Research Spotlight

Value-Based Requirements Prioritization

The value of software products can have many different manifestations that often go far beyond pure functionality. For one thing, it can be about purely monetary value, but it can also be about expanding the company’s reach, improving customer loyalty, displacing competitors, or generating other additional benefits for the company or the user. Cost and Value Engineering is a promising approach for addressing such a value-centered perspective without losing sight of expenses.

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Failure Prediction based on Code Smells

We applied an artificial intelligence-based approach to train practicable models for a business environment that enables effective prediction of software faults based on code smells, number of code changes in a time period, number of authors involved and other metrics.

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Software Architecture Knowledge Sharing with the Architecture Knowledge Base (AKB)

The Architecture Knowledge Base (https://akb.se.jku.at/ ) supports software architecture knowledge sharing based on architecture profiles and decision models. A video illustrating knowledge sharing in the AKB is available at https://files.se.jku.at/f/4cdd3a64de104b349d75/ .

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Microservice Dashboard

A dashboard for microservice monitoring and management, which can be configured to stakeholder needs and which supports the integration of different backend systems.

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Department Overview

The Department of Business Informatics – Software Engineering was established in 1987 at the faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of Johannes Kepler University Linz. The department sees its mission in research and education in both Business Informatics and Software Engineering. Both fields are seen as interdisciplinary areas that must integrate technical, business management and social science contents.

The department conducts both application-oriented and basic research. Our research methods pursue an engineering-scientific approach; this means development from the exemplary, design-oriented and descriptive on to the fundamental, abstract and explanatory – in other words, from practice to theory.

We conduct the major share of our research and development projects in cooperation with other university and non-university research facilities and with companies. An important aspect of the strategic orientation of the department is its international networking with university and non-university research facilities and with partner companies.

Related Departments:  Department of Business Informatics - Communication Engineering, Department of Business Informatics - Data and Knowledge Engineering, Department of Business Informatics - Information Engineering