Principles of Programming Research Group

We welcome interest from Postdoctoral Researchers and prospective PhD students who wish to collaborate with us on research funding proposals. Funded applications will be advertised via Maynooth University Vacancies

The Maynooth University publication list for Rosemary Monahan is available at: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/computer-science/our-people/rosemary-monahan#3 . The Maynooth University publication list for James Power is available at: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/computer-science/our-people/james-power#3 .

Current Projects

• MAIVV:Modular AI Verification and Visualisation (2021-2025), researching scalable techniques for software development that guarantee software dependability, even when deep learning techniques are employed by developers. We focus on a methodology to verify properties of hybrid systems with mixed discrete and continuous dynamics, and associated software tooling to integrate this with existing verification frameworks. Led by Dr Rosemary Monahan in collaboration with Professor Barak A. Pearlmutter .
• VERIFAI: Traceability and Verification of natural-language requirements providing support for the automatic generation of the formal specifications, and the traceability of the requirements from the initial software design stage through the systems implementation and verification.
• VALU3S (2020-2023) , designs and implements process workflows and tools for improving the time and cost needed in verification and validation of automated systems. Funded by Enterprise Ireland and H2020 ESCEL, MU is collaborating with United Technology Research Center (UTRC) to improve workflows and tools for verification and validation of an aircraft engine controller.
• A Constructive Framework for Software Specification and Refinement (2019-2023), builds on our mathematical foundation for model-driven software engineering, and provides a well-developed formal infrastructure to ensure the usability and the integrity of the approach.
• A Multi-dimensional Model of Interpreted Language Power Consumption (2020-2022), examines interpreted language performance and focus on the integration and synthesis of models from a high level code perspective, through to their intermediate representations, the virtual machines that provide platform independence, and across the juncture between these virtual machines and the processor core.

Alumni: POP graduates

1. Marie Farrell, Event-B in the Institutional Framework: Defining a Semantics, Modularisation Constructs and Interoperability for a Specification Language, PhD. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Maynooth University, October 2017.
2. Andrew Healy, Predicting SMT solver performance for software verification, MSc. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Maynooth University, October 2016.
3. Keith Ó Dúlaigh, A Model Driven Approach for Refactoring Heterogeneous Software Artefacts, MSc. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Maynooth University, February 2016.
4. Zheng Cheng, Formal Verification of Relational Model Transformations using an Intermediate Verification Language, PhD. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Maynooth University, September 2015.
5. Jagadeeswaran Thangaraj, Adding Ownership Constraints to OCL to automatically generate Spec# skeletons, MSc. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Maynooth University, August 2015.
6. Hao Wu, Automated Metamodel Instance Generation Satisfying Quantitative Constraints, PhD. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, October, 2013.
7. Jacqueline A. McQuillan, Using Model Driven Engineering to Reliably Automate the Measurement of Object-Oriented Software, PhD. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, March, 2011.
8. Mark Hennessy, A test-driven development strategy for the construction of grammar-based software, PhD. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, October, 2006.
9. Áine Mitchell, An Empirical Study of Run-Time Coupling and Cohesion Software Metrics, PhD. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, October, 2005.
10. Gareth Carter, Support tools for Object Oriented Software, MSc. Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth, July 2005.