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Student Thesis: Continuous Deployment

August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Announcement, Offene Themen, Research

Summary: Continuous deployment is the name of an engineering practice where a commit to a project’s code repository is put into production without any intermediate human intervention. It is the next step after continuous integration and it is all the rage in agile methods circles and for web applications. This (Studien/Diplom/Bachelor/Master) thesis reviews the current [...]

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Funding for Research Project “Reengineering Wikitext”

June 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Announcement, Research

The Bavaria California Technology Center has awared our group some funds to move forward with our “Reengineering Wikitext” project. Below please find a short research project summary (in German).

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Another Ferienakademie (in German): Mobil und Global. Kommunikationsformen im Wandel

June 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcement, Research, Teaching

Auch dieses Jahr möchten wir Sie wieder auf die vom 15.-17. Oktober 2010 stattfindende Ferienakademie in Tutzing aufmerksam machen und auf diesem Wege herzlich bitten, interessierte Studentinnen und junge Wissenschaftlerinnen über das vielseitige Angebot der Akademie im malerischen Ambiente des Tutzinger Schlosses am Starnberger See zu informieren. Die diesjährige Akademie trägt den Titel “Mobil und [...]

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The German Ph.D. System Explained in One Post

June 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Dissertationen, Research

In Germany, today (2010), primary and secondary education take 12 school years and when finished successfully, allow you to enter college. College provides three main degrees you can achieve, a Bachelor, a Master, and a Ph.D. At the University of Erlangen, the Bachelor degree typically takes three years and the Master degree takes an additional [...]

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Erlangen Computer Science Day / Tag der Informatik

March 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcement, Research, Teaching

Please join us for the Erlangen Computer Science Day (Tag der Informatik). More information (in German) to be found on the Tag der Informatik website. Prof. Riehle will give a main lecture, his “Antrittsvorlesung” that day.

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Dissertation on “Going Open Source” Case Study

March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcement, Dissertationen, Industry, Offene Stellen, Research

Update 2010-03-31: The company in question is WeWebU; read more about its open source strategy in their recent press release. Also, the company would like to hire the person described below directly, as an employee. A potential dissertation then has become a separate matter. If you are interested, please direct your resume directly to the [...]

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Open Source Best Practices Research February 2010

February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcement, Industry, Research

Prof. Riehle is currently in the Silicon Valley performing explorative interviews with local commercial open source firms. Goal of the research is to uncover best practices of such firms in the various business functions that make up a software firm. Currently, we are focussing on Marketing, Community, and Engineering management. Stay tuned and feel free [...]

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Current Bachelor/Diplom/Master-Theses Topics

February 5th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Diplomarbeiten, Offene Themen, Research, Teaching

Update 2010-06-19: Descriptions of the theses can now be found on StudOn. Check them out! (If you don’t see them, you are not logged in.) Topics crossed out below have been picked up by students already.   We just updated our set of open source theses topics. They cover technology, software process, legal/law, and business/economics. [...]

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Profile of Professorship

January 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Research, Teaching

We had to write a profile of the Professorship for Open Source Software. Please see below. (In German.) English translation here courtesy of Google Translate. Subject to change at any time. Summary Die Professur für Open-Source-Software führt angewandte Softwaretechnik-Forschung und -Lehre unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Open-Source-Software durch. Aufgrund der Eigenheiten von Open-Source-Software ist die Forschung [...]

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Open Source Research Opinion: Industry Decision Models

January 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Research

We will be participating in the Computing Community Consortium’s workshop on the future of open source research at UC Irvine. The organizers asked participants to provide opinions on three research areas that warrant further attention. Here is our third one: 3. Decision Models for Industry Participation in Community Open Source Community open source is open [...]

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