Hans Hansson, Professor

E-mail:
hans.hansson@mdh.se
Room:
U1-063
Phone:
+46 21 103163
Divisions:
Division of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Division of Networked and Embedded Systems
Research groups:
Dependable Software Engineering
Real-Time Systems Design
Systems-of-systems
Web:
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Hans Hansson is professor in Real-Time Systems at Mälardalen University since 1997, where he is director of Mälardalen Real-Time Research Centre (MRTC) and leader of the strategic profile area Trusted Smart Systems (TSS). He received an MSc (Engineering Physics), a Licentiate degree (Computer Systems), a BA (Business Administration), and a Doctor of Technology degree (Computer Systems) from Uppsala University (UU), Sweden, in 1981, 1984, 1984 and 1992, respectively. Prof. Hansson’s previous appointments include being director of the nat’l research programme ARTES, visiting prof. and dept. chair at the Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, visiting Professor at Univarsitat de les Illes Balears, Spain, and researcher and scientific advisor at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) in Stockholm and scientific leader at RISE in Västerås.

Prof. Hansson has been advisor of some 20 graduated PhDs, out of which 5 are or have been university professors. He has as main applicant received more than 500 MSEK in external funding, including several larger national and European grants. 

Research in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Software Engineering. Focus on distributed embedded systems with contributions in data communication, real-time systems, system development, and modelling & analysis. Specific (selected) contributions related to Component-based design of safety-critical real-time embedded systems, Modelling and analysis of real-time communication, Real-time testing and debugging, Development of automotive control software, Formal modelling of timing and probability, Functional Safety and Cybersecurity of industrial and vehicular systems.

Author/co-author 250+ peer-reviewed scientific publications; cited 7800 times, with h-index 39 and i-10 index 87 according to Google Scholar October 2024

Ten selected publications:

1.     A logic for reasoning about time and reliability. H Hansson, B Jonsson. Formal aspects of computing, 1994, 6 (5).

2.     Analysing real-time communications: controller area network (CAN). KW Tindell, H Hansson, AJ Wellings. Proc. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 1994.

3.     Improved response-time analysis calculations. M Sjodin, H Hansson. Proc. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 1998.

4.     Integrating reliability and timing analysis of CAN-based systems. HA Hansson, T Nolte, C Norstrom, S Punnekkat. IEEE transactions on Industrial Electronics 49 (6), 1240-1250, 2002.

5.     Worst-case execution-time analysis for embedded real-time systems. J Engblom, A Ermedahl, M Sjödin, J Gustafsson, H Hansson. International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, 4 (4), 2003.

6.     SaveCCM - a component model for safety-critical real-time systems. H Hansson, M Åkerholm, I Crnkovic, M Törngren. Proc. Euromicro Conference, 2004.

7.     A Method to Generate Reusable Safety Case Fragments from Compositional Safety Analysis. Irfan Sljivo, Barbara Gallina, Jan Carlson, Hans Hansson, Stefano Puri. Journal of Systems and Software: Special Issue on Software Reuse (SR-JSS 2017).

8.     Inadequate risk analysis might jeopardize the functional safety of modern systems. Kaj Hänninen, Hans Hansson, Henrik Thane and Mehrdad Saadatmand. arXiv:1808.10308, August 2018.

9.     Cybersecurity Challenges in Large Industrial IoT Systems. Björn Leander, Aida Causevic and Hans Hansson. The 24th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2019), September 2019.

10.   Access Control for Smart Manufacturing Systems. Björn Leander, Aida Causevic, Hans Hansson, Tomas Lindström
2nd Workshop on Systems, Architectures, and Solutions for Industry 4.0 (SASI4), September 2020.

Project TitleStatus
AORTA: Advanced Offloading for Real-Time Applications active
ARRAY - Automation Region Research Academy active
ARROWS - Design Techniques for Adaptive Embedded Systems finished
ARTIST finished
CIRCLE LAB - innovative learning approach for circular chemistry in secondary education finished
Civilingenjör 4.0 Module C11 "Cyber Security, Industrial Data Protection and Data Integrity" active
Closing the safety-security gap in software intensive systems finished
CoDig - Continuous Digitalization active
COMING finished
DAIS - Distributed Artificial Intelligent Systems active
EAST/EEA finished
Efficient Safety in Complex Autonomous Production Environments - Concept Development active
ELECTRA - Evaluation of different communication technologies for heavy duty vehicle platooning finished
ESCAPE - Efficient and effective functional safety for complex autonomous production systems finished
FIA - Strategic research into safety and security for the automation industry finished
FlexiHealth: flexible softwarized networks for digital healthcare finished
FORA - Fog Computing for Robotics and Industrial Automation finished
Future factories in the Cloud finished
FutureE finished
GENIUS on-hold
Hi5 - A Holistic and Improved Infrastructure for Increased Industrial Impact of research finished
IndTech Industrial Technology Graduate School active
InterAct@MRTC finished
ITS-EASY Post Graduate School for Embedded Software and Systems finished
KIT - Competence needs and courses for professionals in IT and competitive production finished
MESSI - Methods for innovation development in software intensive systems finished
PG-Demo-SAVE – The SAVE demonstrator finished
Process Industrial Big Data Analytics finished
PROGRESS finished
PROMPT - Professional Master’s in Software Engineering (step II) finished
PROMPT - Professional Master’s in Software Engineering (step II, phase B&C) finished
PROMPT - Professional Master’s program in Software Engineering (step I) finished
RATAD - Reliability and Timing Analysis of Distributed systems finished
RELIANT Industrial graduate school: Reliable, Safe and Secure Intelligent Autonomous Systems active
RetNet - The European Industrial Doctorate Programme on Future Real-Time Networks finished
SaDIES. Safe Dynamic Software Instrumentation for Embedded Systems finished
SafeCer - Safety Certification of Software-Intensive Systems with Reusable Components finished
SafeCOP - Safe Cooperating Cyber-Physical Systems using Wireless Communication finished
SAVE finished
SAVE++ finished
SAVE-IT finished
SUCCESS: Safety assurance of Cooperating Construction Equipment in Semi-automated Sites finished
SYNOPSIS - Safety Analysis for Predictable Software Intensive Systems finished
TATOO - Test and Testability of Distributed Real-Time Systems finished
TESTit - Testing techniques for real-time systems finished
TIMERS - Timing analysis, modeling and evaluation of RTS finished
Warping - Wait and lock free synchronisation mechanisms finished