This Open Access book presents the results of the "Collaborative Embedded Systems" (CrESt) project, aimed at adapting and complementing the methodology underlying modeling techniques developed to cope with the challenges of the dynamic structures of collaborative embedded systems (CESs) based on the SPES development methodology.
In order to manage the high complexity of the individual systems and the dynamically formed interaction structures at runtime, advanced and powerful development methods are required that extend the current state of the art in the development of embedded systems and cyber-physical systems. The methodological contributions of the project support the effective and efficient development of CESs in dynamic and uncertain contexts, with special emphasis on the reliability and variability of individual systems and the creation of networks of such systems at runtime.
The project was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and the case studies are therefore selected from areas that are highly relevant for Germany s economy (automotive, industrial production, power generation, and robotics). It also supports the digitalization of complex and transformable industrial plants in the context of the German government's "Industry 4.0" initiative, and the project results provide a solid foundation for implementing the German government's high-tech strategy "Innovations for Germany" in the coming years.
Biografie (Wolfgang Böhm)
Wolfgang Böhm begann seine journalistische Laufbahn beim Nachrichtenmagazin "profil", war dann lange Jahre außenpolitischer Redakteur der "Presse", später Chef vom Dienst und leitet derzeit die dortige Europaseite.
Biografie (Manfred Broy)
Dr. rer. nat. Manfred Broy studierte Mathematik und Informatik 1971-76 an der Technischen Universität München. Dort 1976-80 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Sonderforschungsbereich 49 'Programmiertechnik' der DFG. 1980 Promotion, ab 1980 wisschenschaftlicher Assistent und 1982 Habilitation in Informatik an der TU München. 1983 ordentlicher Professor für Informatik und Gründungsdekan an der Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik der Universität Passau. Seit 1989 ordentlicher Professor für Informatik an der TU München. 1994 Leibniz-Preis der DFG.
Biografie (Klaus Pohl (geb. 1952))
Dr. Klaus Pohl is full professor for software systems engineering and director of the Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems at the University of Essen, Germany. He holds a degree in computer science (FH Karlsruhe, Germany) and a degree in information systems (Univ. Konstanz, Germany). Klaus Pohl received his PhD and his habilitation in Computer Science from the Technical University of Aachen, Germany. His current research interest include software product lines, requirements management and scenario-based test case derivation.§Current research projects include the European ITEA initiative in software product lines (the CAFÉ project) and various industrial uptake projects with leading Germany companies. Klaus Pohl is (co-)author of over 90 referred publications in the area of requirements and software engineering. He as published a book on Process-Centred Requirments Engineering (RSP/Wiley) and is (co-editor) of more than 15 conference and workshop proceedings. Moreover, he is/was co-editor of several special issues of well-established journals, including "Introduction of Software Product Lines", IEEE Software, 2002.§He is a member of the IFIP working-group 2.9 on software requirements engineering, member of the steering committee of the IEEE Intl. Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), member of the editorial board of the Requirements Engineering Journal and founder and member of the advisory board of the Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ) workshop series. He is/was program chair of various conferences and workshops including the IEEE Joint Intl. Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 02).
Biografie (Bernhard Rumpe)
Bernhard Rumpe lehrt an der RWTH Aachen den Einsatz modellbasierter Methoden auf Basis der UML für das Software Engineering und forscht an modellbasierten Software- und System-Entwicklungsmethoden in Bezug auf Qualität des Ergebnisses und Effizienz des Entwicklungsprozesses.§In einer Reihe von Publikationen hat er zur Standardisierung der UML und zur verbesserten Handhabung von Entwicklungsprozessen beigetragen. Er ist Autor und Editor von 14 Büchern sowie Mitgründer des internationalen Springer Journals on Software and Systems Modeling "SoSyM".