ARRAY - Automation Region Research Academy

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==> A total of 14 ARRAY PhD students are enrolled. Welcome! <==

• 2018-12-20 -- 1 PhD student from Bombardier Transportation joins the ARRAY team
• 2018-12-07 -- 2 PhD students from MITC joins the ARRAY team
• 2018-12-05 -- 2 PhD students from Skanska joins the ARRAY team
• 2018-10-11 -- 1 PhD student from RISE joins the ARRAY team
• 2018-10-01 -- 1 PhD student from Kanthal joins the ARRAY team
• 2018-09-14 -- 1 PhD student from Alten joins the ARRAY team
• 2018-09-06 -- 3 PhD students from ABB CT joins the ARRAY team
• 2018-06-21 -- 1 PhD student from Volvo CE joins the ARRAY team
• 2018-06-04 -- 1 PhD student from First Control joins the ARRAY team
• 2018-04-04 -- 1 PhD student from ABB Robotics joins the ARRAY team

Automation Region Research Academy (ARRAY) is an industrial postgraduate school that builds on Mälardalen University’s (MDU’s) experiences from three generations of KKS funded postgraduate schools (SAVE-IT, ITS-EASY, and ITS-ESS-H), while at the same time including several novel elements. In addition to novel research addressing important challenges related to automation, the key novelty from an MDU perspective is that ARRAY brings together top researchers from all three MDU Engineering research specializations (ES, FEC, and IPR). From the non-academic perspective, ARRAY brings together a broad spectrum of industrial players focusing on Automation, including several Swedish engineering companies, related public initiatives such as Automation Region and Robotdalen, the Research Institute RISE SICS Västerås, MITC and the Engineering research at MDU. By this, ARRAY provides a solid platform for multi-partner synergy and value creation of substantial benefit for the partners as well as for Sweden.

With basis in co-creation between MDU and the industrial partners* ABB AB, Alten AB, Bombardier Transportation AB, First Control Systems AB, Kanthal AB, Skanska AB, Volvo CE, ARRAY will educate 14 PhD students in areas of strategic importance. ARRAY will provide a comprehensive set of post-graduate courses, and promote cross-fertilization among students and the partners by networking activities. Supervision teams will be composed of both academic and industrial supervisors and mentors, which together with coordination of the five research tracks, are means to ensure co-creation and synergies. The five research tracks, Embedded systems design, Control and optimization, Safety and security, Test and verification, and Applications of automation, are carefully chosen to match industrial strategic priorities and challenges of the ARRAY industrial partners, as well as the existing excellence on the academic side.

Expected impact of ARRAY include, in addition to the expertise in strategic areas provided by the 14 doctoral candidates being educated: (i) increased competence and expertise in scientific areas of strategic relevance to the Swedish engineering industry, (ii) the establishment of Automation as a joint theme of excellence of the entire engineering research at MDU, and (iii) strengthening of the regional and national eco-system of Automation research, innovation, and development. In conclusion, ARRAY will be key in the long-term competitiveness of Swedish industry and academia.

* more partners are welclome to join the initiative.

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State of Test Optimization for Variability in Industry (Apr 2025)
Muhammad Abbas, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Eduard Paul Enoiu, Bernd-Holger Schlingloff
22nd International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG 2025)

ReqRAG: Enhancing Software Release Management through Retrieval-Augmented LLMs: An Industrial Study (Apr 2025)
Md Saleh Ibtasham , Sarmad Bashir, Muhammad Abbas, Zulqarnain Haider, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Antonio Cicchetti
Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2025)

3. Requirements Similarity and Retrieval (Jan 2025)
Muhammad Abbas, Sarmad Bashir, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Eduard Paul Enoiu, Daniel Sundmark
Handbook on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (HNLPRE)

Evaluation of an OPC UA-based Access Control Enforcement Architecture (Sep 2024)
Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Tomas Lindström , Hans Hansson
28th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2023)

Towards Model-Based Adoption for Requirements Elicitation in Railway - the Role of Collaborative and Participatory Modelling (Sep 2024)
Henrik Gustavsson, Johan Cederbladh
Collaborative & Participatory modelling workshop (CoPaMO 2024)

OPC UA PubSub and Industrial Controller Redundancy (Sep 2024)
Bjarne Johansson, Olof Holmgren , Martin Dahl , Håkan Forsberg, Thomas Nolte, Alessandro Papadopoulos
IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation 2024 (ETFA 2024)