 290	8 120	4 211	3 146	34 695
Vetenskapsrådet							1 312	1 312
Swedish industry	750	6 925	8 023	5 798	1 948	1 288	750	25 482
International industry					232	275	275	782

Last update: Thursday, 09-Mar-2006 13:57:39 CET