Time to Say Goodbye!
The Software Construction (SWC) Teaching and Research Group was dissolved upon the retirement of Prof. Dr. Horst Lichter on August 1, 2026.
The SWC was founded on March 1, 1998, as part of the Chair of Software Engineering. On this website, you will find information about our main activities (publications, teaching, and research projects), as well as about the people who made up the SWC.
As with any project, there is still some work to be completed on the “SWC” project. Therefore, we will continue to publish updates here regarding the research projects that are still in progress.
But, there's good news, too!
Prof. Dr. Ronny Seiger is establishing the new Software Architecture teaching and research group (SWA), thereby establishing this important field — highly relevant to the software industry — within the Faculty of Computer Science.
News
We are organizing the QuASoQ 2026 workshop!
Paper accepted @ SOEA4EE 2026
We are organizing the OODACH Meeting
SOFTENG 2026 Best Paper Award
ENASE 2026 Best Paper Honorable Mention
Spotlights
Proto-ML IDE
Book "Software Engineering" (German)
QuASoQ
Vorkurs Informatik
coffee4j
EAdebts
SWC @ Youtube
Book "Studienarbeiten" (German)
Research areas
Recent publications
- Simon Hacks, Ada Slupczynski (2026)
Advancing Enterprise Architecture Debt: Insights from Work System Theory. In Rébecca Deneckère, Marite Kirikova, Janis Grabis (eds.) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research - 24th International Conference on Business Informatics Research, BIR 2025, Riga, Latvia, September 17-19, 2025, Proceedings, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 562, ISBN 978-3-032-04375-7, 107-123.
DOI PDF - Ada Slupczynski, Rob H. Bemthuis, Johanna Grahl, Aleksandra Pazova, Leila Mangonaux (2026)
A Factor-Based Criteria Framework for Multi-Criteria Legacy System Modernization. In Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing - EDOC 2026 Workshops (to be published), Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham. - Selin Coban, Patrick Chrestin, Horst Lichter (2026)
Knowledge Reuse in ML Prototyping: Insights from an Interview Study. In Tsuyoshi Nakajima (ed.) The Twelve International Conference on Advances and Trends in Software Engineering (SOFTENG 2026), Venice, Italy, May 24-28, IARIA Press, ISBN 978-1-68558-398-9, 1-8. PDF - Ada Slupczynski (2026)
Toward a Holistic Enterprise Modernization Lifecycle - Comparison of Existing Processes and Frameworks. In Proceedings des 28. Workshop Software-Reengineering und -Evolution, GI, Bonn, Vol. 46, No. 2, 44-45. PDF - Ada Slupczynski, Beate Krauze, Simon Hacks (2026)
Advancing Enterprise Architecture Debt: A Work System TheoryPerspective on Modernization and Resilience. In Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly (CSIMQ), RTU Press, Riga, Latvia, Vol. 46, No. March/April 2026, ISSN 2255-9922, 67-96.
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