Content Factory

The objective of this project is the development of a business plan for a spin-off related to EAM tools.

EAMTS2008 -  Enterprise Architecture Management Tool Survey 2008

EAMVS2008 - Enterprise Architecture Management Viewpoint Survey 2008

The Enterprise Architecture Management Viewpoint Survey analyzes best practices and trends in the area of enterprise architecture management. There is a special focus on the methodologies and models used.

MAPL - Metrics for Application Landscapes

The goal of this project is to develop metrics  and tools which help to assess the quality of software landscapes. Both formal and experimental methods are used in this project.

UCSS - User-Centered Social Software

User-centered social aims to bridge the gap between desktop personal information management and web-based social community platforms. Central contributions are a schema-free data model, an intuitive and integrated user interface, and an extensible information adapter architecture basd on established web service APIs.

SoCa - Software Cartography

This research project focuses on garthering information about the structure of business applications in current enterprises. This information is consolidated and analyzed with a special emphasis on the concepts and notations used for describing the interdependencies between business applications with their relationships to business concepts such as business processes or organizational units.

IMDD - Introspective Model-Driven Development

The goal of IMDD is to improve the consistency between a system and its domain-specific models throughout the system life cycle.The models are extracted from the source code in a systematic way through introspection based on a common compact metamodel. We have demonstrated the benefits of this approach for the domain of interactive web applications.

Turnpike - Security Modeling and Verification for Java Business Applications

Turnpike delivered code analysis tools and formal verification algorithms to perform efficient and complete authorization checks in Java-based enterprise software based on declaratively specified authorization policies.

EAMTS2005 - Enterprise Architecture Management Tool Survey 2005

The Enterprise Architecture Management Tool Survey 2005 evaluates the products of nine major players in the market of Enterprise Architecture Management Tools. It is meant to provide decision support to potential buyers of such tools.

Kolibri: Cooperative catalog management tools for digital reference libraries and e-business applications

DBPL - A  type-complete modular database programming language

The DBPL project tackled the problem of supporting data-intensive applications in a single framework, clean and simple in its conceptual foundation and free of technical mismatches. DBPL is based on Modula-2 with three built-in extensions which, at that time, were considered necessary (and sufficient) for data-intensive applications: