In 2024, the R@ISE team submitted three projects to the Arcadia Study Abroad programme. This programme allows students to participate actively in the research environment. Over the course of the summer, students will participate as active members of a research group, develop research goals, and build an experimental strategy to achieve these goals
The three R@ISE projects are outlined below:
Project 1: Low-Code No-Code Software Development
| Supervisor | Prof. Tiziana Margaria |
| Research Field | Computer Science |
| Background Information | Low-Code No-Code (LC/NC) development platforms can revolutionise the delivery of custom-made applications from website and app building to workflow automation for many businesses. LC is a way for software developers with limited coding or technical skills to design, build and provide building blocks for domain-specific applications quickly and with minimum hand-coding. NC is a way to help those who may not know how to programme, but want to develop an application for their specific use case, to do so using those pre-existing building blocks. This project will involve the creation of “building blocks” using existing code which will contribute to the development of a LC/NC platform for use by industry, government, and wider society. |
| Student Profile | Computer Science, Programming Languages (Java, Python etc.), Object Oriented Programming |
Project 2: Data Analysis of Historical Records
| Supervisor | Prof. Tiziana Margaria |
| Research Field | Computer Science, Data Science |
| Background Information | This project will involve the development and testing of software applications that can be used to analyse and extract information from historical records. Students will build on technologies already developed for the analysis of historical mortality records and will work together with the supervisor and research team to enhance the techniques and apply them to other types of historical records. While rooted in Computer Science and Data Science, the project is interdisciplinary exposing students to a number of different fields and faculties. |
| Student Profile | Computer Science, Data Science |
Project 3: Low-Code No-Code Software Development Education
| Supervisors | Prof. Tiziana Margaria, Mr Sean O’ Brien |
| Research Field | Computer Science, Education |
| Background Information | The R@ISE (Research at Immersive Software Engineering) Project will develop the next-generation platform for Low-Code No-Code (LC/NC) software development. LC/NC democratises software development by empowering individuals, groups, and organisations without expert knowledge in the software development or programming to create applications that suit their needs. Education and training will represent a key component of the LC/NC platform to ensure that all stakeholders can reap the benefits of the LC/NC approach in their own contexts. This project will primarily involve research into the needs of key stakeholders and their current levels of familiarity with software development to create tailored training curricula. Students will work with the supervisory team, R@ISE researchers, partner organisations, and other stakeholder groups to identify knowledge gaps and construct engaging and accessible education and training resources and curricula to enable stakeholders to engage effectively with the LC/NC platform that is being developed by the R@ISE project. |
| Student Profile | Computer Science, Education, Data Analysis |
