Jörg Heihoff-Schwede received his doctorate for the topic "Specification technique for the analysis, design and evaluation of engineering IT architectures" under Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roman Dumitrescu. Congratulations!
Summary:
Technical systems and their environment are changing fundamentally and their complexity is increasing. This makes it necessary to adapt the engineering of these systems to this situation. In many enterprises, approaches such as model-based systems engineering require extensive changes in processes, methods, models and IT tools in engineering. The processes, methods and models often have to be considered as a whole in order to derive consistent requirements for the IT architecture. These often result in a complex solution space with a variety of IT tools and interfaces, whereas the fulfilment of requirements of the different solution variants can differ widely. Due to many dependencies, this not only makes it difficult to form the solution variants, but also to evaluate them. Holistic and coherent models of the processes, methods, models and IT tools of engineering can help to support these tasks systematically and effectively.
The goal of this thesis is a specification technique for the analysis, design and evaluation of engineering IT architectures. In essence, it consists of a language concept, which defines views, a modelling language and the interconnection of the model elements. A process model guides the user and, in combination with a tool support, allows the practical application. An industrial example from agricultural engineering demonstrates the use of the specification technique.
