Our leading research objective:
Help engineers understand how software-intensive systems will behave in reality

We are actively doing reserach in the areas Requirements Engineering, Software Engineering & Machine Learning, Explainable Intelligent Systems, Research Software Engineering, Data-driven Systems Engineering and Model-based Systems Engineering. Almost each area is leaded by one of our team members.

Adapt the SE process to the new challenges of ML & utilize ML to improve SE.

Researcher: All members of SSE

• Requirements Engineering for ML Applications (paper)

Automate RE as far as possible.
Researcher: Prof. Dr. Andreas Vogelsang

• Automatic Requirements Classification (paper)
• Automatic Trace Link Recovery (paper)
• Automatic Glossary Term Extraction (paper)
• Automatic Test Case Derivation from Natural Language Requirements (paper)
• Automatic Risk Prediction (paper)

Explain intelligent and autonomous behavior to users.

Researcher: Dr. Mersedeh Sadeghi

• Explainable System Requirement
• Explainable Modeling
• Software Engineering of Explainable systems
• Explainability and Ethics
• Development of (explainable) cyber-physical, IoT and autonomous systems in our SmartLab

Improve development of research software.
Researcher: Adrian Bajraktari
(this topic is new, therefore there are no publications yet. If you are interested or have an idea for work in this area, please contact us!)

• Code Quality and Principles
• Process and Team
• Validity and Reproducibility
• Credibility and Acknowledgement

Improve SE by collecting and analyzing runtime data.

Researcher: Patrick Ebel

• Integrate NL Requirements with System Executions (paper)
• Analyze Feature Usage based on Interaction Data (paper)

Improve MBSE adoption in practice.
Researcher: Dr. Tiago Amorim

• SPES Modeling Framework (paper)
• Feature Dependency Analysis (paper)
• Drivers and Hurdles of MBSE Adoption (paper)
• MBSE Adoption Strategies and Best Practices (paper)
• MBSE Maturity Model (paper)
• Decision Support for Process Maturity Improvement in MBSE (paper)