Software Engineering for the Connected Automobiles: Opportunities and Challenges

Summary form only given. This talk will high-lighten the diverse research opportunities and challenges arising from the software engineering on the connected automobile. The undergoing convergence of automotive and information technology makes automobile fundamentally change. Now, the automobile is not only a vehicle of transportation, but also a vehicle of information, communication, and services. Under the hood of an automobile, more than 50 computers and more than 50 sensors are working together through in-vehicle networks for making the automobile safer, greener and smarter. The software in an automobile is highly-complicated safety-critical, real-time distributed. The size of the software well exceeds ten million lines of code, and is rapidly evolving. Now autonomous, or driverless, automobile is a big challenge in automotive software engineering, and many areas in software engineering. Through communication networks, the automotive software can send the big data on the driver behavior, location, traffic, and weather to cloud computing for mobile crowd sensing. It is considered as an IoT (Internet of Things). Now, automotive software engineering is an exciting research subject for a wide area of research and development in software engineering.