The Department of Computer Science 3 – Software Engineering (SE) at RWTH Aachen University defines, improves and industrially applies techniques, concepts, and methods for innovative and efficient development of software and software-intensive systems, such that high-quality products can be developed in a shorter period of time and with flexible integration of changing requirements.

The SE concentrates on innovative and practically useful topics within the discipline of developing complex business and software-intensive embedded systems on a sound scientific and engineering basis. In recent years software engineering has significantly extended and consolidated its portfolio of methods, techniques, and tools to support development of highly critical or functionally complex systems within predefined time and given budget while meeting the required quality. It is the mission of the Department of Computer Science 3 to transfer this knowledge and tools into industry as well as to customize them to project and company specific needs. Thus optimized use (and reuse) of given resources enables an efficient realization of given goals.

Within the scope of the work of the SE the following and related fields of research and technology transfer are of particular significance: model-based development, UML, Model Driven Architecture (MDA), software architecture, test development, evolution of models, architecture and software, agile methods, XP, modeling distributed systems, semantics, transformational software development, code generation.

RTHA is a university with experience in energy efficiency and ICT solutions. En each city, for each pilot and replication, there are a tandem of public partners and service providers, in this case RTHA will collaborate with the German group involved in the implementation and development of the Pilot B2 which will be located in the Centre for Infomatics at the Technical University of Braunschweig.