News & Activities
2026 – 2027
Prof. Dr. Ronny Seiger started as a new professor of Software Architecture at the Faculty of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen in April 2026.
We had a very interesting guided tour through the construction site of the Smart Mobility Lab of TU Dresden in May 2026. Thanks for the invitation and organization to Prof. Uwe Aßmann. We are looking forward to future robotics collaborations.
We have presented and discussed a paper on "Granularity Patterns for Programming Cyber-physical Systems with Business Processes" at the writers workshop of EuroPLoP 2026. It was a blast! Check the results of the very interesting focus group on "How Does AI Influence the Role of Software Architects?" organized by Uwe van Heesch, Olaf Zimmermann, Stefan Bente and Christian Kohls. The paper pre-print of "What Will Remain Human in Software Architecture? A Focus Group Report" is available on arxiv. A blog post by Dr. Olaf Zimmermann presents a nice travel report of EuroPLoP 2026.
We had some nice discussions and events, including a great tour through the Liebesbier brewery, at the Internet of Processes and Things workshop 2026 at the University of Bayreuth. Thanks for the organization to Prof. Agnes Koschmider and her team.
M.Sc. Tobias Arens has joined the Software Architecture group as research assistant in September 2026. We wish him all the best on his PhD journey.
We will present a paper on "Autonomous Mobile Robots with Business Process Management Systems at the Edge" at the main track of ECSA 2026 and a paper on "AI Assistance for Architectural Decision Making: Domain-Driven Context and Prompt Engineering" at the IDEA-ARCH workshop co-located with ECSA 2026.
The SWA group is co-organizing the BP-Meet-IoT 2026 workshop co-located with CBI/EDOC 2026. We will present and discuss a paper on "Emergent Behavior and Uncertainty in IoT-Enhanced Business Processes: Challenges and Future Directions" at the workshop and give a talk on "A Domain-specific Language and Architecture for Detecting Process Activities from Sensor Streams in IoT" at the Journal First track of EDOC.
We will present our previous work on "Software Architectures for Process-based Control of Cyber-physical Systems" at the OODACH meeting in Aachen in September 2026, organized by Prof. Dr. Horst Lichter and his team.
The new autumn semester started in October 2026 and we successfully started our new masters module on Software Architecture. We are very happy about the huge interest in this course and are looking forward to the group project work.
The group is organizing the EMISA 2027 workshop in Aachen. Sharpen your pencils and get that paper writing going!