Understanding, processing and utilising relevant data from a wide range of sources has become a central component of digital transformation in both the public and private sector. In this context, gaining insight and developing methodologies towards establishing data-driven services contributes to so-called “data sovereignty”. However, such potentials are far less exploited for municipal and regional authorities than for national and federal administrations or private businesses and industry.

Agile frameworks are a well-established methodology for software development and other activities. But the Agile Manifesto and frameworks like Scrum leave many tasks and options open for interpretation and implementation. For example, Scrum starts with a filled product backlog, but does not include a process for requirements engineering. The Agile Frameworks project deals with questions and open steps like this.

IoT is a multi-aspect domain that encompass heterogeneous technology stack applying hardware, software and network. Moreover, IoT development activities require the participation of various stakeholders that provide expertise in different domains and they have different concerns regarding the system. These concerns may cover different aspects of the IoT system, such as system requirements, interoperability between hardware and software, network aspects, etc. To effectively conduct development activities, stakeholders need a common infrastructure, where they can address their concerns regarding the system from their own viewpoint. Concerns may cover various aspects like requirements, “thing” components, services, etc. As stakeholders work on different aspects of the IoT system, there is a need to ensure the consistency of the elements within the system. Therefore, viewpoints need to be integrated to allow keeping elements synchronized in different views.

This project addresses challenges of describing IoT aspects in the form of viewpoints and integration of viewpoints.

The SuMoCoS project (Sustainability and Mobility in the Context of Smart cities) is a travelling conference with project partners in Germany, Uzbekistan and Mongolia.

The aim of the project is to strengthen the cooperation between all project partners and to further deepen the understanding of the theoretical and practical challenges of Smart City projects in Central Asia. In addition, there will be an exchange of knowledge between the participants with the aim of deepening and promoting cooperation in research and in economic projects.

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In this cooperation project, TARGIS GmbH and the University of Oldenburg examine approaches to software development and maintenance, including tool support. These approaches are targeted to the concrete requirements of the TARGIS GmbH, and are tested and refined in an application environment.

Programming is one of the fundamental skills any aspiring computer scientist must possess. To assist students in their endeavor, the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg provides several courses on different levels that cover the relevant topics in the field of programming. Goal of the “Harmonisation of the Training in Programming” (HTP) project is to optimize the existing set of courses, to identify and eliminate overlap, to leverage synergies, to incorporate new findings from didactic research, and to re-organize where necessary.

With more than 60% of the german population living in rural areas, where public transport coverage is, in general, declining, diverse mobility needs arise. NEMo is an interdisciplinary, holistic approach towards fulfilling those needs by considering social, demographic, accessibility, legal, economic, and ecological conditions and objectives. IT is seen as key enabler to create a mobility platform software system for the provision and consumation of mobility services.

The software engineering group seeks to research, develop, and apply novel means to bridge the semantic gap between business processes and component-based implementations. The group's Sensei approach, originally conceived as service-oriented, model-driven framework for tool integration, provides the basis, and will be extended and generalized to meet the demands of the NEMo project in particular, and software development beyond tool integration, in general.

In multi-perspective software development, several perspectives exist presenting different views on the developed artefacts. Because some perspectives handle the same data and all the data have relationships between each other, there is a strong need for synchronization of the data between different perspectives. To solve this problem, this project aims at developing and validating a method for integrating the single metamodels of each perspective into one integrated single underlying metamodel (SUMM).

This research area includes the development of process models for software development and software evolution, and the adaption of existing process models for specific needs of companies.

The research of ExploIT Dynamics focuses on utilizing and controlling of dynamic systems in which systems should be improved in each step. Thereby, software-intensive systems which have a high rate of changes should be considered. To achieve an improved system, a dynamic system must be observed, analyzed, decided, and actuated.

Since large scaled software models typically exist in many revisions, extraction and representation of differences between versions is a crucial issue of model versioning systems. While handling model differences is playing an essential role in evolution of models, there is a need for appropriate techniques to maintain model changes and analyse model histories. This PhD thesis intents to reveal appropriate approaches to versioning software models which is substantial challenge of current MVCS.