Sara Dersten, Doctoral student


Sara Dersten is an industrial Ph.D. student at Mälardalen University, Sweden. In 2006 she graduated
as M.Sc. in Computer Science from Mälardalen University. After graduation, she got employed by
the Swedish patent office and in 2008 by Volvo Construction Equipment. In 2009 Sara started her
Ph.D. studies in refactoring of systems architecture and defended her licentiate in 2012. She is now
working in the E/E Systems architecture department at Volvo CE and is involved in the SARPA project.
SARPA aims to investigate and demonstrate the design of a highly flexible platform for vehicle
automation that can be used in both on road and off road products and in a number of different
applications with different environmental constraints. Therefore an electronics architecture that
is flexible and scalable must be defined so it can provide a possibility to meet the needs each new
mission requires. Still the system must remain safe and robust.

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Latest publications:

Analysis of the Information Needs of an Autonomous Hauler in a Quarry Site (Jul 2016)
Sara Dersten, Peter Wallin, Joakim Fröberg , Jakob Axelsson
IEEE 11th International Conference on System of Systems Engineering Conference (SoSE2016)

Dealing with uncertainty in early architectural decisions (Mar 2016)
Sara Dersten, Joakim Fröberg
4th International Commercial Vehicle Technology Symposium (CVT2016)

An Analysis of a Layered System Architecture for Autonomous Construction Vehicles (Apr 2015)
Sara Dersten, Joakim Fröberg , Jakob Axelsson
9 th Annual IEEE international System conference (SysCon2015)

Finding critical architectural decisisons for autonomous vehicle product-lines (Aug 2014)
Sara Dersten
The 40th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2014)

Defining a Method for Identifying Architectural Candidates as Part of Engineering a System Architecture (Apr 2014)
Joakim Fröberg , Stig Larsson , Sara Dersten, PerÅke Nordlander
8th Annual IEEE International Systems conference (SysCon2014)

Towards a guideline for refactoring of embedded systems (May 2012)
Sara Dersten

MSc theses supervised (or examined):
Thesis TitleStatus
App enabling environment to Volvo CE platforms finished