Among others, my research interests include the following:

• Reverse engineering with focus on software architectures, and behavioural specifications
• Search based software engineering, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, and machine learning
• Evolution of software systems
• Software performance engineering and evaluation of quality of service
• Component-based software engineering and engineering of high-quality software architectures
• Model driven software development
• Foundations of modelling and meta-modelling

Publications are listed on a separate page.

I am involved or have been involved in numerous lectures: Component-Based Software Engineering (Komponentenbasierte Software-Entwicklung), Software Architectures (Software-Architekturen), Model-Driven Software Development (Modellgetriebene Software-Entwicklung),  Component-Based Software Architectures (Komponentenbasierte Software-Architekturen), and Software-Evolution. Typical involvements covers multiple terms. Furthermore, I have supervised numerous seminars, study, bachelor, diploma and master theses.

Completed theses include the following

• Diploma thesis: "Extending Performance-Oriented Resource Modeling in the Palladio Component Model (PCM)", Michael Hauck, thesis completed 2009-02
• Study thesis: "Software Model Extractor (SoMoX)", Benjamin Klatt, thesis completed 2009-01
• Study thesis: "Vergleich von Lernverfahren für die Software Performanz Analyse", finished in 2008-10
• Bachelor thesis: "Parameteranalyse in Software-Komponenten mit Hilfe symbolischer Ausführung", Iulia Chirila, thesis completed 2008-08
• Diploma thesis: "Entwicklung eines auf Eclipse und GMF basierenden, graphischen Modellierungswerkzeugs für das Palladio Komponentenmodell", Johann Kiefel, thesis completed 2007-09
• Diploma thesis: "Rekonstruktion von Software-Architekturen", Landry Chouambe, thesis completed 2007-06

Please note that this list is quite incomplete and not covering later theses.