FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMentaL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING IESE ANNUAL REPORT 2011/2012 THE FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING IESE Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE Fraunhofer-Platz 1 67663 Kaiserslautern Germany Phone +49 631 6800-6000 Fax +49 631 6800-1099 www.iese.fraunhofer.de Executive Director Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Dieter Rombach Software is a part of our lives. Embedded into everyday equipment, into living and working environments or modern means of transportation, countless processors and controllers make Scientific Director our lives simpler, safer, and more pleasant. We help organizations to develop software systems Prof. Dr.-Ing. that are reliable in every aspect, and provide empirical proof of the necessary processes, Peter Liggesmeyer methods, and techniques, emphasizing engineering-style principles such as measurability and transparency. Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern is one of the worldwide leading research institutes in the area of software and systems development. A major portion of the products offered by its collabora- tion partners is defined by software. These products range from automotive and transportation systems via automation and plant engineering, information systems, health care and medical systems to software systems for the public sector. The solutions allow flexible scaling. This makes the institute a competent technology partner for organizations of any size - from small companies to major corporations. Under the leadership of Prof. Dieter Rombach and Prof. Peter Liggesmeyer, Fraunhofer IESE has spent the last fifteen years making major contributions to strengthening the emerging IT hub Kaiserslautern. In the Fraunhofer Information and Communication Technology Group, it is cooperating with other Fraunhofer institutes on developing trend-setting key technologies for the future. Fraunhofer IESE is one of 60 institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Together they have a major impact on shaping applied research in Europe and contribute to Germany’s competitive- ness in international markets. © 2012 Fraunhofer IESE Editorial Notes Editorial Board: Dipl.-Dolmetscherin Sonnhild Namingha (Project Management, Editor) Translation: Dipl.-Dolm. Sonnhild Namingha Layout and Setting: Dipl.-Betriebswirt (BA) Stephan Thiel CD-ROM Production: digiCon AG, Kornwestheim Photographs: Fraunhofer IESE Fraunhofer PR-Netzwerk iStockphoto.com CoBRA®, CROCODILE®, FAME®, GQM+Strategies®, NiXE®, John Deere ( p. 69/87) OSR®, PuLSE® and SPEARMINT® are registered trademarks of Eckert & Ziegler (p. 71) Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. DESY (p. 91) All other products and tradenames may be registered by their Hans-Joachim Rickel, respective owners. A lack of such indication does not imply Federal Ministry of the Interior (p. 97) that a particular name is free of third-party rights. EDITORIAL INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH MOBILE SErvicES Dear reader, In 2011, we drastically increased our preliminary research on the topic of “mobile end devices” in the Software-Cluster In all branches of industry, innovations are increasingly driven “Software Innovations for the Digital Enterprise” (for informa- by software. If you want to stay ahead of your competitors, tion systems). Collaboration in this project is open to addition- you will need innovative software and the leading software al companies. In cooperation with the European Technology development expertise available in your domain. Depend- Innovation Center of the agricultural machinery manufacturer able software requires professional development processes. John Deere in Kaiserslautern, first applications are currently Fraunhofer IESE is a competent and reliable partner for com- being tested in practice. panies from all sectors of industry regarding the subject of “Software Engineering”. We offer highly innovative methods We have established a task force that is committed to merging and tools for the software development of embedded systems empirical evidence about our core competencies and comple- and information systems as well as process know-how for the menting these wherever necessary. This will help us to adapt successful introduction of such methods and tools. our offers even better to company-specific requirements and will allow us to provide ROI estimates. Building on our competencies in the area of cyber-physical systems, we increasingly directed our attention to the use of There is much that remains to do. The rapid technological mobile end devices for product-oriented services in the past progress keeps presenting us with new challenges that we year. We are helping manufacturers of agricultural machinery are eager to accept. We have many ideas for new projects to test the use of smartphones and tablets to support agri- with our collaboration partners and those wanting to cooper- cultural workflows and to evaluate their added value. Mobile ate with us in the future. IESE enjoys global visibility. This is end devices are also used to support workflows in numerous reflected in the rising numbers of international collaborations other domains, e.g., in health care to facilitate communica- with partners from science and industry. In the USA, Australia, tion between doctors, nurses, and patients; in production to and Brazil, we have already founded centers. You, too, can use situation-related information for maintenance; or among become a partner of IESE! Make use of our competence and financial service provider to provide support for their sales benefit from our international network. We will support you representatives on the road. Software engineering challenges on your way towards more innovation and competitiveness include how to design suitable user interfaces and how to en- through dependable software! sure the necessary data security. We hope you find this report both informative and inspiring – Dieter Rombach Peter Liggesmeyer Prof. Dr. Dieter Rombach Prof. Dr. Peter Liggesmeyer 4 I 5 CONTENT PROFILE OF FRAUNHOFER IESE 9 HIghlight in 2011 10 Outlook on 2012 14 The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft 20 Fraunhofer IESE and its network partners 22 IESE in Fraunhofer Groups and Alliances 26 Organizational Structure 34 The Advisory Board 36 Personnel and Budget 37 BUSINESS AREAS 39 Automotive and Transportation Systems 40 Automation and Plant Engineering 42 Medical Devices 44 Information Systems 46 eGovernment 48 Health Care 50 DT EPAR MENTS 53 Division Embedded Systems 55 Division Process Management 59 Division Information Systems 63 PROJECTS 67 JOHN DEERE: Operator in the Loop 68 ECKERT & ZIEGLER: Future Trends for Safety and Usability in Radiation Therapy 70 KSB: Establishment of a Future-Proof and Sustainable Software Architecture 72 SPES 2020 – Functional Safety in the Model-Based Development of Embedded Systems 74 ARAMiS – Automotive, Railway and Avionics Multicore Systems 76 DEviSE – Dynamic Identification, Extraction and Reuse of Components in Distributed Software Development 78 MUREX: Sustainig Success through Business Alignment, Goal-Oriented Measurement, and Best Practice-Based Software Process Improvement 80 ZLB – Central State-Wide Treatment Capacity Indicator in Rhineland-Palatinate 82 MULTI – Multi-Touch Interaction for Smart Homes, Energy Management und (Virtual) Museums 84 JOHN DEERE: Design and Prototype Implementation of a Mobile Task Management Solution 86 ACCENTURE CAS: Methodological Support for the Architecture Definition of the New Mobile Platform 88 DESY: Business-Process-Oriented IT Solutions at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchronotron 90 6 INSIDERS TECHNOLOGIES: Positive User Experience – Interaction Design 92 automotiveHMI – Optimized HMI Development in the Automotive Industry 94 P23R | Prozess-Daten-Beschleuniger: Simple, Safe and Efficient Fulfillment of Information Obligations 96 ATTRACT – Security for Distributed Data 98 SOFTWARE CLUSTER: Enforcement of Security Policies across Corporate Boundaries 100 FIBUNET: Keeping the Figures under Control through Continous Modernization 102 InternationaL ACTIVITIES 105 Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering, Maryland (CESE) 107 Fraunhofer Project Center for Transport and Logistics in Australia 116 Fraunhofer Project Center on Software and Systems Engineering in Brazil 118 NUTES – Brazil‘s Crash Test for Software in Medical Devices 120 Business Alignment with GQM+Strategies® – Headed for Success with the Right Software and Information Strategy 122 MUNDUS – Multimodal Neuroprosthesis for Daily Upper Limb Support 124 ContaCT 127 How to find us 128 Fraunhofer IESE Contact Persons 132 Information Service 135 APPENDIX 137 Network in Science and Industry 138 Professional Contributions 144 Scientific Contributions 155 Awards 165 7 TABLE OF CONTENT TABLE OF CONTENT PROFILE OF FRAUNHOFER IESE HIghlight in 2011 10 Outlook on 2012 14 The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft 20 Fraunhofer IESE and its Network Partners 22 IESE in Fraunhofer Groups and Alliances 26 Organizational Structure 34 The Advisory Board 36 Personnel and Budget 37 8 I 9 TABLE OF CONTENT HIGHLIGHT OF THE YEAR 2011 15 YEARS OF INNOvaTIVE, APPLICATION- ORIENTED RESEARCH IN KAISERSLAUTERN: FRAUNHOFER IESE LOOKING AMBITIOUSLY TO THE FUTURE 15 years ago, the founding of the first Fraunhofer institution To accomplish this goal, innovation is called for. “The ability in Kaiserslautern, which in 2000 became the first Fraunhofer to innovate is the major criterion for competitiveness today”, Institute in Rhineland-Palatinate, was an important step to- stated Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Bullinger, chairman of