Autor: Helmut Krcmar

Prof. Dr. Helmut Krcmar holds the Chair for Information Systems in the Department of Informatics at TU München (TUM) since 2002, with a joint appointment to TUM Business School. He is also Deputy Director of the Center for Doctoral Studies in Informatics and its Applications as well as Academic Director of the SAP University Competence Center @ TUM. Prof. Dr. Ralf Reussner heads the Chair of Software Design and Quality (SDQ) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). He is also speaker of the executive board of the FZI – Forschungszentrum Informatik in Karlsruhe. He was founder and first head the GI Chapter on Software Architecture. His research interests include, among others, component-based software engineering, quality attributes of software, software design, and software architectures. Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rumpe holds the Chair of Software Engineering at RWTH Aachen University since 2009. From 2003 to 2008 he headed the Institute for Software Systems Engineering at Braunschweig University of Technology. He is head of the German GI Chapter on Modeling and co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Software and Systems Modeling (So Sy M) journal with Springer. His main interests are the development and use of models for software and complex, networked systems.