Welcome

Welcome to the NSF Net-Centric Software & Systems Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (Net-Centric IUCRC) home page.

Our Center focuses on a collaborative approach of research and development in net-centric systems. This allows us to draw on the expertise of industry and academia.

Net-Centric operations offer a computing model for the future. In this paradigm, we no longer view applications as having a fixed set of capabilities: we see them as a set of highly reliable services that are dynamically created from acquired services, then verified and validated in the field in real-time.

Why Join Us

Proven model optimized for collaboration between industry, government and academia
Access to pre-competitive and basic research
Leveraged "force multiplier" to accelerate generation of new ideas for product innovation
Opportunities to network and partner with technology leaders and innovators
A single point source for company and staff education on emerging technologies
An expert source for company staff education and training in emerging technologies
A targeted, low-risk, and cost-effective complement to selected in-house R&D
Both royalty free non-exclusive and royalty bearing exclusive licensing available
Access to trained workforce
Opportunity to direct University research
Opportunity to establish high-quality, long-term relationships with researchers

How to join

A business can join the Center as an Industrial Member and sign a membership agreement with any of the Academic Institutions. Each Industrial Member is entitled to a representative on the Industrial Advisory Board that decides which projects will be funded from the pooled annual dues. Industrial Members have non-exclusive royalty-free access to research conducted by the center. Other licensing agreements are also available.

For further information about the Center or memberships, please contact Dr. Krishna Kavi, director of the Net-Centric Software & Systems Center at kavi@cse.unt.edu or (940) 369-7216.

Mission, Vision and Research Focus

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Google Apps Engine Research Awards Go to two Net-Centric Universities

updated: Mar 19, 2013 at 20:00 (2 months ago)

On 2013-02-13, Google announced seven Google App Engine Research awards for innovative projects. These first-ever awards were given to two Net-Centric member universities, The University of Texas at Dallas and Arizona State University for building a cloud Software Benchmark and Simulation Forecaster and a Cloud Computing-Based Visualization tool to Access Global Climate Data Sets, respectively. Other innovative projects included research topics from: the California Institute of Technology, the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, MIT, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington.

The winning principal investigators, for UTD and ASU, in this first competition are: Lawrence Chung (UTD) and Enrique Vivoni (ASU). Lawrence Chung’s research project is designed to build forecasting tools that can give businesses estimates on the performance and costs for running their applications on the Google App Engine so they can decide if it will meet their business needs. Enrique Vivoni uses Google App Engine for analyzing global climate data within the Google Maps API. The objective is to provide scientific data on global climate trends by allowing map-based queries and summaries, according to the post.

The complete announcement can be found in an eWeek posting by Todd R. Weiss. http://www.eweek.com/cloud/google-apps-engine-research-awards-go-to-7-innovative-projects/