Prof. Dr. Christoph Knieke

Institute for Software and Systems Engineering

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by arrangement

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Vita

  • 2019: Habilitation at Clausthal University of Technology, topic: "Managed Evolution of Automotive Software Product Line Architectures"
  • 2011-2019: Managing Director of the research association "Institute for Applied Software Systems Engineering" (IPSSE) based in Goslar. Management of more than 20 industrial projects commissioned by Volkswagen AG with a total volume of over € 3 million.
  • 2012-2016: Coordinator of the cooperative doctoral program in electromobility with 20 scholarship holders
  • Since 2012: Teaching at the TU Clausthal
  • 2011: Doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. at the Institute for Programming and Reactive Systems at TU Braunschweig, topic: "Modeling and validation of executable requirement specifications with extended UML activity diagrams"
  • 2004: Degree in computer science at the TU Braunschweig, topic: "Scenario-based modeling and simulation in the automotive sector"

Research

  • Model-based software development
  • Software architectures
  • Software product lines
  • Software development for embedded systems

Teaching

  • Software Systems Engineering. Lecture and exercise (WS 2019/20, WS 2018/19, WS 2017/18)
  • Architecture and modeling of IT systems (summer semester 2019)
  • Requirements engineering and system design. Lecture and exercise (summer semester 2019, winter semester 2017/18)
  • Applied Data Science. Seminar (summer semester 2018)
  • Programming course. Lecture and exercise (SoSe 2018)

Publications (as of 2016)

  • Rüdiger Ehlers, Jörg Grieser, Christoph Knieke, Andreas Rausch, Mirco Schindler. Quality Assurance of Machine Learned Models by Integrating Domain Knowledge and Formal Verification. In: Proceedings Conference Software Engineering (SE 2019), Track "Explainable Software", 2019.
  • Daning Wang, Christoph Knieke, Sebastian Lawrenz, Andreas Rausch. Semantic Matching for the Configuration of Components in Cyber-physical Systems. In: Proceedings ASIM-Workshop Simulation of Technical Systems / Fundamentals and Methods in Modeling and Simulation, 2019, pp. 203-209.
  • Christoph Knieke, Sebastian Lawrenz, Magnus Fröhling, Daniel Goldmann, Andreas Rausch.Predictive and flexible Circular Economy approaches for highly integrated products and their materials as given in E-Mobility and ICT. In: International Workshop E-Mobility & Circular Economy, 2018.
  • Roman Henze, David Inkermann, Christoph Knieke, Lídia Montero, Andreas Pfadler, Andreas Rausch. ESREM: Emergent, Sustainable and Resilient Mobility for Smart Regions and Cities. In Editorial of Special Track ESREM, along with the Tenth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2018), February 18 - 22, 2018 - Barcelona, Spain. [Online]. Available: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2018/filesADAPTIVE18/ESREM_ADAPTIVE2018.pdf
  • Axel Grewe, Christoph Knieke, Marco Körner, Andreas Rausch, Mirco Schindler, Arthur Strasser, Martin Vogel. Automotive Software Architecture Evolution: Extracting, Designing and Managing Architecture Concepts. In: International Journal On Advances in Intelligent Systems, vol. 10, no. 3&4, 2017, pp. 203-222.
  • Christoph Knieke, Marco Körner, Andreas Rausch, Mirco Schindler, Arthur Strasser, Martin Vogel. Control Mechanisms for Managed Evolution of Automotive Software Product Line Architectures. In: International Journal On Advances in Software, vol. 10, no. 3&4, 2017, pp. 191-210.
  • Christoph Knieke, Marco Körner, Andreas Rausch, Mirco Schindler, Arthur Strasser, Martin Vogel. A Holistic Approach for Managed Evolution of Automotive Software Product Line Architectures. In Special Track: Managed Adaptive Automotive Product Line Development (MAAPL), along with ADAPTIVE 2017, IARIA XPS Press, 2017, pp. 43-52. Best Paper Award
  • Axel Grewe, Christoph Knieke, Marco Körner, Andreas Rausch, Mirco Schindler, Arthur Strasser, Martin Vogel. Automotive Software Systems Evolution: Planning and Evolving Product Line Architectures. In Special Track: Managed Adaptive Automotive Product Line Development (MAAPL), along with ADAPTIVE 2017, IARIA XPS Press, 2017, pp. 53-62.
  • Christoph Knieke, Andreas Rausch. MAAPL: Managed Adaptive Automotive Product Line Development. In Editorial of Special Track MAAPL, along with the Ninth International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE 2017), February 19 - 23, 2017 - Athens, Greece. [Online]. Available: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2017/filesADAPTIVE17/MAAPL_ADAPTIVE17.pdf
  • Benjamin Cool, Christoph Knieke, Andreas Rausch, Mirco Schindler, Arthur Strasser, Martin Vogel, Oliver Brox, Stefanie Jauns-Seyfried. From Product Architectures to a Managed Automotive Software Product Line Architecture. In: Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, ser. SAC'16. ACM, 2016, pp. 1350-1353.
  • Christoph Knieke, Michaela Huhn. Semantic Foundation and Validation of Live Activity Diagrams. In: Nordic Journal of Computing, vol. 15, no. 2, 2015, pp. 112-140.
  • Arthur Strasser, Benjamin Cool, Christoph Gernert, Christoph Knieke, Marco Körner, Dirk Niebuhr, Henrik Peters, Andreas Rausch, Oliver Brox, Stefanie Jauns-Seyfried, Hanno Jelden, Stefan Klie, Michael Krämer. Mastering Erosion of Software Architectures in Automotive Software Product Lines. In: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2014), ser. LNCS, vol. 8327. Springer, 2014, pp. 491-502.
  • Henrik Peters, Christoph Knieke, Oliver Brox, Stefanie Jauns-Seyfried, Michael Krämer, Andreas Schulze. A Test-driven Approach for Model-based Development of Powertrain Functions. In: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. 15th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2014, Springer-Verlag, 2014, pp. 294-301.
  • Andreas Rausch, Oliver Brox, Axel Grewe, Marcel Ibe, Stefanie Jauns-Seyfried, Christoph Knieke, Marco Körner, Steffen Küpper, Malte Mauritz, Henrik Peters, Arthur Strasser, Martin Vogel, Norbert Weiss. Managed and Continuous Evolution of Dependable Automotive Software Systems. In: Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Automotive Powertrain Control Systems, 2014, pp. 15-51.