The development of software technologies to support the high-level construction of complex applications has been a long-term research interest of Professor Darlington and the Centre, tracing its origins back to pioneering work in functional programming and program transformation. The London e-Science Centre developed the ICENI component-based application development and execution framework. ICENI was a pioneering SOA and was used and tested in several major e-Science Pilot Projects including, Reality Grid, e-Protein and GENIE, http://www.lesc.imperial.ac.uk/projects/ , http://www.lesc.imperial.ac.uk/iceni/
The Centre is also a partner in the EU Network of Excellence, CoreGrid, which is investigating Grid and Internet software technologies
