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New paper in Journal of Systems & Software 26 July 2022 The paper entitled "Scalability Testing Automation using Multivariate Characterization and Detection of Software Performance Antipatterns" by DSiS members Robert Heinrich, Martina Rapp, Jörg Henß and collaboration partners from eSulab Solutions, Ericsson AB, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and University of Hamburg has been published in the Journal of Systems & Software.
New PhD: Dr.-Ing. Sofia Ananieva 1 July 2022 Dr.-Ing. Sofia Ananieva successfully passed her defense with highest honors.
Most Influential Paper Award for Thomas Goldschmidt, Steffen Becker, and Erik Burger 30 June 2022 Thomas Goldschmidt, Steffen Becker, and Erik Burger received the Most Influential Paper Award for their 2012 paper "Towards a tool-oriented taxonomy of view-based modelling". The award was presented at the conference MODELLIERUNG 2022 of the German Informatics Society (GI). The paper can be accessed via the GI digital library: https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/18148
New PhD: Dr.-Ing. Stephan Seifermann 23 May 2022 Dr.-Ing. Stephan Seifermann successfully passed his defence on 23 May 2022. His dissertation on "Architectural Data Flow Analysis for Detecting Violations of Confidentiality Requirements" is available online: https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000148748
Bunte Nacht der Digitalisierung 2022 Freitag, 1. Juli 2022 ab 16:30 Uhr im Informatikgebäude 50.34 (Am Fasanengarten 5), Raum –101 (Gerhard-Goos-Hörsaal) Unter dem Thema "Software-Entwurf und Qualität" stellen sich die Forschungsgruppen für Zuverlässige Software-intensive Systeme und Modellierung für kontinuierliche Software-Entwicklung des KASTEL Instituts für Informationssicherheit und Verlässlichkeit vor. Wir laden Sie zu einem vielseitigen Programm ein, indem sich die Forschungsgruppen, ihre vielfältigen Forschungsgebiete sowie ihre Industriepartner vorstellen. Bei Getränken und Snacks wird hier allen Gästen ein direkter Einblick in die Forschung und Praxis der Software-Entwicklung geboten. Studierende können zusätzlich Kontakt zu Betreuerinnen und Betreuern zukünftiger Abschlussarbeiten knüpfen und ihr Interesse an der Erforschung und Verbesserung der Software-Entwicklung wecken lassen. Detailliertes Programm
Heiko Klare is awarded the "Baden-Württemberg Certificate" for university didactics (HDZ) 01 December 2021 DSiS employee Heiko Klare received the "Baden-Württemberg Certificate" for university didactics ("Baden-Württemberg-Zertifikat für Hochschuldidaktik"). It certifies the participation at workshops, supervisions, practical coaching and individual qualification measures with a total amount of 200 teaching units. Heiko Klare specialized in developing concepts for e-learning and e-assessments. In this year, the certificates have been awarded without a formal handover. The "Baden-Württemberg Certificate" is awarded by the center for educational development (Hochschuldidaktikzentrum - HDZ) as an association of the nine universities of Baden-Württemberg. Its goal is to further improve the didactic competences of teachers at these universities and to provide them with professional assistance during the two-year advanced training. After successful completion of three modules, the participants are awarded the "Baden-Württemberg Certificate" for university didactics. HDZ Website
New paper in Journal of Systems & Software 19 November 2021 The paper entitled "Detecting Violations of Access Control and Information Flow Policies in Data Flow Diagrams" by Stephan Seifermann, Robert Heinrich, Dominik Werle and Ralf Reussner has been published in the Journal of Systems & Software. The paper is about considering confidentiality in early software designs given as data flow diagrams. The presented approach allows designers to model and analyze systems using various commonly used confidentiality policies. The paper is an open access publication. Access Paper
New publication in Software and Systems Modeling 13 October 2021 New journal paper in Software and Systems Modeling by SDQ member Robert Heinrich and Moussa Amrani, Dominique Blouin, Arend Rensink, Hans Vangheluwe and Andreas Wortmann on Multi-paradigm modelling for cyber–physical systems. The paper "Multi-paradigm modelling for cyber–physical systems: a descriptive framework" by Moussa Amrani, Dominique Blouin, Robert Heinrich, Arend Rensink, Hans Vangheluwe and Andreas Wortmann has been published in Software and Systems Modeling volume 20 and will be presented as a journal-first paper at the ACM/IEEE 24th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS). Access paper
VKSI awards and honorable mentions for KASTEL members 10 August 2021 Two awards and two honorable mentions have been given to members of the Institute of Information Security and Dependability (KASTEL). The association of software engineers in Karlsruhe (Verein der Karlsruher Software-Ingenieure e.V./VKSI) award students for excellent bachelor’s and master’s theses every year. This year, Larissa Schmid (from the group Modelling for Continuous Software Engineering, Prof. Anne Koziolek) receives the VKSI award for an excellent thesis on foundations of software engineering. Her master’s thesis has the title "Modeling and Simulation of Message-Driven Self-Adaptive Systems". Sebastian Hahner (from the group Dependability of Software-intensive Systems, Prof. Ralf Reussner) receives the award for an excellent thesis in applied software engineering. His master’s thesis has the title "Domain-specific Language for Data-driven Design Time Analyses and Result Mappings for Logic Programs". Honorable mentions for their final theses go to Dominik Fuchß and David Monschein. VKSI homepage
New PhD: Dr.-Ing. Heiko Klare 19 May 2021 Dr.-Ing. Heiko Klare successfully passed his defence with highest honors. Photo by Dominik Werle His dissertation on "Building Transformation Networks for Consistent Evolution of Interrelated Models" is available online. KITopen
ICSA ’21 10-years Most Influential Paper Award will be presented to Anne Koziolek, Heiko Koziolek, and Ralf Reussner 7 April 2021 The 18th International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA'21) awarded the ICSA'21 10-years Most Influential Paper Award to the paper "PerOpteryx: automated application of tactics in multi-objective software architecture optimization" by Anne Koziolek, Heiko Koziolek, and Ralf Reussner. ICSA is the premier venue for practitioners and researchers interested in software architecture, in component-based software engineering and in quality aspects of software and how these relate to the design of software architectures. ICSA has a strong tradition as a working conference, where researchers meet practitioners and software architects can explain the problems they face in their day-to-day work and try to influence the future of the field. ICSA 2021 Homepage
Workshop on Properties of Software Engineering Research (PROPSER) 2021 First International Workshop on Properties of Software Engineering Research (PROPSER) Aim This workshop aims to bring together researchers at various points in their career and practitioner's alike, for discussing the systematic description and evaluation of software engineering research and their documentation. Motivation The workshop is motivated by two observations: writing and reviewing software engineering research results is often hindered by the lack of a community understanding what are important questions (hypotheses) to validate research and which methods are suitable, appropriate and needed for demonstrating evidence; retrieving research results just through syntactical terms of the paper title (or even abstract) is often very hard, and, as a consequence, comprehensively relating research results to each other in terms of support, strengthening or contradiction is rarely done. Therefore, in PROPSER we want to discuss in particular: – properties for describing software engineering research, such as relevance, evidence, applicability, appropriateness, etc; – general patterns for suitable empirical validations of research results and hypotheses; – suitable classifications of software engineering research, beyond established subject categories; – experiences, rules or guidelines, on how to decide on suitable validation questions and subsequently suitable empirical methods; – managing and organising research knowledge at a finer grain than paper citations; – methods for evaluating the impact of research on software engineering practice. Important Dates Paper submission: March 26, 2021 Author notifications: April 19, 2021 Workshop: June 23, 2021 Workshop Chairs Antonia Bertolino, ISTI-CNR, Italy Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany Ralf Reussner, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) / FZI – IT Research Centre, Germany (main contact) Workshop Homepage
Paper on Vitruvius in Journal of Systems & Software 19 October 2020 The paper entitled "Enabling consistency in view-based system development — The Vitruvius approach" has been published in Journal of Systems & Software.The paper is about a holistic system development approach using multiple languages and tools to describe a software or software-intensive technical system from different viewpoints. This so called Vitruvius approach enables stakeholders to only deal with views containing information about the system that is relevant for their specific concerns. It especially provides formalized methods and languages to preserve consistency between the artifacts described in the used languages in an automated or semi-automated way. The paper is available as open access. Access paper19 October 2020
New journal paper of SDQ member Robert Heinrich in Journal of Systems & Software 7 March 2020 The paper entitled "Architectural Runtime Models for Integrating Runtime Observations and Component-based Models" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Systems & Software. The paper is about using knowledge about software architecture to keep track of modern software applications while dynamically changing. This requires strong interaction of evolution activities on development level and adaptation activities on operation level. The paper is accessible as preprint here. Access Preprint
ICPE 10-years Most Influential Paper Award presented to Anne Koziolek (Martens), Heiko Koziolek, Steffen Becker and Ralf Reussner 23 April 2020 The paper "Automatically Improve Software Architecture Models for Performance, Reliability, and Costs Using Evolutionary Algorithms" by Anne Koziolek (Martens), Heiko Koziolek, Steffen Becker and Ralf Reussner has been awarded the ICPE 10-years Most Influential Paper Award. The conference International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE), the premier gathering of practitioners and researchers interested in performance engineering, awarded the paper "Automatically Improve Software Architecture Models for Performance, Reliability, and Costs Using Evolutionary Algorithms" by Anne Koziolek (Martens), Heiko Koziolek, Steffen Becker and Ralf Reussner the ICPE 10-years Most Influential Paper Award. Access paper
Palladio paper won the MIP Finalist award of Journal of Systems and Software 22 January 2020 The Journal of Systems and Software is one of the leading international jounals in Software and Systems Engineering according to the Google Scholar ranking. The paper "The Palladio Component Model for Model-driven Performance Prediction" has been awarded as one of the four finalist for the Journal of Systems and Software's "Most Influential Paper" award. Access paper
Interview with Ralf Reussner on heise online Ralf Reussner gave an interview with the news portal heise online on the training of programmers and computer science education (in German). Interview on heise online (German)