News
EVOK successfully achieves its milestone targets
At the end of August 2020, the "Real-time on-site reconnaissance and mission monitoring" project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, successfully and officially entered its second half. All the goals set were presented comprehensively and to the complete satisfaction of all those involved, right on time for the milestone. For more than 18 months now, the team has been working closely with its partners at the Saxony-Anhalt State Office of Criminal Investigation and METOP GmbH. After the results of the first half, the second half promises to remain exciting.
As part of the project, the Chair of Software Engineering is involved in the creation, implementation and evaluation of a fusion algorithm, the definition, implementation and evaluation of information visualizations and the definition, implementation and evaluation of a communication component.
Mittelstand 4.0 goes into overtime
On August 1, 2020, the "Mittelstand 4.0 Kompetenzzentrum Magdeburg", funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), began its two-year extension. The aim of the project is to support small and medium-sized enterprises on their path towards digitalization.
In the Summertime…
No plans for the summer yet? Then check out the hackathon and summer camp organized by the Chair of Software Engineering!
Design your summer vacation yourself at the Hackathon Urlaub 4.0. Together with the Tourismusverband Sachsen-Anhalt e.V., we are looking for innovative and creative solutions on 31.08.2020 to give tourism in the state a boost with digital tools. And the best thing is: participation is free of charge and is possible on site at the AMO Magdeburg or virtually from your living room at home.
Otto is innovation: Chair of Software Engineering
Prof. Frank Ortmeier was interviewed by the city marketing association Pro M for the "otto is innovation" campaign. In addition to the connection to the state capital, the focus was also on interesting projects here at the chair. In particular, the "EVOK - Echtzeit Vor-Ort-Aufklärung und Einsatzmonitoring" project, which is being worked on in collaboration with the Saxony-Anhalt State Criminal Police Office and METOP GmbH, was discussed.
New additions to the ViP+ AuRora project
In May and July 2020, two additional specialists were recruited for the ViP+ AuRora project. This will strengthen and expand the skills of our research and development team in the areas of software architecture\-development by Julian Scholle (Cybernetics, Informatics) and robot application development by Erik May (Mechatronics).
Chair of Software Engineering at the Hannover Messe 2019
The Chair of Software Engineering, headed by Prof. Dr. Frank Ortmeier, presented its OPTIRob demonstrator at this year's Hannover Messe. The trade fair appearance took place as part of the joint stand "Research for the Future" of the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia from April 1 to 5, 2019.
Lectures and projects in the winter semester 2018/19
We are offering various lectures and projects in the current winter semester. You can find an overview of our lectures here.
We were also pleasantly surprised by the number of participants in the first lecture in Clean Code Development. We even had to change rooms for the first lecture because the number of students was so large. This seemed to be a first lesson in agile room requirements engineering.
Accepted workshop and journal paper and invitation to present at 26th ESEC/FSE
Our two workshop papers "Commits as a Basis for API Misuse Detection" by Sebastian, Robert and Frank and "Who plays with Whom? ... and How? Mining API Interaction Patterns from Source Code" by Robert, Sebastian and Frank have both been accepted for the 7th International Workshop on Software Mining in Montpellier, France, which takes place at the same time as ASE 2018.
Furthermore, our paper "Programmers do not Favor Lambda Expressions for Concurrent Object-Oriented Code" by Sebastian, Robert and Frank, which was published in the Springer journal "Empricial Software Engineering", was invited and accepted for presentation at the 26th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE) in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA.
ACM SAC research competition for students
Robert Heumüller and Jacob Krüger are currently taking part in the student research competition at the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2018.
Paper accepted for journal
Our paper "Programmers do not Favor Lambda Expressions for Concurrent Object-Oriented Code" by Sebastian Nielebock, Robert Heumüller and Frank Ortmeier has been accepted for publication in the Springer journal "Empirical Software Engineering".