Current Projects:

RE Analysis at DLH
The goal of the project is the identification of potential optimizations in the Requirements Engineering of the Deutschen Lufthansa AG (DLH). Based on the potential optimizations that have been evaluated in a case study suggestions concerning the RE process of the DLH should be made.
Contact person: Birgit Penzenstadler, Daniel Mendez

Quamoco
The Quamoco Consortium develops a quality standard for software that is applicable in practice. A method for the specification of requirements to the quality is a part thereof. Contact person: Klaus Lochmann

ReForm: Requirements Formalization
The goal of the project is to extract system models from requirements document, to validate the extracted models, and in this way to formalize requirements.
Contact person: Leonid Kof

SQK: Quality Competences at Small-scale Software Producers
Contact person: Mario Gleirscher

Completed Projects:

RE Solution 6
The project represents a case study hosted by Siemens in which the artefact-based RE approach VM BISA (for the application domain of business information systems) is evaluated.
Contact person: Daniel Méndez-Fernández

Quasar Requirements School
Quasar Requirements is a model-based RE approach being developed in a research cooperation between the Technische Universität München and Capgemini sd&m AG. The approach is integrated into the architecture framework of Capgemini sd&m (Quasar). The project aims at the definition of training concepts and the performance of training courses.
Contact person: Daniel Méndez-Fernández

SOA@Innovation Labs
The project aims at the definition and evaluation of a semantic foundation of the basic concepts used in the area of service-oriented architecture in a cooperation with the SOA Innovation Labs in general and the Deutsche Post in particular. To reach this aim, the project is performed over two stages. First, an integrated modelling theory of the research group is completed for functional concepts used in process modelling, service modelling and the inference of a logical component architecture. The theory is defined via mathematical models referring to the FOCUS theory. In a second step, a case study is conducted in which we assess the modelling theory in direct comparison to given modelling techniques developed by the Deutsche Post.
Contact person: Daniel Méndez-Fernández

BASE.XT:
BASE.XT is a research project together with the Automobile Industry. Goal of the project is to develop a continuous process for the development of the automobile specific software systems. The development process turns out to be along different abstracts levels. In the upper abstract level, functional requirement are formal-modelled, to simulate the user behaviour and to check for inconsistencies.
Contact person: Sabine Rittmann


CawarFlow
CawarFlow is an interdisciplinary project in collaboration with MITI Group of the Faculty of Medicine of Technischen Universität München. The project will run for the next two years and it will be financed from the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft. Thema of the CawarFlow project is the usage of the knowledge domains in form of Workflow description to enhance the efficiency and the accuracy of the automatic adaptation, which will be carried out from the adaptive context. The results are validated on the basis of a case study on the gallbladder excision using a minimal invasive surgery
Contact person: Wassiou Sitou

REM
the key-concept, that together with Siemens SCR in Princeton developed RE Reference Model (REM) [REM zusam., REM orig.] is the orientation to an essential RE Artefact Model – a Model of the acquired contents (Artefact) of the Requirement- and System specifications (see also Research Areas). It guides the Analysis of customer and user requirements, and it allows an essential system concept, that supports the systematic development and functional Modelling of system requirements. In the model, the specified consistence and the independent criteria allow the qualitative revision of the specifications and its goal-oriented adjustment to ensure the layout determination. Currently following development and instance implementation of REM are ongoing in collaboration with different Industrial partners.
Contact person: Eva Geisberger

REMSES
The goal of the REMsES project is the elaboration of a validated, practical guidebook for a systematic requirements engineering and management (REM) of embedded systems especially in the automotive domain on the basis of a differentiated artefact model. Structuring the relevant information takes place across various abstraction layers, which are tailored for the application domain (e.g. automotive). See also http://www.remses.org
Contact person: Birgit Penzenstadler

Quasar Requirements
Requirements Engineering and Management operating Information systems (REMbIS) is a project in cooperation with Capgemini, sd&m and the TU München with the goal to develop a manual for artefact orienting Requirements Engineering and Management operating Information systems. The artefact is divided after the abstract levels of the Enterprise-Architecture.
Contact person: Daniel Méndez-Fernández


DENTUM
In this project we work together with colleagues of the Japanese supplier „Denso“, in a case study (an Adaptive Cruise Control System) universal modelled, beginning with informal textual user requirements, that is gradually modelled and structured in a service hierarchy, then using the instruments AutoFOCUS in machines, sequence diagram et al. are formal modelled, till codification and deployment on a control device
Contact person: Martin Feilkas

MOBILSOFT
In Bavarian Research Cooperation „Software technique for the Automobile of the future” (MOBILSOFT), an Initiative of the High-Tech-Offensive Bayern, our Chair had the project leadership et al. in the particular project "Requirements Management". With regards to contests it followed pragmatic rudiments for a model based Requirements Engineering for embedded Software systems in the Automotive Domains. Project partners were et al. BMW CarIT, Siemens VDO and ESG.
Contact person: Andreas Fleischmann

AUTORAID
The requirements management instrument, AutoRAID, was developed as a model based requirement analysis- and system definition Instrument, which supports the goal oriented formulation and coordination of the different requirements, using an essential system modeling view. Using the according iterative verification and consolidation of the developed requirements and design model, an integrated requirement and system specification is realized.
Contact person: Eva Geisberger

REFOCUS
in the internal Chair project REFOCUS was developed a Requirements-Engineering Methodology for embedded systems. The project counts on concepts of the embedded system modelling and appropriate industrial RE-project consulting. In common with the instrument project AutoRAID was built a manual for the model based Requirements Engineering.
Contact person: Eva Geisberger

INREMOVE
Scope of the research project "Integration of Requirements, Modelling and Verification" (INREMOVE) was the design of an integrated Requirements-Engineering and -Management Processes, which deliveries automatic, easy to handle for the future, formal specifications. Project partners are amongst others the Stanford Research Institute and the Army Research Office.
Contact person: Markus Pister

EMPRESS
In the project "Evolution Management and Process for Real-time Embedded Software Systems" (EMPRESS) file something like a dozen Teams, from all Europe, a Software-Engineering-Process for intensive revision software systems. Project partners were amongst other the Fraunhofer Institute IESE and FIRST, the TU Eindhoven, Daimler Chrysler and Siemens. Our Chair Team took the challenge to support the Software Engineering Process through a sophisticated Requirements Engineering. With it, we contend the sharp end of the Front line, and it was under our responsibility to change the requirements at the starting point and to bring them in the right lanes, from where they can be further elaborated by Designer and Developers
Contact person: Andreas Fleischmann
Website: http://www.empress-itea.org/