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                                    Keynote
Approaches to Automation and Interoperability
           in Systems Engineering

                                    Tom Ritter

                        Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

    Creating large and complex systems typically involves a number of potentially
geographically separated development teams and a number of various different
tools. These two aspects are two important dimensions of complexity, which
should be considered when planning large system engineering efforts. The im-
portance of these aspects has become increasingly eminent and recent approaches
try to handle these issues. Among them are OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle
Collaboration) and ModelBus R . Those approaches address the platform aspect
of system engineering on complementary level of abstraction and are a step
forward with respect to integration and interoperability challenges. These ap-
proaches set de facto standards, which is important to increase efficiency in sys-
tems engineering. Based on these considerations big European initiatives like the
ARTMIS Joint Undertaking projects CRYSTAL and VARIES started to work
on a Reference Technology Platform with the goal to improve interoperability.
The talk will present challenges and solutions in large-scale system engineering
efforts and focuses on the aspect of collaboration and standardisation.




Dr. Tom Ritter graduated with a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Tech-
nical University of Berlin and did his PhD in 2011 at Humboldt University Berlin in
modeling quality of service of component oriented systems. Since 1998 he worked at
Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS in the area of tool development and distributed systems.
Since 2006 he was heading the Model-Driven Engineering group at FOKUS and from
2010 he was the Deputy Head of the competence center SQC (formerly MOTION).
As of December 2013 he is Head of the Competence Center ”System Quality Center”
(SQC). His major interest is the model-driven software engineering, the development
of software tools, software development processes, tool integration infrastructure and
the consideration of non-functional properties and QoS at design and execution time.
Tom is one of the Co-Authors of a CORBA Component based Middleware Platform
(Qedo). Since 2004 Tom participated to the design of the tool integration infrastruc-
ture ModelBus and he is heading the ModelBus development team. Tom is involved in
different standardization activities at the Object Management Group, he is co-author
on books about components and services and contributes continuously to workshops and
conferences.

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