Jürgen Thanhofer-Pilisch (former student researcher in Research Module 1; 1st from right) and Andreas Schörgenhumer (student researcher in Research Module 3; 2nd from right) were nominees of the IEEE Student Paper Contest 2016. Congratulations! The award was sponsored by our industry partner Primetals Technologies.

On September 30, 2016, Michael Vierhauser defended his dissertation to earn his doctoral degree! Congratulations! Special thanks goes to all members of the committee. The picture shows (from left to right) Rick Rabiser (2nd supervisor), Armin Biere (head of the committee), Dr. Michael Vierhauser, Sam Guinea (external assessor, Politecnico di Milano), Paul Grünbacher (supervisor), and … Continue reading Congratulations, Michael! →

Research PC Co-Chair Rick Rabiser presenting the main conference tracks in the welcome session of SPLC 2016, the 20th International Software Product Line Conference (September 19-23, Beijing, China).

Our column Monitoring Requirements in Systems of Systems can be found here. Michael Vierhauser also provided a podcast.

Paul Grünbacher was recently interviewed by Informatik Austria. The interview (in German) can be found here.

We are happy to announce that the paper Feature Modeling of Two Large-scale Industrial Software Systems: Experiences and Lessons Learned co-authored by Daniela Lettner (Rabiser), Klaus Eder (KEBA AG), Paul Grünbacher and Herbert Prähofer received a Best Paper Award at the MDE in Practice Track at the ACM/IEEE 18th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering … Continue reading Best Paper Award @ MODELS 2015 →

Michael Vierhauser and Rick Rabiser presented the ReMinds tool suite on September 18 at the R&D Status Meeting of Primetals Technologies EA ISC.

We are happy that two papers on research results of our lab will be presented at the 30th IEEE/ACM Int’l Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2015), which will take place in Lincoln, Nebraska (USA). Configuration-Aware Change Impact Analysis (Authors: Florian Angerer, Andreas Grimmer, Herbert Prähofer, Paul Grünbacher) Understanding variability is essential to allow the … Continue reading @ASE 2015 →

The FOSD Meeting is an informal workshop within the field of software development for variability-rich software systems and feature-oriented software development (FOSD). The FOSD meeting 2015 was organized by Florian Angerer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria), Sven Apel (Universität Passau, Germany), Christian Kästner (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Herbert Prähofer (JKU Linz, Austria) and Paul Grünbacher … Continue reading FOSD Meeting 2015 — International Academy Traunkirchen, Austria — May 13-16, 2015 →

The lab is cooperating with Politechnico di Milano, Italy (Prof. Dr. Luciano Baresi, Dr. Sam Guinea, Dr. Clément Quinton) in the areas of constraint languages for runtime monitoring and dynamic software product lines. During a recent visit Michael Vierhauser and Rick Rabiser gave a talk at Politechnico di Milano on the REMINDS requirements monitoring infrastructure.