Central Concerns and Questions

Flexibility and efficiency of enterprise software applications are often at odds with each other - customizing generic packaged applications is expensive and migrating these customized applications to newer platforms is often a nightmare. We study mechanisms and methodologies that weaken this tradeoff between flexibility and efficiency in enterprise application development.

Emerging Ideas and Initiatives

• Effect of coupling and cohesion in impacting program comprehension and evolution of object-oriented systems
• Role of model-based component development methodology to achieve business agility
• Techniques to discover customization capability of systems

Selected Publications

[1] R. Subramanyam, N.Ramasubbu, and M.S. Krishnan. Business Flexibility and Model-Driven Component-Based Software Development. ISR workshop for the special issue on flexible and distributed information systems development, The Irish Software Engineering Research Center, Limerick, Ireland, March 2008.

[2] S. Ethiraj, N. Ramasubbu, and M.S. Krishnan. Does Complexity Affect Innovation: An Empirical Analysis of Communications Software Product Development. Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Hawaii, August 2005.

Collaborations and Industry Linkages

1. Tektronix
2. Ramco systems