paluno – The Ruhr Institute for Software Technology

Collaboration and International News

paluno collaborates with numerous national and international research institutions and industrial research centres in many research projects, including:

4C4learn (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, (BMBF), Corporate coaching for sustainable competence management in SMEs, total funding volume approx. 158,000 euros)
Advert (German Research Foundation (DFG), Concepts, Methods and Tools for Architecture- and Quality-centric Evolution of Long-living Software Systems, total funding volume approx. 259,000 euros)
Augment (Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), augmented human-computer interfaces for designing living environments for elderly people, total funding volume approx. 116,000 euros)
AUTEM (German Research Foundation (DFG), Automated detection of modeling errors in business process models, total funding volume approx. 350,000 euros)
BESOS (EU FP7 STREP, Building Energy Decision Support Systems for Smart Cities, total funding volume approx. 2.9 M euros)
Bildungsgerechtigkeit im Fokus Teilprojekt 1.2/Focus on Educational Justice, Subproject 1.2 (Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), total funding volume approx. 1.4 M euros)
Bildungsgerechtigkeit im Fokus Teilprojekt 2/Subproject 2 (Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), expansion of blended-learning scenarios and their incorporation in the curriculum, total funding volume approx. 3.8 M euros)
ClouDAT (EU, Development of an Open-Source Cloud Data Analysis Tool, total funding volume approx. 860,000 euros)
CloudWave (EU FP7 IP, Agile Service Engineering for the Future Internet, total funding volume approx. 6.3 M euros)
CPS.HUB NRW (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Competence Center for Cyber Physical Systems, total funding volume approx. 4.3 M euros)
EC-SAFEMOBIL (EU FP7 STREP, Platform for the Deployment and Operation of EIT KIC InnoEnergy MrCySeMol, total funding volume approx. 1.3 M euros)
EmployID (EU FP7, Scalable & cost-effective facilitation of professional identity transformation in public employment services, total funding volume approx. 573,000 euros)
FIWARE (EU FP7 IP, Future Internet Core Platform, total funding volume approx. 40 M euros)
FIspace (EU FP7 IP, Future Internet Business Collaboration Networks in Agri-Food, Transport and Logistics, total funding volume approx. 13.5 M euros)
GAMBAS (EU FP7 STREP, Generic Adaptive Middleware for Behavior-driven Autonomous Services, total funding volume approx. 2.2 M euros)
GenEDA (German Research Foundation (DFG), Systematic Generation and Evaluation of Design Alternatives for Software Architectures, total funding volume approx. 356,000 euros)
Research Training Group (German Research Foundation (DFG), User-Centered Social Media, total funding volume approx. 5 M euros Heterogeneous Networked Cooperating Objects, total funding volume approx. 4.5 M euros)
Horizon 2020 SME Action Cyberwiz Cyber-Security Visualization and CAD-Tool for the Vulnerability Assessment of Critical Infrastructures (total funding volume approx. 1.6 M euros)
iObserve (German Research Foundation (DFG), Integrated Observation and Modeling Techniques to Support Adaptation and Evolution of Software Systems, total funding volume approx. 1.4 M euros)
KOPI (German Research Foundation (DFG), Consistency checks for product line models, total funding volume 280,000 euros)
LoFIP (ERDF/ZIEL.2, Logistic Future-Internet-Platform, total funding volume approx. 6.5 M euros)
MARTINA (European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), CreateMedia in Mobility and Logistics – Innovative Development in Logistics Training and Further Education in North Rhine-Westphalia, total funding volume approx. 800,000 euros)
Mirror (EU FP7, Reflective Learning at Work, total funding volume approx. 657,000 euros)
MOOCS (Mercur project, Educational and technological concepts for collaborative learning in massive open online courses, total funding volume approx. 83,000 euros)
NESSoS (EU FP7, Network of excellence on Engineering Secure Future Internet Software Services and Systems, total funding volume approx. 3.8 M euros)
OPTET (FP7 IP, OPerational Trustworthiness Enabling Technologies, total funding volume approx. 7.1 M euros)
Pflegebrille (Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Smart glasses to support professional and informal carers, total funding volume approx. 585,000 euros)
PLANET (EU FP7 Integrated Project, Platform for the Deployment and Operation of Heterogeneous Networked Cooperating Objects, total funding volume approx. 4.9 M euros)
ProWAAL (Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Training in Ambient Assisted Living, total funding volume approx. 413,000 euros)
Sim4BGM (Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Simulation for occupational health management, total funding volume approx. 180,000 euros)
SMARTKYE (EU FP7 STREP, Smart Grid Key Neighborhood Indicator Cockpit, total funding volume approx. 2 M euros)
SMART-ACTION (EU FP7 CA, SMART-ACTION, total funding volume approx. 750,000 euros)
SPES XTCore (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, (BMBF), Software Platform Embedded Systems 2020 XTCore, total funding volume approx. 14.8 M euros)
Symphony (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), total funding volume approx. 1.7 M euros)

International recognition of paluno is reflected among other things in its role in the scientific management and organization of internationally respected conferences, such as:

SOFSEM 2014 (40th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, High Tatras, Slovenia, 25-30 January 2014)
SEI 2014 (Software Engineering Ideen 2014, Kiel, Germany, 25-28 February 2014)
Multi-Conference Business Information Systems 2014 (sub-conference “Adoption, use and success of artifacts in business computer science”, Paderborn, 26-28 February 2014)
BIS 2014 17th International Conference on Business Information Systems, Larnaca, Cyprus, 22-23 May 2014)
ICSE 2014/RCoSE (1st International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering, Hyderabad, India, 3 June 2015)
WETICE 2014 (IEEE 23rd International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises 2014, Parma, Italy, 23-25 June 2014)
ICWE 2014 (International Conference on Web Engineering, Toulouse, France, 1-4 July 2014)
SESoS 2014 (2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems, Vienna, Austria, 26 August 2014)
ECSA 2014 (8th European Conference on Software Architecture, Vienna, Austria, 25-29 August 2014)
SEAA 2014 (40th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, Verona, Italy, 27-29 August 2014)
ICSME2014 (30th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution – Industry Track, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 28 September – 3 October 2014)
VaMoS 8th International Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-intensive Systems, 2014
SWQD2015 (Software Quality Days 2015, Vienna, Austria, 20-23 January 2015)
IEEE Mobile Cloud 2015 (The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services and Engineering, San Francisco, USA, 30 March – 3 April 2015)
SESoS 2015 (3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering for Systems-of-Systems, Florence, Italy, 17 May 2015)
ICSE 2015/SEIP (Software Engineering in Practice, track of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, Florence, Italy, 16-25 May 2015)
ICSE 2015/RCoSE (2nd International Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering, track of the 36th International Conference on Software Engineering, Florence, Italy, 23 May 2015)
WETICE 2015 (The 24th IEEE International Conference on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, Larnaca, Cyprus, 15-17 June 2015)
ICWE 2015 (15th International Conference on Web Engineering, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 23-26 June 2015)
BIS 2015 (18th International Conference on Business Information Systems, Poznań, Poland, 24-26 June 2015)
SEAA 2015 (41st Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, 26-28 August 2015)
ECSA 2015/VAQUITA (1st Workshop on Variability for Qualities in Software Architecture, Dubrovnik/Cavtat, Croatia, 7 September 2015)
ECSA 2015 (9th European Conference on Software Architecture, Dubrovnik/Cavtat, Croatia, 7-11 September 2015)
BIGDSE (International Workshop on BIG Data Software Engineering) at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2015