Research Topics
Naturally, for a software competence center, the primary focus of interest of industrial partners is software deelopment with a focus on classical Software Engineering problems. In a nutshell, this means that the applied research problems SCCH faces in such projects is centered around software processes and quality. Software quality requires mastering the languages and methods used in the development process.
SCCH has discovered that software architecture plays an important role in this process. Therefore, application-oriented projects put an emphasis on the use of integrated methods and software architecture. Furthermore, as the major focus of application is in a production-oriented context, research is devoted to domain-specific approaches and languages.
The focus on integration and formally verifiable software systems extends to data-intensive systems. The key problems research has to face are the formal integration of bulk data structures with processes, interaction, and interfaces on any level of abstraction, and the systematic reification into application systems.
More generally, running systems of any kind – not only software systems – provide rich collections of data. For SCCH, images of technical artifacts, sensor data, and bio-medical images are the primary focus of investi-gation, leading to a mixture of computer vision, data mining and machine learning.