This project was conducted as part of the Ph.D. disseration of Amine Chigani, and was supervised by Dr. Osman Balci. The Ph.D. committee consisted of 4 other faculty who contributed to guide this work:
More information about Amine Chigani's research can be found here: http://www.aminechigani.com/site/research.html
The work described herein took place between the Fall of 2007 and the Spring of 2010. Several collaborators within the Mobile Software Engineering Lab have helped shape and guide this work to where it is today.
The objective of this research was to to address the challenges and issues that were raised in the aftermath of April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech. Due to the lack of proper problem formulation, campus safety solutions that exist today lack coherence and efficacy. Only through considering institutions as a coherent enterprise with external partners can we address this issue properly. Through the study of the panel reviews analyzing the events of April 16 and other similar incidents, we established a comprehensive framework from which this issue can be addressed. This framework is built on three different components: Situational awareness, security control, and emergency reponse management .
Chigani, A. and O. Balci (2011), “The Process of Architecting for Software/System Engineering,” International Journal of System of Systems Engineering (IJSSE). (to appear in upcoming issue)
Chigani, A., R. Barkhi, and O. Balci (2011), “Decision Support for Campus Emergency Response Management,” Journal of Decision Support Systems (DSS). (submitted)
Chigani, A and O. Balci (2011), “Architecting, Specifying, and Evaluating a Network-Centric System of Systems: SINERGY Case Study,” ACM Transactions on Software Engineering (in progress)
Chigani, A. and O. Balci (2011), “A Structured Approach for Assessing the Security of a SOA-based Network-Centric System of Systems,” 9th IEEE Conference on Web Services, Lugano, Switzerland. (in progress)
Barrett, M.L., A, Bener, S. Chenoweth, A. Chigani, and L.G. Jones (2010), “Incorporating Software Architecture in the Computing Curriculum,” In 23rd IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET), Pittsburgh, PA.
Chigani, A. (2010), “Agile Architecting: Using Agile Principles to Agilitize the Architecting Process,” In 6th Software Architecture Technology User Network Conference (SATURN), Minneapolis, MN.
Chigani, A. and O. Balci (2009), “Assessing the Security of an SOA-based Network-Centric System,” Doctoral Symposium, In 11th International Conference on Software Reuse, Falls Church, VA.
Chigani, A., J.D. Arthur and S. Bohner (2007) “Architecting Network-Centric Software Systems: A Style-based Beginning,” In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (in conjunction with 3rd IEEE Systems and Software Week), Columbia, Maryland, pp. 290-299.
Chigani, A. and J.D. Arthur (2007), “The Implications of Network-Centric Software Systems on Software Architecture: A Critical Evaluation,” In Proceedings of the 45th ACM Southeast Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, pp. 75-80.
Chigani, A. (2007), “Guiding Network-Centric Architectural Design: A Style-based Approach,” Master’s Thesis etd-12262007-133121, Digital Library and Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.
Chigani, A. (2006), “Software Architectures for Network-Centric Systems,” In Proceedings of the ACM Mid-Southeast Conference, Gatlinburg, TN, pp. 43. Master’s Thesis
