Press Releases from Fraunhofer IESE (14 total)
MetriKon 2009: Measurement for Software Professionals
An important date is coming up for all software developers, decision makers, and engineers in the IT domain: On 19 and 20 November 2009, the software metrics conference MetriKon 2009 will take place at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern for the third time already. This professional conference organized by the Deutschsprachige Anwendergruppe für Softwaremetrik und Aufwandschätzung e.V. (DASMA) will offer a comprehensive program of presentations…
Open House at Fraunhofer IESE
The two Kaiserslautern Fraunhofer Institutes for Experimental Software Engineering IESE and for Industrial Mathematics ITWM are a “Selected Landmark 2009” in the Germany-wide contest “Germany – Land of Ideas”. Following the official award ceremony on Wednesday, 28 October 2009, the two institutes will open their doors from 2 to 7 p.m. and are inviting the public to enjoy a varied program at the Fraunhofer Center on Trippstadter Straße.
The reason for…
Tomorrow’s Electric Vehicle - Fraunhofer IESE collaborates with Audi
As far as the German federal government is concerned, Germany will soon be one of the world leaders in the area of electric mobility. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will provide a total of 700 million euros to support this development. One of the projects funded in this context is the network project “ePerformance”, which was initiated by Audi and will be funded by the government with…
Fraunhofer IESE develops intelligent energy management
From Solar Cells to the Internet of Energy
Over the next few years, the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE will establish a future-oriented energy management concept with strategic investments of more than one million euros at its site in Kaiserslautern. Work will focus especially on high-performance, safe software systems for use in plants for decentralized power generation or for renewable energies. A research and demonstration facility, consisting of solar…
Fraunhofer Center in Kaiserslautern is “Selected Landmark 2009”
Following the success in 2008 of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in the Germany-wide contest “Germany – Land of Ideas”, the two Fraunhofer institutes in Kaiserslautern have now won this award jointly.
The award was given for the innovative conference “Digital Engineering for Commercial Vehicles”, which is accompanied by a technical exhibition. The conference focuses on the exchange of experience between researchers and users. It is part of…
German Center for Emergency Medicine and IT established
“One of the most important improvements in German emergency medical services is now rapidly taking shape”, says Dr. Thomas Luiz, until recently Medical Director for the Kaiserslautern Emergency Medical Services and since the 1st of January 2009 Medical Director of the German Center for Emergency Medicine and Information Technology DENIT at Fraunhofer IESE.
With DENIT, the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern is establishing a research and development…
SPES 2020: Innovation Alliance for Embedded Systems
The alliance project “Software Platform Embedded Systems 2020” – SPES 2020 for short– was initiated by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as a strategic funding project in the area of embedded systems. As partners of the consortium, the University of Kaiserslautern and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE will also execute important workpackages. During the project’s initial duration of three years, a total funding of…
Kaiserslautern chosen as site of Fraunhofer Innovation Cluster "Digital Commerci …
Trucks, trailers, farm machinery, tractors, construction machinery: The high-tech inner life of these motorized heavyweights is the focus of the new innovation cluster “Digital Commercial Vehicle Technology”, which is being opened today by the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the state government of Rheinland-Pfalz, and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with a ceremony held at the Fraunhofer Center in Kaiserslautern.
The goal of this research initiative is to create a…
Fraunhofer IESE Participating in European Open Source Quality Offensive
As one of eight consortium partners, Fraunhofer IESE provides support for the European project QualOSS – Quality of Open Source Software. Its subject is a quality evaluation system for Open Source software. It includes a methodology that has been exhaustively validated empirically, as well as appropriate tools for automated quality evaluation. The project has an overall volume of almost 3 million euros and is initially scheduled to run until 31…
Fraunhofer IESE participates in German-French Research Partnership
The joint computer science research between Germany and France is being intensified. Bilateral research has existed for years between six German and six French research institutions. Now, the German-French cooperation agreement recently signed in Nancy will help to improve coordination and lead to an expansion of the topics covered.
As soon as the agreement comes into effect, the 12 partner institutes will first form a steering committee. As one of…
Fraunhofer IESE leading European Assisted Living Consortium
In the context of the project Emergency Monitoring and Prevention (EMERGE) funded by the European Union, the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE together with other European partners is developing approaches and solutions to extend the time that elderly people can live a self-determined life in their own homes. The project started on 01 February 2007 and has a duration of 33 months.
Fraunhofer IESE is the main coordinator of…
Innovative offer for journalists during the World Cup in Kaiserslautern: Fraunho …
Kaiserslautern. The Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) and the Japanese company Ricoh Co. Ltd. in cooperation with the World Cup office of the city of Kaiserslautern will offer a special service to journalists during the World Cup: All registered press people will be able to send documents to a printer online, from their laptops – the system is called “Virtual Printer“. The system will direct the printing requests…
Prof. Dieter Rombach appointed to the scientific advisory group of the Australia …
Dieter Rombach, executive director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE and professor in the department of computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern, was appointed to the International Scientific Advisory Group (ISAG) of the Australian research consortium \"National Information and Communications Technologies Australia\" NICTA in April 2006. The consortium was founded in 2002 by the Australian government to provide application-oriented research in the area of information and…
Rhineland-Palatinate Innovation Award again goes to Fraunhofer IESE
One of the special research awards in the context of the Rhineland-Palatinate Innovation Contest has now been awarded for the second time to the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in Kaiserslautern. The award was given for the development of the software-based process SAVE (Software Architecture Visualization and Evaluation), which enables the analysis of software architectures with unprecedented speed and precision.
Hans-Artur Bauckhage, Minister for Economy, Transportation, Agriculture, and Viniculture…
