Welcome to Uwe Aßmann's Home Page

Forecast

• The construction of the "Smart Mobility Lab" in Schwarzkollm has been started as a research and test center for autonomous cyber-physical systems.
• On 2025-06-19, there will the the OUTPUT day of our faculty! Our cobotic lab with the robots Max and Moritz will be open for some hours.
  

Publications

[ publications on DBLP | publications on Google scholar | publications on SCOPUS | publications on ORCHID | publications in TU Dresden Research Information Portal (FIS-Pure) ]

Books

Research Areas

Since software engineering is a discipline between theory and practice, we try to balance basic research with technology research and application-driven research.

Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering (MORSE)

MORSE is the queen discipline of systems engineering, because constructing, modeling, and programming of robots is hard. Since 2006, the chair is involved in MORSE; first with MDSD for Lego Mindstorms robots in the SuReal project, then for NAO robots in the Qualitune project, then for TurtleBots in the VICCI project, then for KUKA LBR in the T-RoX project, and even more robots:.

• SNIFFBOT (sniffing dangerous gases by immersive robotics) (2019-2021) with immersion into dangerous environments
• "Software for Self-Adaptive Systems and Cobotics" (SESAC). The cours presents results from CeTI on cobotics, SNIFFbot (immersive robotics) and many other interesting research-oriented topics.
• CeTI-U2 project "Industrial uses cases of human-robot co-habitation" with Franka Panda cobots
  
• CeTI-T5 project "Tactile Computing with fog infrastructures for human-robotic co-habitation" with fogs
  
• MORSE 19 at MODELS 2019 | 5th MORSE workshop 2018 | 4th MORSE 2017 | 3rd Int. Workshop on Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering (MORSE) 2016 Workshop at RoboCup Leipzig. Published at the ACM Library
• WEIR: a new contribution the Kuka Innovation Award at Hanover Fair 2016. Here is the WEIR project site at ST.
  
• Hot Wire adaptive robot demo, with Telekom and IoSense project
  
• MWC Barcelona 2017: Mr T., the world's first immersive multi-robot:  Another film: T. Höttges interview (in the front), Mr T. in the background
• Remote Playing piano with Mr. T, the world's first immersive multi-robot
  
• IoSense youtube channel with Labcast on 3d mouse directing a UR-10 robot coworker
  

Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) and Snippet Composition for Models and Programs (Invasive Software Composition)

Software composition integrates the following areas of software engineering: aspect-oriented development, architecture languages, view-based development, and generic programming. The speciality of the Dresden group, Invasive Software Composition (ISC), is a technology for template and snippet composition (fragment composition). Plainly speaking, it is an advanced form of template metaprogramming (TMP), but it can do much more for you. Our group has worked on the following type-safe techniques for snippet composition and for constrution of program and model weavers:

• With Universal grammar-based ISC for textual languages, you can produce for a given grammar a snippet composition system. With this, you can enhance any language with template programming features like in BETA or C++ and build powerful snippet metaprogramming environments. Applications are [ Safe Template Languages ] and "Component Models for Semantic Web Languages". These works describe a general framework of grammar-universal ISC, i.e., how to take a grammar and generate from it a component model and snippet composition system for its language.
  
• Universal metamodel-based ISC for textual and graphical languages is the extended approach working with EMF metamodels [ Extending Grammars and Metamodels for Reuse - the Reuseware approach ] [ JOT Paper on Reuseware ]
  
• Orchestration style sheets (OSS) is our newest approach for styling the parallelization and distribution of sequential programs (progressive parallelization). Style sheets are a very general form of rewriting-based aspects, controlled by attribute grammars. [First Paper on OSS | Overview of Orchestration Path of cfAED | Semantics-aware composition for parallelization ]
  
• Attribute-driven ISC: With attribute-driven ISC, weavers can be built for Aspect-Orientation Development (AOSD) and Aspect-Oriented Modeling (AOM). Remote Attribute Grammars describe data- and control-flow between remote parts of the syntax tree of the program. The theory was worked out by Dr. Sven Karol in his PhD thesis "Well-Formed and Scalable Invasive Software Composition" [pdf]. The corresponding demonstrator tool is the SkAT composition tool.
• Reference-attribute grammar driven rewriting (RACR): if analysis phase of a reference attribute grammar are interchanged with rewriting, a novel method for context-sensitive term rewriting results. The RACR toolset is managed by Christoff Bürger, now in Lund, Sweden.
  

Agile Business Modeling in Smart Ecosystems (Lean Startup for Software and Innovation Ecosystems)

• Innovation Ecosystems: Coopetition, cluster and innovation research. Our Lean Innovation Center (LINC) made in the ECSEL-Project IoSense support distributed innovation management.Grab yourself a password from the homepage and start to collect ideas for your projects.
  
• Feature Modeling of Open Software Families. Christoph Seidl, now in IT University Copenhagen, did his PhD here.
  
• Course Software as a Business (SaaB) discusses how to create software innovations with working business models, also for product lines, product matrices, and software ecosystems. Lean startup only scales with Software Product Lines, Matrices and Ecosystems.
  
• Here is the material for the "Dungeon of Dragons" pitch day of Jan 28, 2019.
  
• "Dungeon of Dragons" (Höhle der Löwen) with 5 pitches for new company ideas on Wed, Jan 31, 16:30 in Hörsaal E023, Andreas-Pfitzmann-Bau.
• Course http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/swm (Software Project Management)

Agile Teaching

Agile teaching employs the methods of agine software engineering to teaching. Our group maintains the following feedback systems for students:

• INLOOP Java web platform for self-teaching of Java
• LINC Teaching platform
  

Self-Adaptive Systems and Their Architectures

Context- and Role-Based Modeling (Context-based Views)

During the last years, we have have learned that Model-Driven Software Engineering should be based on languages with contexts and roles (Context- and Role-based Modeling and Metamodeling). Roles capture context-sensitive object behavior in specific contexts. Role systems automatically adapt to context changes. Contexts and roles can be applied to objects, models, and metamodels (for language engineering). This is an exciting new area of MDSD!

• Fog architectures with the IoSense software framework
  
• The big book on SAS
  

Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSD) in Technical Spaces

MDSD is cool because it shows complex software in simple views (models).

Megamodels and Model-driven software development (MDSD) 

• Model synchronization, macromodels, and round-trip engineering This technology keeps a set of software views (models and codes) consistent, so that they are called a macromodel.
  
• Ontology-Driven Software Development (ODSD): ODSD couples ontologies to software models, to be able to use advanced reasoning technologies in requirements engineering or design. Dr. Katja Siegemund has worked on the employment of ontologies in requirements specification [pdf]. The MOST project produced a Springer book on ODSD.
  
• Course Model-Driven Software Development in Technical Spaces (MOST) summarizing the most modern literature in the research area. It discusses macromodels, megamodels, technical spaces and other ways to develop REAL software.

Software Product Lines

Software Product Line Engineering (SPLE) maintains a configuration model in the problem space together with a system in the solution space (component space).

• Feature Modeling
• Language Families based on Feature Models and Role-based component models. This was the PhD of Christian Wende who modeled language families with feature models.
  
• Hyper-feature models. Christoph Seidl developed them in his PhD.
• Views on Feature Models. Julia Schroeter worked them out for multi-tenant cloud-based software.
  

Requirements, Testing, and Documentation

• Ontologies in requirements specification (Katja Siegemund's PhD)
  
• OCL and business rules: the chair has an OCL compiler, the Dresden OCL Toolkit
  
• Test automation for cyber-physical systems and robots (MATE System, Georg Püschel)
  
• Documentation engineering (elucidative development), PhD thesis of Dr. Andreas Bartho
• Quality requirement specification for components and their quality-based optimization with Multi-Quality Auto-Tuning (MQuAT) of Dr. Sebastian Götz
  

Program Analysis and Transformation Techniques

• Graph rewriting, in particular Edge Addition Rewrite Systems (EARS) and Exhaustive GRS (XGRS) 
• Port-Graph Rewriting (Johannes Mey)
  
• Reference-attribute grammar driven rewriting (RACR): if analysis phase of a reference attribute grammar are interchanged with rewriting, a novel method for context-sensitive term rewriting results. The RACR toolset is managed by Christoff Bürger, now in Lund, Sweden
• Relational RAGs: Bidirectional Edges in Reference-attribute grammars (Johannes Mey): SLE paper
  

Development Environments Tool and Generator Technologies

• Context-based Petri Nets (Carl Mai, Dr Marvin Triebel)
• Macromodels are sets of models in heterogeneous IDE that are kept consistent and are amenable for round-trip engineering (Christopher Werner)
• QMARK is a development environment for development of energy-efficient apps (Claas Wilke)
  

Other Results

Research Talks

[ Overview of all Talks | Keynotes | Invited Talks | Technical Talks ]

• March 2022: New keynote on SNIFFBOT at ESOCC 22
• Dec. 2021:  Prof. Aßmann's time as dean of Faculty has ended. Congratulations to the new dean Prof. Ivo Sbalzarini!
• Sept. 2020: new paper on "Immersives verteiltes Robotic Co-working" in Informatik Spektrum, a demo produced for the celebration of 50 years of Computer Science Education in Germany.
• Jan 30, 2019: I gave a keynote at SOFSEM about cross-layer adaptation in multi-layer autonomic systems, a MAPE-K  autonomic pattern. The slides are here. The volume is found at Springer LNCS 11376.
• Nov 14, 2019: I gave a keynote at Berlin Requirements Engineering Symposium, organized by Prof. Roland Jochem of TU Berlin, Lehrstuhl für Qualitätswissenschaft. BRES was located in the Hotel de Rome near Humboldt Universität main building in Französische Strasse in Berlin, in the former entrance hall of the Dresdner Bank. Nice location - it seems like Berlin has risen again.
  
• Sept.30 - Oct 2, 2019 ICC Dresden: demo of distributed robotic cell at 5G World Forum Dresden
• March 7, 2019: IoSense Spring School at TU Delft
• Sept. 16, 2019: I gave a tutorial talk on "Roles-Oriented, Context-Aware Software Infrastructures (ROSI)" at the Summer School "Development, Deployment, and Runtime of Context-Aware Software Systems" in Dagstuhl
• Jan 30, 2019: I gave a keynote at SOFSEM about cross-layer adaptation in multi-layer autonomic systems, a MAPE-K  autonomic pattern. The paper is found inx Springer LNCS 11376.
• Sept. 24, 2018: Talk at Symposium Dresden IEEE 5G Summit (chair Prof. Fettweis)
• Apr 4, 2017: Invited talk at the MODULARITY symposium (PROGRAMMING conference in Brussels)
• Feb 19, 2017: Keynote at MODELSWARD conference
• July 25, 2016: Keynote at ICSOFT 2016 Conference in Lisboa
  
• Sept. 29, 2016: Talk at Symposium Dresden IEEE 5G Summit (chair Prof. Fettweis)
• Feb 24, 2015: Keynote "Working with Robots in Smart Homes and Smart Factories – Robotic Co-Working" at "Software Engineering (SE)" in Vienna
  
• Feb 04, 2015: Keynote "Robotic Co-Working in Industry 4.0" at SoftED conference in Dresden
  
• Nov 24, 2015: New project IoSense with coordinator Infineon Dresden
  
• Sept. 24-25, 2015: Symposium Dresden 5G Lab for the tactile internet (chair Prof. Fettweis)

Startups of Alumni of the Chair

Several  of my PhD students have founded startups, often with my mentoring under BMBF Exist or Sachsen TGFS grants:

• smarobix.com, producing a FPGA coprocessor board for mobile robotics
  
• open-physio.de, a multi-sided platform for physiotherapy services (2021-today)
  
• Mainteny - a startup for maintenance of elevators (2020-today), got 2.3M€ venture capital in 2023
  
• AppAxy, a startup for several video platforms (2020-today)
  
• Wandelbots, Dresden (2017-today) (facebook |  twitter | Opening of their new facilities in Tiergartenstrasse | Winner of Startup Challenge Fabrik of the Year  | Overseas Talent Entrepreneurship Conference(OTEC) in Beijing, China )
• Jan. 2022: The startup Wandelbots - spun off from our chair - raises $84m venture capital in Series C.
• July 2020: The startup Wandelbots - spun off from our chair - raises $30m venture capital.
• Dec 2018: Startup Wandelbots wins another 6M$ venture capital for wearable-controlled serivce robots for factory automation, with 5 founders from my chair (C. Piechnick, M. Piechnick, G. Püschel, S. Werner, J. Falkenberg). Other alumni who went there: Ronny Kaiser, Peter Heisig, Christoph Biering, Carl Mai.
• DevBoost, Dresden (2012-today) ( Twitter | )
• MentalMotive, Berlin (2010-today)
  
• Ubigrate (2009-2012)

Hall of Fame

• Feb 2018: Carl Mai, René Schöne, Johannes Mey, Thomas Kühn, Uwe Aßmann:  Adaptive Petri Nets – A Petri Net Extension for Reconfigurable Structures
  
• Dec 2017: Best Demo Award for Ronny Seiger at MUM Conference, with pictures from the demo
• June 9, 2016: Dr. Christoph Seidl won the SAP prize "Best industrial relevant PhD" of the Computer Science Department
• April 2016: WEIR: a new contribution to the KUKA Innovation Award at Hannover Fair (April 25-29), an application of  Fog Computing
• Class Wilke. Energy-Aware Development and Labeling for Mobile Applications. PhD thesis, March 2014. [ bib | pdf on qucosa ] Winner of the SAP price for best industrially oriented PhD thesis 2014

Ongoing Research Projects

• DFG GRK AirMetro "Autonomous Airbound Mobility in Urban Regions"
  
• DFG SFB/TRR 339 "Digital Twins of the Road of the Future (STRASSE)"
• DFG SFB 1618 CONVIDE (as a satellite of KIT)
  
• DFG Excellence Cluster Center for Tactile Internet (CeTI), Projects U2 (Industrial use cases, leader), TP5 (fog architectures) 
• BMBF 6G-life project on robotic applications with 6G (shopping assistant, care assistant)
• Self-reproducing modular robots (SAMBots) in Boysen Research Training Group "Mobility in Transition", Cluster B (Wanqi Zhao)
• The 5G Lab Germany is a cluster of chairs targeting "tactile applications" (chair Prof. Fettweis). We take part in the application track.
• BMBF project VIPFLUID for the predictive maintenance of dirt-water pumps
  

Past Projects

• Sachsen TG70 project ARAILIS
• Project SNIFFBOT (sniffing dangerous gases by immersive robotics) | SNIFFBOT project home page  |  Film on the SNIFFBOT project 
• DFG Research Training Centre (Graduate School) "Role-Based Software Infrastructures (RoSI)". This school researches into context-adaptive software, languages, and run-time systems. (Thomas Kühn (2013-2016), Max Leuthäuser (2014-2016), Mariam Zia (2014-2017), Christopher Werner (2016-2019))
• BMBF Project ILMA works on macromodels for specific application areas.
• Fraunhofer and TU Dresden found the Center for Explainable and Efficient AI (CEE-AI), here is a paper.
• BMBF SysPlace (KMU-initiativ): product lines with augmented reality (Maria Piechnick)
  
• BMBF project "OpenLicht" with consortium leader Infineon (René Schöne)
• DFG RISCOS project combining Invasive Software Composition with Strategic Port-Graph Rewriting (2017-2020)
  
• DFG Collaborative Research Centre (Sonderforschungsbereich) 912 "Highly-Adaptive Energy-Efficient Computing (HAEC)" with its subproject "Energy-Adaptive Software Architectures (ENASA)" B01 (2013-2020)
  
• Johannes Mey, Rene Schöne, Dr. Somayeh Malakuti, Dr. Max Leuthäuser, Dr. Sebastian Götz
  
• SAB InnoTeam project CyPhyMan a project to create a cyber-physical production system (CPPS), with company N+P Informationssysteme, Meraane (Georg Püschel, Ronny Seiger, Romina Kühn, Mandy Korzetz, Diana Lemme, Kevin Kassin)
• SAB GUIDES transfer project (2016-2017): ILP-based optimization for production planning, with Dualis (Dr. Karsten Wendt)
• DFG Excellence cluster "Centre for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfAED)" with the subprojects
• Orchestration Path for orchestration of many-core processors (Johannes Mey. Sven Karol - until summer 2014).
  
• Silicon-Nanowire Path for new gate technologies on Silicon Nanowires synthesized from Dynamic Petri Nets (Carl Mai)
• Resilience Path of cfAED: For compensation of hardware errors in software (2013-2014: Christian Piechnick)
• T-RoX project (Teaching Robots in SaXony), a Saxonian project improving the teaching material for robotics
• WEIR: a new contribution to the KUKA Innovation Award at Hannover Fair (April 25-29, 2016), an application of  Fog Computing
• The Resubic Lab Dresden comprises several researcher groups on software for the "internet of things". Prof. Aßmann has been elected as its speaker. 
• Labcasts in the ResUbic Lab
  
• ZESSY (Zukünftiger Entwurf eingebetteter Systeme) with its subproject QualiTune (Claas Wilke, Jan Reimann, Christian Piechnik, Christian Wende, Sebastian Götz). The other part of ZESSY (EnergyDesign) was completed at the chair of Prof. Kabitzsch
  
• VICCI (integration of cyber-physical systems, Prof. Gumhold, Jun.-Prof. Schlegel, Prof. Dachselt)

Postdocs and Alumni in Academics and Industry

Postdoc	Project	Web
Dr. Birgit Demuth	Teaching systems; OCL
Dr. Sebastian Götz	Self-adaptive software architectures
Dr. Karsten Wendt	Digital Health, Fog computing
Dr. Marvin Triebel	Modeling cobots with hybrid petri nets
Dr. Ronny Seiger	University of St. Gallen	github
Dr. Thomas Kühn	University of Halle-Wittenberg	RoSI
Prof. Dr. Sven Karol	Hochschule Merseburg	web
Prof. Dr. Christoph Seidl	IT University Copenhagen	web
Dr. Steffen Zschaler	Kings College London, Senior Reader
Christoff Bürger	Dassaut Systems, Lund	github
Dr. Somayeh Malakuti	ABB Ladenburg	ResearchGate

Founders of Companies

Who	Company	When
Christian Piechnick	wandelbots	2017
Maria Piechnick	wandelbots	2017
Jan Falkenberg	wandelbots	2017
Sebastian Werner	wandelbots	2017
Dr. Georg Püschel	wandelbots	2017
Christoph Biering	wandelbots	2017, after Master's thesis
Dr, Mirko Seifert	devboost	2012
Dr. Christian Wende	devboost	2012

PhD Students

Current

PhD	Project	Web
Mikhail Belov	Immersive robotics, ADL for robotics	SNIFFBOT
Andreas Domanowski	Innovative Programming-Feedback Systems	AG Feedbacksysteme, Convide
Markus Hamann	Model Assessment System MARS	AG Feedbacksysteme
Sebastian Ebert	Model-Driven Virtual Prototyping of Robotic Applications with Hybrid Petri Nets	CeTI
Oliver Geisel	Model-driven automated disassembly with Reference Attribute Grammars
Tianxiang Zhang	Formal Models for Drone Logistics
Volodymyr Prokopets	Foundation of Simulation Product Families	Digital Twin Road
Christian Gutsche	Hybrid System Modeling in Julia
Zizhe Wang	Green IT and mobility, Variable Structure Systems in equational models
Wanqi Zhao	Robots for Software-Defined Mobile Supply Chains	Boysen-Graduiertenkolleg
	Moved to Wandelbots in 2018
Carl Mai	Petri-net based code synthesis for Silicon Nanowire structures	cfAED Silicon-Nanowire Path
Maria Piechnick	Software architectures for Wearable Computing in the Internet of Things	SysPlace project, Co-founder Wandelbots
Christian Piechnick	Role-based model-driven architectural languages for self-adaptive systems	SMAGS  site, Co-founder Wandelbots
Ronny Kaiser	Collaboration platforms for Lean Innovation	Wandelbots
Sebastian Werner	Fog frameworks for Cobots	Co-founder Wandelbots
	In Industry
Kay Bierzynski	Role-based learning for the Internet of Things	Industry PhD student
Romina Kühn	Mixed-reality apps
Mandy Korzetz	Mixed-reality interaction patterns
Frank Rohde	A Dynamic Software Product Line for Pseudonym Systems in Fog Computing	ILMA, RoSI
Johannes Mey	Heterogeneous code generation techniques with orchestration style sheets. Extends Reference Attribute grammars for Models-at-runtime and the use in HAEC	[ paper ]
Christoff Bürger	Remote Attribute Grammar Controlled Rewriting (RACR)	RACR github

PhD Alumni

List of PhD alumni

PhD	Topic	Scholar	web	bib	pdf	Traces in the web
Dr. René Schöne	Modular Specification of Self-Adaptive Systems with Models at Runtime using Relational Reference Attribute Grammars	scholar			pdf
Dr. Dominik Grzelak	Model-oriented Programming with Bigraphical Reactive Systems - Theory and Implementation	scholar	Bigraphs.org		pdf	Postdoc CeTI
Dr. Dmytro Puhkhaiev	A Software Product Line for Parameter Tuning	scholar			pdf	Postdoc
Dr. Christopher Werner	Role-based model synchronization	scholar			pdf	Wandelbots
Dr. Ronny Seiger	Self-managed Workflows for Cyber-physical Systems with Scalable Consistency. November 2018. How to run a workflow system on cyber-physical environments such as Smart Rooms.	scholar	github		pdf	Ronny works now at University of St. Gallen
Dr. Georg Püschel	Testing Self-Adaptive Systems - A Model-based Approach to Resilience. Juni 2018. The ultimate robot-testing method.	scholar	github		pdf	Co-founder of Wandelbots
Dr. Max Leuthäuser	A Pure Embedding of Roles - Exploring 4-dimensional Dispatch for Roles in Structured Contexts. August 2017. Context and Roles in Scala in the library SCROLL. SCROLL will be the basis of the cross-layer architecture of HAEC.	scholar			pdf	RoSI SCROLL HAEC
Dr. Thomas Kühn	A Family of Role-Based Languages. Develops a role-based modeling language for context-aware applications.	scholar			pdf	Projects
Dr. Jan Polowinski	Ontology-Driven, Guided Visualisation Supporting Explicit and Composable Mappings. This PhD thesis developes a technique for visualizing for ontological data. It uses the VISO visualization ontology to define a mapping between the ontological data and a visualization specification.	scholar	Web		pdf	VISO Twitter Homepage Startup OpenPhysio
Dr. Christoph Seidl	Integrated Management of Variability in Space and Time in Software Families. Winner of the SAP price for best industrially oriented PhD thesis 2016. [ bib  ]	scholar			pdf	home page at TU Braunschweig
Dr. Jan Reimann	Generic Quality-Aware Refactoring and Co-Refactoring in Heterogeneous Model Environments, July 2015	scholar		bib	pdf	Fraunhofer IWU, Chemnitz, Linked-in page
Dr. Sven Karol	Well-Formed and Scalable Invasive Software Composition PhD thesis. May 2015	scholar		bib	pdf	Linked-In github
Dr. Katja Siegemund	Contributions To Ontology-Driven Requirements Engineering. PhD thesis, May 2014.			bib	pdf	XING home page
Dr. Andreas Bartho	Elucidative Modeling. PhD thesis, May 2014. [ contents of Phd thesis, published with Vogt Verlag ]			bib	pdf	DEFT tool page  Linked-In-Homepage
Dr. Julia Schroeter	Feature-based Configuration Management for Reconfigurable Cloud Applications. PhD thesis, April 2014.			bib	pdf	Home page with PUMA tool suite
Dr. Claas Wilke	Energy-Aware Development and Labeling for Mobile Applications. PhD thesis, March 2014. [ Winner of the SAP price for best industrially oriented PhD thesis 2013 ]	scholar	web	bib	pdf
Dr. Birgit Grammel	Automatic Generation of Trace Links in Model-driven Software Development. PhD thesis, February 2014.			bib	pdf	Linked-In home page
Dr. Sebastian Götz	Multi-Quality Auto-Tuning by Contract Negotiation. PhD thesis, July 2013.	scholar	web	bib	pdf
Dr. Christian Wende	Language Family Engineering. PhD thesis, March 2012.	scholar		bib	pdf	DevBoost
Dr. Sebastian Richly	Autonom rekonfigurierbare Workflows. PhD thesis, December 2011. One of Sebastian's lifetime achievements is the creation and management of the JExam student life-cycle management system of the Fakultät Informatik			bib	pdf
Dr. Konrad Voigt	Structural Graph-based Metamodel Matching. PhD thesis, November 2011.			bib	pdf
Dr. Falk Hartmann	Safe Template Processing of XML Documents. PhD thesis, Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Informatik, July 2011. [ Falk was co-founder of Ubigrate and the Java User Group Saxony who celebrated 10 years jubilee in 2018.]			bib	pdf	Falk coorganizes Java User Group Saxony Linked-In home page Ubigrate (-2012)
Dr. Mirko Seifert	Designing Round-Trip Systems by Model Partitioning and Change Propagation. PhD thesis, Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Informatik, June 2011.  Mirko is co-founder of DevBoost.			bib	pdf	DevBoost
Dr. Jendrik Johannes	Component-Based Model-Driven Software Development. PhD thesis, Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Informatik, December 2010.			bib	pdf	Reuseware tool page Jendriks homepage
Dr. Ilie Savga	A Refactoring-Based Approach to Support Binary Backward-Compatible Framework Upgrades. PhD thesis, April 2010.			bib	pdf	Ilie has a second education as doctor for osteopathy Linked-In home page
Dr. Simone Röttger	Systematische Prozessunterstützung für die Entwicklung laufzeitkritischer Softwaresysteme - PROKRIS-Methodik und -Framework. PhD thesis,  2009.			bib	pdf	XING Profile
Dr. Henrik Lochmann	HybridMDSD: Multi-Domain Engineering with Model-Driven Software Development using Ontological Foundations. PhD thesis,  2009.			bib	pdf	now CEO of MentalMotive
Dr. Jakob Henriksson	A Lightweight Framework for Universal Fragment Composition. PhD thesis, 2008			bib	pdf	Linked-In home page
Lic. Robert Kaminski	Towards a Framework for XML Refactoring, February 2006. Licentiate Thesis at Linköpings Universitet.			bib		Linked-In home page
Lic. Marcus Comstedt	Towards a Link-Time Weaving of Binary Components, December 2003. Licentiate Thesis at Linköpings Universitet.			bib		Home page at Lysator
Lic. Thomas Panas	Towards a Unified Reengineering Process, November 2003. Licentiate Thesis at Växjö Universitet.			bib		Linked-In home page
Lic. Jens Gustavsson	Towards Updating Runtime Components, June 2003. Licentiate Thesis at Linköpings Universitet.			bib		Linked-In home page

 

Technology Demonstrators

Labcasts (Videos) on Youtube and Other Portals

• SNIFFBOT saves Santa Claus (film)
• Labcast Living Room Cleanup Robots (D. Grzelak)
  
• Labcast on Cleaning Cobotics (CeTI) (S. Ebert, J. Mey, with Prof. Gumhold's group)
  
• Film of PHD training group RoSI (2013-2022)
  
• The Faculty of Computer Science has got a nice film, come to Dresden!
• Jun 19-20, 2019: 50 anniversary of Computer Science Education in Germany and in Dresden,
  
• Video page on youtube.  historical info page
• This demo on a distributed robotic workflow was made with several partners in jubilee towns and shows our competence in CeTI subproject U2
• IoSense youtube channel
  
• Labcast on 3d mouse directing a UR-10 robot coworker
• Labcast on Lean Innovation Center
• Sept 2017: Hot Wire adaptive robot demo, with Telekom and IoSense project
  
• Feb. 2017, MWC Barcelona: Mr T., the world's first immersive multi-robot:  Another film: T. Höttges interview (in the front), Mr T. in the background
• Remotely playing piano  by Mr. T (Sebastian Werner, Wandelbots)
  
• Cinderella Co-Working cell demo (Dissertation Georg Püschel)
  
• Marketing film about Wandelbots of Saxonian marketing initiative "so geht sächsisch"
  
• Wandelbots at TechCrunch Berlin Dec 2017VW robotic co-working demo von Wandelbots
  
• Dresden Radio interview
  
• Interview by Heiko Weckbrodt
  
• Interview C. Piechnick

Technology Demonstrator Websites

• CROM (Context-role object modeling language), a modern, context-oriented modeling language (T. Kühn)
  
• SMAGS (Smart application grids), an adaptive architectural language based on roles; with a self-adaptive meta-architecture (C. Piechnick)
  
• Reneviz visualization framework (J. Mey)
• VISO visualization ontology blog (J. Polowinski)
  
• RACR term-graph rewriting tool (C. Bürger)
• SkAT composition tool (S. Karol, J. Mey)
• JastEMF.org reference attribute grammars for EMF (S. Karol, now at chair of compiler construction; Christoff Bürger, Lund University)
• Dresden OCL Toolkit (Dr. B. Demuth)
  
• PUMA tool suite for multi-tenant cloud applications (Dr. J. Schroeter)
  
• RTT tool for regression testing (C. Bürger)
  
• Reuseware The grammar- and metamodel-controlled universal composition environment for invasive software composition (fragment composition). Several subprojects are available:
  
• XcerptWare: role-based composition of Xcerpt queries
• UMLWare: fragment composition of UML class and activity diagrams
• MDPE performance engineering workbench
• OWLizer, a tool to transform an EMF model to OWL, to use the ontology as backend reasoner (R. Schöne)

Open Source Software and Fremium Software

• JouleUnit testing framework (Dr. C. Wilke). For this framework, we offer energy-testing services to companies.
• EMFText, the versatile syntax mapper to EMF models, readily usable for new domain-specific languages, now supported by company
• JaMOPP: A Java parser and pretty-printer to Ecore, for extending Java with DSL, refactoring, or other applications
  
• LanGems, a role-based language composition laboratory (C. Wende)
  
• DEFT, the development environment for tutorials in elucidative programming and modeling (A. Bartho)
  
• OSPP, the open service process plattform (Sebastian Richly), won the international IEEE service computing contest in 2008. OSPP is a platform for adaptive (semi-ad-hoc) workflows on the web. It offers a base level workflow with many variants, and a meta-level, which can switch base level workflow variants. Several techniques for switching can be used. 
  
• Habich, D.; Richly, S.; Ruempel, A.; Buecke, W.; Preissler, S. Open Service Process Platform 2.0. Congress on Services - Part I, 2008. SERVICES '08. IEEE, 6-11 July 2008 Page(s):152 - 159
  http://iscc.servicescomputing.org/2008/Results.htm 
• The feature mapper, a bridge between feature trees and UML artefacts (F. Heidenreich). Now commercialized at DevBoost
• Refactoring toolbox RECODER (A. Ludwig et. al., since 1998, still maintained in Karlsruhe)

Guests of Our Chair

• March 2020-Sept 2021: The Corona pandemia stopped all travelling.
  
• Oct 27, 2017. Edgar Jakumeit, Karlsruhe, maintainer of the GrGen tool, the fastest graph rewriting tool.
  
• Workshop "Mission-Critical Software Infrastructures" on Jan 21, 2016, with inauguration lecture of Prof. Furrer
• Workshop on Attribute Grammars (with Prof. Tony Sloane)
  
• Nov 25, 2015: Talk Prof. James Cordy (School of Computing, Queen's University at Kingston, Canada)
• “A Program Understanding Theory of Software Complexity”

Conferences and Workshop Committees

PhD Committee Membership (Opponent)

• Feb 16, 2023: Marcus Kessel, Mannheim
  
• Oct 18, 2019: Erik Österlund defense in Växjö, Linné Universitet
• Sept 25: Linköping, Ulf Kargén defense, I gave a talk as opponent

PC Membership

I have been member of the following commitees of scientific conferences: 

• 2016-2023: Reviewing for DFG as main reviewer in Fachkollegium 402/Informatik
  
• 2020:  ICSOFT 20 | SLE 20
  
• 2017: Smart Systems Hub: Spring and Autumn Call for Visitor Trails of the Smart Systems Hub (Trail Chair)
• Apr 3, 2017 LASSY Workshop at PROGRAMMING
• 2016: Software Engineering (SE) (Vienna) | MOMO 16 | MODELS 16 | MORSE 16 | ICSOFT 16
  
• 2015: Software Engineering (SE) 2015, Dresden | Startup Track SE |  EnerStore 2014 | CASCON 2015 | VAO 15
  
• 2014: EnvironInfo 14 | MORSE 14 | ISOLA 14 | SE 14
  
• 2013: CASCON 13
  
• 2012: EEBS 12
  
• 2011: SWESE 11 | SLE 11 | TOOLS 11
  
• 2010: AOSD 10 | ECOOP 10 | ECMFA 10 | TOOLS 10 | SLE 10
  
• 2009: TOOLS 09 | AOSD 2009
• 2008: ECMDA-FA 08 | MECS 08 | MODELS 08 | TOOLS 08 | ISWC 08 | CBSE 08 
  
• 2007: AOSD 2007 ECOOP 2007
• 2006: SET 2006 | SC 06 |SE 06, |ECMDA-FA 06 | CBSE 06
• 2005: LCSD 2005 |VORTE 05 | ECMDA-FA 05 | SCOPES 05   | CBSE-8 05
• 2004:  GPCE 2004 | SCOPES2004| CD 2004 | CSBE7-2004  | ECOOP04
• 2003 and older:  AOSD 2003 | SCOPES 2003 | CC 2003 | CD 2002 | CC 2002 | CC 2001

Founding Member of Workshops and Conferences

• Apr + Sept. 2017: Spring and Autumn Call for Visitor Trails of the Smart Systems Hub (Trail Chair)
  
• Int. Workshop on Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering (MORSE) (2014-today) Workshop filling the gap between Software Engineering and Robotics. [ 2014: CEUR | 2015: ACM Library | 2016: ACM Library | 2017: STAF }
  
• ECMFA (2005), formerly ECMDA-FA, conference at STAF
• Int. Symposium on Software Composition (1999 - 2013)
  

Steering Committees

I am or have been member of the following Steering Committees:

• Dresden Exists incubation agency (Beirat)
• Silicon Saxony (scientific councellor for software, since 2012); before for Software Saxony (2006 - 2009)
• Int. Symposium on Software Composition (1999 - 2013), last editions in
• 2013 Budapest part of STAF 2013
  
• 2012 Prague part of TOOLS 2012
• 2007 Praga
• 2006 Vienna
  
• ECMFA (2005), formerly ECMDA-FA, conference at STAF
  

I am member of the IFIP Working Group 2.4 "System Implementation Techniques". This international group meets regularly to exchange new research results.

Organisation of Industry Days and Seminars

• On Dec 14, 2019, we organized the first "Software Engineering Day Dresden", (Program) with Alumni and visitors. It was a remarkable event with lots of news from industry out there.
  
• New video of OUTPUT-DD 2022, the faculty's open day
  
• July 8, 2021: The OUTPUT day of department was organized in online mode, and it worked nevertheless! (3 live stream casts of all sessions).
• 50 Years Anniversary of Computer Science Education in Germany
  
• Spring School IoSense project April 11, 2018, Dresden
  
• Dec 11-16, 2016: 58th Meeting of IFIP Working Group 2.4 in Dresden, Dorint Hotel
• Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering (MORSE) 2016 Workshop at RoboCup Leipzig 
• Software Engineering (SE) and Software Management (SWM) 2015, March 17-20, 2015, Dresden, including the 1st Saxonian Software Summit
  
• Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering (MORSE) 2014 Workshop successfully run at STAF
  
• Java User Group Saxony Conference on April 4, 2014
  
• SLE/GPCE/FOSD, Sept 2012
  
• Innovation forum Software Saxony (May 2012)
  
• Innovation forum Software Saxony on April 23, 2010 together with OUTPUT demo day of the department
• Reasoning Web 2010 in Dresden (Aug 30 - Sep 03)
• REWERSE summer school Reasoning on the web in Dresden, Sept 3-7, 2007
• REWERSE summer school Reasoning on the web in Malta, July 25-29, 2005
• March 9, 2004, London: Talk at the British Computer Society on "Invasive Software Composition".
• Seminar "Software from Components" with The DIA Academy (www.dia-bonn.de). (2001-2003)

Reviewing

I have been reviewer of the following projects or clusters:

• DFG Fachkollegiat Softwaretechnik (since 2016)
  
• DFG reviewer for "Normalverfahren" and "Sonderforschungsbereich"
  
• ERC reviewer for "Advanced Grants"
• EU 6th framework: Integrated project SPEEDS
• EU 7th framework: Integrated project COMPASS
• ELITE excellence cluster, Sweden
• Embedded Systems Week, EU
• German-Israel-Foundation (GIF)
• Swedish Vetenskapsradet
• Swedish KK-Stiftelsen
  

Industrial Consultancy

Consulting projects fascinating me usually require a mix of some of these topics:

• Sept 17, 2015: "Energiespeichertag" of GWT and network CSSI with talk on "Energy-Efficient Apps"
  
• June 2014, Sept. 2015: User conference of AIS Automation Systems Dresden
  
• Growth problems of software companies: organizational, business models, growth models
  
• Software Engineering: requirements, risk management, specification, architecture, design, object-orientation, aspect orientation
• Component technology and composition technology
• Framework technology (whitebox, blackbox, layered frameworks)
• Design patterns
• Software architecture: distributed systems (fog computing), frameworks and architectures
• XML, OWL, Semantic Web
• Compilers: How to build compilers, compiler tools 
• Program analysis and optimization

Teaching

My group organizes the following courses:

Bachelor Level

• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/swt (Software Technology)
• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/swt2 (Software Technology II)
• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/ps (Proseminar)
• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/swm (Software Project Management)

Master Level

On the master level, our courses are research-oriented, i.e., students are expected to read research papers independently.

Winter semester

• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/dpf (Design Pattern und Frameworks)
• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/cbse (Component-Based Software Engineering)
• Model-Driven Software Development in Technical Spaces (MOST) discusses macromodels, megamodels, technical spaces and other ways to develop REAL, heterogeneous software...
• New course "Software for Self-Adaptive Systems and Cobotics" (SESAC). It  will include results from CeTI on cobotics, SNIFFbot (immersive robotics) and many other interesting research-oriented topics.
• Software as a Business (SaaB) discusses how to create software innovations with working business models
• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/sip (Ringvorlesung "Softwareentwicklung in der industriellen Praxis)

Sommer semester

• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/swm (Software Project Management)
• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/asics (Academic Skills for Computer Scientists)
• Future-Proof Software Systems (FPSS) on software architecture of  large systems

Others

• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/lss  (Lehrstuhlseminar "Modellierung und Architektur von Softwaresystemen" für Diplomanden, GB- und Bachelorstudenten)
• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/kp (Komplexpraktikum)
• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/hs (Hauptseminar)
• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/sew (Software-Entwicklungswerkzeuge, until 2013)
• "Software for Future Robots (SEFOR)" (Lecture Series in SoSe 2025)
• http://st.inf.tu-dresden.de/teaching/vba (Vorbereitung der Bachelorarbeit)

For the rest, please consult the teaching page of the ST group.

Miscellaneous

Nice People in Computer Science

• Doug McIlroy, one of the most visionary researchers in IT
• The publication list of the most productive man in Computer Science, guess who here
• Thomas Reps, the best in program analysis

Humor (Funny Incidents in Computer Science)

• Prof. Heinz Zemanek is a source of great citations (follow the comments to the page under this link)
  
• A film about the Mailüfterl 
• Zuse's Z3 on youtube
  

Visit my Partners and Collaborators in Computer Science

• PELAB Prof. Peter Fritzson, Universitet Linköping
• Prof. Christoph Kessler, PELAB Linköping
• The REWERSE Network, hosted in Munich at Prof. Francois Bry
• Dr. Steffen Zschaler, King's College London
  
• Prof. Friedrich Steimann, Uni Hagen, researcher in role modeling
• Prof. James Cordy, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
  
• IFIP Working Group 2.4 System Implementation Techniques
• Institut für Programmstrukturen und Datenorganisation, Prof. Dr. Goos  University of Karlsruhe, Postfach 6980, AVG, Geb. 50.41, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany (Official University page)
• Didier Parigot INRIA Sophia Antipolis
• My school in Gladenbach, Germany

Success Stories

Transfer Cases of Projects

• Wandelbots is a Startup founded in Nov 2017. It got venture capital and is growing fast. It has taken over about 8 persons from my group (!).
  
• EuroTrackX project (SAB), a technology transfer project with the companies Dresden Informatik, TTE Europe and iSAX (2013-2014). TTE Europe sells now a tracking system for dynamites, configurable for European countries
  
• Open4Innovation, an ESF research transfer network, 2010-2013. This network co-started the Working Group "Cyber-Physical Systems" of Silicon Saxony and launched the global OpenInnovation platform WatchOurIdeas
  
• BMBF FeasiPLe (Feature modeling in Product Lines) Feature modeling in product lines (2005-2008).This project developed the open-source tool Featuremapper, which was integrated as a component into PureVision's Feature tool
• DevBoost is a startup founded in 2012 for Test and Requirments Engineering. They have popularized EMFText, the EMF open-source environment for domain-specific languages, created many projects and contacts all over the world, also the startup DevBoost
  
• B2PDE with ComArch, financed by Sächsische Aufbaubank (SAB) (2005-2007). This project was one of the initial projects of ComArch after starting in Germany. It initiated two PhDs, of Ilie Savga on Adapter generation and of Andreas Bartho on elucidative modeling.
  
• The compiler component framework CoSy (home page at ACE), in the EU project COMPARE (1990-95). In this project, several languages, such as fSDL and EDL, the languages of the CoSy framework, were developed as prototypes and marketed by ACE. One offspring of this project in Saarbrücken was the company AbsInt. One offspring of this project was the Company HEI in Mannheim.
  

Archive

Completed Projects

I have contributed to the development of the following other systems and research projects.

Other National Projects

• ESF PhD stipend for "SemViz - Semantic Vizualization" (Jan Polowinski)
  
• ESF PhD stipend for "Rewrite Systems for Trees with Overlaid Graphs" (Christoph Bürger). This resulted in the RACR context-sensitive term rewriting technology
  
• ESF research transfer network Open4Innovation, 2010-2013. This network startet the Arbeitskreis Cyber-physikalische Systeme (CPS) in Silicon Saxony, quite an active working group. It also supported the predecessor of the "Java User Group Saxony", the Innovation forum Software Saxony
  
• ZESSY (Zukünftiger Entwurf Eingebetteter Systeme) and its subgroup Qualitune, 2010-2013. This project started to work on NAO walking robots of Aldebaran, quite some inspiration
  
• DFG Hyperadapt, applying aspect orientation to multimedia systems, 2009-2011
  
• BMBF CoolSoftware, developing a dynamic, energy-efficient software architecture, 2009-2011, a project within the cluster CoolSilicon
  
• Open4Business, a BMWi project in the line "Wissenschaft trifft Wirtschaft". A technology transfer project for Saxonian small and medium enterprises, 2009-2010
• BMBF SuReal (Secure Real-Time Systems), research on real-time modeling with UML, real-time statecharts, real-time aspects (2005-2008). This project was the first project of the chair that worked with robots - Lego Mindstorms robots (films at the review of 2008).
  
• Semantic Web for Production (SWEBPROD), a Swedish project (Vinnova)
• Semantic Descriptions of XML in the XWizard project (a CENIIT project of Linköping University) 
• The Swedish project RISE (SSF)
• Second Generation Application Provisioning (2GAP) (Vinnova) 

European Projects

• ECSEL project IoSense, 2016-2019 |  IoSense youtube channel
• EU 7th Framework project MOST (Marrying Ontologies and Software Engineering), 2008-2011
• EU 6^th Framework project MODELPLEX (Model-driven development of complex systems)
• EU 6th Framework Network of Excellence REWERSE www.rewerse.net
• EU 4th Framework FET project EASYCOMP 
• EU 5th Framework project High Integrity Object-Oriented Real-Time Systems (HIDOORS) www.hidoors.org
• EU 4th Framework project JOSES (Java and CoSy for Embedded Systems)
• EU 5th Framework project AJACS (Applying Java to Automotive Systems), www.ajacs.org 

Earlier Development Environments and Tools, Out of Maintenance

• 1998-2003: COMPOST, the software composition system (COMPOST main page).  COMPOST is a library of static meta-programs for the composition of Java fragments.
• 1992-2003: OPTIMIX, the graph rewrite tool for C and Java
  
• 2001-2002: SWEDE, the ontology development environment
• 2006-2008: Safer Web, the community for a children-safe web
• 1990-1993: A parallelizer for Modula-2, PRISMA.  This parallelizer contained a heap analysis according to Chase/Wegman/Zadeck 1990, and successfully parallelized loops over lists in Modula-2

Organization

I have been co-organizing several scientific workshops and/or conferences:

• Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering (MORSE) 2016 Workshop at RoboCup Leipzig 
• 2015 Software Engineering (SE) 2015, Dresden 
  
• Startup Track SE 2015
  
• National IT summit in Dresden (Dec 7, 2010)
• Reasoning Web 2010
  
• IDDR 08 hosted in Dresden
• MECS 08 Dagstuhl "Model engineering of complex systems"
  
• ECOOP 2007 in Berlin
• MDAFA 04 in Linköping
• SC 04 in Edinburgh, ETAPS
• Software Composition (SC) 2003 at ETAPS, Barcelona
• Software Composition (SC) 2002, Warsawa
• Dagstuhl Seminaire 00451, Nov 6-10, 2000, Protocol Page Version 1.0
• JOSES Workshop at ETAPS 2001

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