Author: Paul E. McMahon

Prof. Dr. Michael Goedicke is head of the working group Specification of Software Systems at the University of Duisburg-Essen. He is vice president of the GI (German National Association for Computer Science), chair of the Technical Assembly of the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing), and longtimememberand steering committee chair of the IEEE/ACM conference series Automated Software Engineering. His research interests include, among others, software engineering methods, technical specification and realization of software systems, and software architecture and modeling. He is also known for his work in views and viewpoints in software engineering and has quite a track record in software architecture. He has been involved in SEMAT activities nearly from the start, and assisted in the standardization process of Essence—especially the language track.