Industry Voices on Software Engineering Challenges in Cyber-Physical Production Systems Engineering

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Several colleagues from Austria, Germany, Sweden, and I investigated the challenges on Software Engineering for Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS). The results can be found in our paper "Industry Voices on Software Engineering Challenges in Cyber-Physical Production Systems Engineering" on this year's ETFA conference.

In our study, we identified eight major fields of challenges for software engineering in CPPS:

Complexity
Multidisciplinarity
Variability
Agility
Real-Time Requirements
Education
Knowledge Management
Data Analytics & AI

Nominated for the Ernst-Denert-Award 2019

Mon, 21 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0200

My dissertation was nominated for the Ernst-Denert Award for Software Engineering 2019. It is a bit late to talk about it, but I still want to present to you my experience with this exciting event. We had a great day with interesting talks of really great quality. But let me take you on a journey through the day, and the day before.

RCoSE 2020 accepted @ ICSE 2020

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0100

I am very happy to have the 6th Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering (RCoSE) accepted @ ICSE 2020 in Seoul, South Korea

MMSM and EMLS 2020 accepted @ Modellierung 2020 and @ SE 2020

Thu, 10 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0200

I am organizing further workshops, which both happen to be held in Austria:

MMSM 2020 @ Modellierung 2020
EMLS 2020 @ Software Engineering 2020

SPP 1593 Book of Results released

Thu, 09 May 2019 00:00:00 +0200

The book of results of the DFG SPP 1593 is now released. The book is targeted at researchers and advanced professionals. It first describes the nature of software evolution, an overview of the specific challenges and an introduction to the case studies used in the SPP. Then it describes in multiple chapters the results of the SPP in different areas. I specifically participated in the chapters for Continuous Design Decision Support and Maintaining Security in Software Evolution.

Feel free to read the book. It has been published open access!

WSRE'19 in Bad Honnef, Germany

Thu, 09 May 2019 00:00:00 +0200

I just came back from the 21st Workshop on Software Reengineering (WSRE) and 10th Workshop Design for Future (DFF) in Bad Honnef, Germany. The workshops were packed with interesting talks. While the DFF is usually more focused on academic talks, the WSRE has a nice balance of industry and academia, and always is a very friendly and productive environment.

I had the chance to present the results and context of a student project, that I held together with Jens Holschbach at the winter term 2019/2020 at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Also, I was gratefully elected vice speaker of the group Software-Reenginering in the German Society for Informatics (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI))

Moving to Koblenz

Fri, 15 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0100

After finishing my PhD at the University of Duisburg-Essen, since March 2019 I am now working with Prof. Jan Jürjens at the Research Group Software Engineering for Critical Systems, University of Koblenz-Landau in Koblenz, Germany.

Campus of the University of Koblenz-Landau. Photo: Hans-Georg Merkel

Paluno Summit

Fri, 10 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0200

On 28 June 2018 I had a short talk and a poster at the Second paluno Software Technology Summit at the Zeche Zollverein in Essen, Germany.

I successfully defended my PhD thesis

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0200

I am happy to announce that I defended my doctoral thesis for the doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) with highest honors on 23 March 2018. In my dissertation "Explicitly Integrated Architecture - An Approach for Integrating Software Architecture Model Information with Program Code" I investigate the relationship between software architecture models and program code.