ITEA 2 Symposium: European Leadership in Software-intensive Systems

Concerning science and research, Europe plays a leading role – but not in transforming research results into concrete products. This paradox, together with deficits at the interfaces between science and business, is an essential motivation for the European research programme “Information Technology for European Advancement” (ITEA). The elimination of these drawbacks – which are quite evident in the global comparison – has a strategic relevance for the European economy, especially for the industrial sector.

IITEA supports the European industry in taking the leading role in the area of Software-intensive Systems. These are systems in which software covers a significant part of the functionality, of the development costs and the development time. Their wide spreading turns them into a key technology across all business branches – a trend that gains additional momentum because of the rapid progression in the area of embedded systems.

"The core challenge of ITEA 2 is to face up to the dramatic shift to embedded SiS that is affecting all aspects of everyday life…"
(from ITEA 2 Website; SiS = Software-intensive Systems)

After the success of ITEA the research initiative now is continued as ITEA 2 with new projects. ITEA 2 focuses especially on the development of embedded systems and their application.

ITEA 2 Symposium

The ITEA 2 Symposium took place on the 18th and 19th of October 2007 in the Berliner Congress Center (bcc) in Berlin, Germany. Numerous projects from both economy and science presented their results and several hundred interested visitors got information about the latest developments in various technical areas.

Embedded Systems and PESOA

Embedded systems require high flexibility and quality of the associated software development processes. They are well-suited for a model-based approach and for the automated implementation using generators. Delta Software Technology has proven within the research project “Process Family Engineering in Service-Oriented Applications” (PESOA) that generative tools are able to boost the efficiency of the development processes significantly. Cord Giese, Research Analyst at Delta Software Technology, presented the process-based concept for a product line architecture developed for PESOA and demonstrated its practical implementation using an example from the automotive area.

PESOA - Process Family Engineering Cord Giese, Research Analyst at Delta Software Technology, presented the process-based concept for a product line architecture developed for PESOA and demonstrated its practical implementation using an example from the automotive area.

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