About Large Scale Complex IT Systems

This EPSRC funded initiative is responsible for coordinating a national network of researchers with the skills and knowledge appropriate to dealing with the problems of current and future LSCITS across their life-cycles.  The initiative also has international links with researchers in both industry and academia.

The motivation for the LSCITS intitiative is the on-going growth in the size and complexity of information technology (IT) systems. Our ability to develop, maintain and manage such systems is falling behind the growth in their complexity. There is a high risk that we will find ourselves reliant on IT systems that we don't fully understand and that we cannot effectively manage.

The roots of complexity in IT systems are their increasing size; the increasing involvement of many different organisations in their construction and use; and the increasing rate of business and social change that they have to accommodate. To management control complexity, we need better technical tools and methods of system development. We also need a better understanding of the human, social and organisational issues that affect the procurement, development, deployment and use of complex IT systems.

Engineering Doctorate EngD

The Initiative's Training Programme is intended to produce the next generation of systems engineers and technology innovation leaders. The Training Programme started in April 2009 and the last student is expected to graduate in 2015.

Final LSCITS SYMPOSIUM being held on 12th June at the Cedar Court Hotel, York

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