Laboratory for Software Design

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The laboratory for software design at Iowa State University conducts research in programming languages, compilers and software engineering. Our overarching goal is to develop tools and techniques that enable better design of software intensive systems: a better design that is easier and cheaper to implement, verify and sustain and that is more portable across computing platform differences.

Our research meetings are in 105 Atanasoff Hall on Mondays from 1-2pm.

Faculty		Current Students
Hridesh Rajan		Mehdi Bagherzadeh [PhD]
		Patrick Carlson [PhD]
		M. Ali Darvish-Darab [PhD]
		Robert Dyer [PhD]
		Rex Fernando [Undergraduate]
		Youssef Hanna [PhD]
		Sarah Kabala [PhD]
		Yuheng Long [PhD]
		Sean Mooney [PhD]
		Ganesha Upadhayaya [MS]
		Marjie Volk [Undergraduate]
		Alumni
		Tyler Sondag (PhD Fall'11, MS Fall'09)
		Harish Narayanappa (MS Spring'10)
		Rakesh Setty (MS Fall'08)
		Mahantesh Hosamani (MS Fall'07)

Research and Educational Projects

• Programming Language Design for Improved Modularity

  • Panini: Reconciling Modularity and Concurrency in Program Design.
    • [Onward!'10], [GPCE'10], [FoSER'10], [OOPSLA'10 Poster], [OOPSLA'10 Poster]
  • Ptolemy: Quantified, typed events for improved separation of concerns.
    • [AOSD'12], [FOAL'12], [AOSD'11], [FOAL'10], [ECOOP'08], [TOSEM'09], [IEEE Software'06], [ESEC/FSE'05]
  • Nu: Intermediate language design for maintaining design modularity in the object code.
    • [FASE'11], [TOSEM'09], [AOSD'08], [VMIL'08], [VMIL'07], [FSE'06 (Poster)], [SPLAT'06]
  • Eos: Unified module system for improved separation of concerns.
    • [TOSEM'08], [PLOP'07], [ICSE'05], [AOSD'05], [ICSE'04-DS], [ESEC/FSE'03]

• Modularity in Program Verification

  • Tisa: A Language Design and Modular Verification Technique for Web Services.
    • [ESOP'09], [IEEE SOC'08], [NWeSP'07], [IW-SOSWE'07]
  • Slede and Golok: Modular Behavior Composition for Verification.
    • [ICFEM'10], [ESEC/FSE'09], [WiSec'08], [ICSE'09 (Demo)], [ESEC/FSE '07 - DS], [FSE'06 (Poster)]

• Program Optimization

  • Sapha: Phase-based Tuning.
    • [CGO'11], [RTSS'10], [IW-MSE'09], [PLOS'07]
  • Frances: A tool for understanding code generation.
    • [CCSC'11], [SIG-CSE'10], [CCSC'10 (Tutorial)]

Other Projects

• VMIL: Workshop on Virtual Machines and Intermediate Languages, usually colocated with OOPSLA.

Relevant Courses

• Com S 541: Programming Languages 1 (graduate course) ^{Fall 2012}
• Com S 610-HR: Advanced Topics in Program Analysis (Offered in Fall 2008)
• Com S 641: Semantic Models of Programming Languages (graduate course)
• Com S 342: Principles of Programming Languages (undergraduate course) ^{Fall 2012}
• Com S 362: Object-oriented Analysis and Design (undergraduate course)