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We are happy to announce that our paper Scientific Workflow Execution in the Cloud using a Dynamic Runtime Model was recently accepted by the Software and Systems Modeling journal. In the paper, a runtime model approach for scientific workflows is presented that uses the Open Cloud Computing Interface standard to provision cloud infrastructure on demand. To investigate the feasibility of our approach, we modeled and performed three workflows which highlight the capabilities to parallelize workload and use a human-in-the-loop interacting with the workflow at runtime.

During the semester break, our research group will offer a practical course on agile software development. In this course, students will learn about selected agile software development methods and practices and apply them in dedicated projects with the help of selected tools. The participants will be learning and applying their knowledge on three levels, including processes and practices, project-specific domain knowledge, implementation- and tool-specific aspects.Depending on the specific software projects, the students will get familiar with various state-of-the-art technologies and tools for software engineering and for the realisation of the specific project. The course will offer an insight into real-world software development, as well as other relevant aspects such as self learning, team work, and problem solving.

Our group will offer the following courses during the upcoming winter term:

• Advanced Topics in Software Engineering (WS2022)
• Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion (WS2022)
• Requirements Engineering (WS2022)
• Software Testing (WS2022)

All students interested in the courses should register for the courses in Stud.IP.

We are happy to announce that our paper "MoDMaCAO: A model-driven framework for the design, validation and configuration management of cloud applications based on OCCI" was recently accepted by the Software and Systems Modeling journal. The paper is a joint work of our group members Fabian Korte, Johannes Erbel, and Jens Grabowski with the researchers Philippe Merle, Stéphanie Challita, and Faiez Zalila from INRIA. In the paper, a model-driven framework is presented that extends the OCCI standard to support the management of platform elements on top of infrastructural resources using configuration management script. Hereby, we defined a framework to support the design, validation and management of cloud applications by utilizing the uniform interface and data model of OCCI.