The new director, Prof. Zhou Chaochen, took up the office on 1 August, 1997. We have also given 50 postgraduate courses in developing countries. In the meantime, we have also built up our own capacities. At present, we have 6 academic staff and 8 administrative staff. We have concentrated on the design stage of software systems, such as domain modelling, requirements capture, system architecture, etc. for many years.
Implementation usually consumes huge resources.
We will provide our expertise as consultant, and cooperate with software industry and other institutions in designing and implementing practical projects. No software technique is universally applicable. We will choose complementary techniques for our projects, if and when appropriate, while we keep pursuing our research and development in formal methods. In most developing countries, the software industry has not been satisfactorily developed, although it may have had rapid progress in recent years. We will continue our support for University of Macau in establishing and developing its software engineering programme, and will expand our involvement in the local projects to provide information services for Macau.