Gerti Kappel

O.Univ.Prof.in Dipl.-Ing.in Mag.a Dr.in techn.

Teaching
Offered Topics
Projects
Publications

Mail: gerti@big.tuwien.ac.at
Phone: +43 1 58801 18870
Location: HC0215
Office hours: only by appointment via e-mail

Gerti Kappel is full professor at the Institute of Information Systems Engineering at TU Wien, chairing the Business Informatics Group. Prior to that, from 1993 to 2001, she was a full professor of computer science (database systems) and head of the Department of Information Systems at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

She received the MSc and PhD degrees in computer science and business informatics from University of Vienna and TU Wien in 1984 and 1987, respectively. From 1987 to 1989 she was a visiting researcher with an FWF Schroedinger scholarship at Centre Universitaire d’Informatique, Geneva, Switzerland.

From 2004 to 2007, she acted as dean of studies for Business Informatics. Moreover, from 2003 to 2007, she was head of the internationally renowned Women’s Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies ( www.wit.at) paving theway for several ongoing female support programs at university level. From 2011 to 2015, she was head (”Sprecher”) of the Doctoral College “Adaptive Distributed Systems”, and from 2015 to 2018, she has been a faculty member in the Doctoral College „Cyber-Physical Production Systems“, both funded by TU Wien. From 2014 to 2017, she was a board member of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). From 2016 to 2019, she was a member of the dean’s team of the Faculty of Informatics responsible for research, diversity, and financial affairs. Since the beginning of 2020 she acts as the dean of the Faculty of Informatics at TU Wien.

Her current research interests include Model Engineering, Web Engineering, and Process Engineering, with a special emphasis on cyber-physical production systems. Striving for the unity of research and teaching, she co-authored and co-edited among others „UML@Work“ (dpunkt.verlag, 3rd ed, 2005), „UML@Classroom“ (Springer, 2015), and „Web Engineering“ (Wiley, 2006).

Teaching

No.	Type	Title	Lecturers
188952	VU	Advanced Model Engineering	Aleksandar Gavric, Dominik Bork, Gerti Kappel, Haydar Metin
188978	VU	IT Governance	Christian Huemer, Gerti Kappel, Monika Malinova Mandelburger
188446	SE	Research Seminar	Christian Huemer, Dominik Bork, Gerti Kappel, Henderik Proper
188512	SE	Literature Seminar for PhD Students	Christian Huemer, Dominik Bork, Gerti Kappel, Henderik Proper
194145	PR	Project in Computer Science 1	Christian Huemer, Gerti Kappel, Henderik Proper
188953	SE	Advanced Model Engineering	Aleksandar Gavric, Dominik Bork, Gerti Kappel, Haydar Metin, Syed Juned Ali
180779	SE	Seminar for Master Students in Business Informatics	Christian Huemer, Gerti Kappel, Marion Scholz

Offered Topics

Gerti Kappel, Galina Paskaleva

Entwicklung von Datenzugriffsmechanismen für CAD

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has a twofold meaning. On the one hand, it describes the exchange of geometry data enriched by meta-information. On the other hand, it stands for the entire process of interdisciplinary planning of a building – with the simultaneous engagement of all stakeholders in the development of a common model containing all relevant information.

Projects

An Enabler for Real-time Business Intelligence

by Gerti Kappel

The dynamic business environment of many organizations require to monitor their business, IT and organizational processes in real-time in order to proactively respond to exceptions and to take advantage of time-sensitive business opportunities.

Vienna Informatics Living Lab

by Philipp Prinzinger, Gerti Kappel

Mit dem Vienna Informatics Living Lab macht die Fakultät für Informatik einen Brückenschlag zu Schulen und baut ab Herbst 2018 ein systematisches Angebot auf: Schulklassen und Lehrpersonen können an kostenfreien, didaktisch abgestimmten Workshops zu aktuellen und vielfältigen Informatikthemen teilnehmen.

Women’s Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies

by Ulrike Pastner, Marion Murzek, Gerti Kappel

WIT stands for Women’s Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies (WIT), and is the only programme of its kind in Austria. WIT is a five-year programme and gets financed by the Austrian government and the European Union.

V-Code Hot Code Reload Extended

by Stefan Draskovits, Christoph Korath, Manuel Wimmer, Gerti Kappel

Das Ziel des Projektes ist es, ein Konzept zur partiellen Aktualisierung von QML (Qt Modeling Language) Programmen zur Laufzeit auszuarbeiten, welches es ermöglicht, QML Programminstanzen während der Laufzeit entsprechend der Programmänderungen zu aktualisieren.

A Framework for Model Transformations on Petri Nets in Color

by Johannes Schönböck, Manuel Wimmer, Gerti Kappel

Model transformations play an important role in software engineering in general and in the area of model-driven engineering in particular, representing the key mechanisms for model translations (e.g., translating an ER model into a UML class model), model augmentations (e.

Creating a Data Mart for Floating Car Data

by Petra Kaufmann, Gerti Kappel

With the number of vehicles, both private and commercial, in urban areas steadily increasing, accurate traffic information becomes an increasingly important commodity A change in transport policy, e.g., increased use of public transport and efficient inter-modal transport, will only have a medium to long-term effect on improving the traffic situations in inner-city areas.

TheHiddenU – A Social Nexus for Privacy-Assured Personalisation Brokerage

by Manuel Wimmer, Martin Wischenbart, Gerti Kappel

Social networks on the Web have seen enormous growth over the past few years reaching now truly widespread adoption. Since every social network is focused on serving specific human needs, social networkers are present in a number of different networks, leading to scattered social content.

Model Execution based on fUML

by Philip Langer, Stefan Mijatov, Manuel Wimmer, Tanja Mayerhofer, Gerti Kappel

In model-driven development models are considered as the key artifacts and, as a result, the success of the whole development process relies on these models and their quality. Consequently, there is an urgent need for adequate methods to ensure high quality of models.

Multi-Paradigm Modelling for Cyber-Physical Systems

by Manuel Wimmer, Tanja Mayerhofer, Gerti Kappel

Truly complex, designed systems, known as Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), are emerging that integrate physical, software, and network aspects. To date, no unifying theory nor systematic design methods, techniques and tools exist for such systems.

A Semantic Infrastructure for Model-based Tool Integration

by Martina Seidl, Manuel Wimmer, Michael Strommer, Horst Kargl, Gerti Kappel

With the rise of model-driven software development, more and more development tasks are being performed on models. A rich variety of modeling tools is available supporting different tasks, such as model creation, model simulation, model checking, and code generation.

Model-Based Adaptation Engineering in Automation Systems Engineering

by Emanuel Mätzler, Luca Berardinelli, Manuel Wimmer, Patrick Neubauer, Gerti Kappel

Model-Based Adaptation Engineering (MAE) in Automation Systems Engineering (ASE) (MAE4ASE) is a module of the Christian Doppler Laboratory on Software Engineering Integration for Flexible Automation Systems. It addresses the upcoming need of ASE to raise the level of flexibility of automation systems even further in order to better react to changing environments.

InteGra 4.0 - Horizontal and Vertical Interface Integration 4.0

by Manuel Wimmer, Alexandra Mazak, Tanja Mayerhofer, Bernhard Wally, Christian Huemer, Gerti Kappel

InteGra 4.0 focuses on the horizontal integration throughout value chains as well as on the vertical integration of networked production systems as identified by the German working committee for Industrie 4.

Formalizing and Managing Evolution in Model-Driven Engineering

by Martina Seidl, Sebastian Gabmeyer, Petra Kaufmann, Gerti Kappel

Like traditional program code, software models are not resistant to change, but evolve over time by undergoing continuous extensions, corrections, and modifications. In model-driven engineering (MDE), evolution is multidimensional leading to the model management tasks of synchronization, versioning, and co-evolution.

Doctoral College “Cyber Physical Production Systems”

by Sabine Wolny, Manuel Wimmer, Gerti Kappel

The Doctoral College „Cyber-Physical Production Systems“ aims at further positioning TU Wien with TUWin4.0 as the leading research institute in Austria in this domain and to help to position the university as one of the highest ranked European research institutes in this highly relevant area.

Doctoral College “Adaptive Distributed Systems”

by Tanja Mayerhofer, Gerti Kappel

The Doctoral College „Adaptive Distributed Systems“ intends to work on the challenging questions of today’s distributed computer systems by bringing together experts from various fields of computer science, mathematics and statistics, thus, fostering a multidisciplinary approach.

Innovationslehrgang zur Gestaltung der Digitalen Transformation in der Produktentwicklung und Produktion (DigiTrans 4.0)

by Sabine Wolny, Polina Patsuk-Bösch, Clemens Proyer, Manuel Wimmer, Alexandra Mazak, Christian Huemer, Gerti Kappel

Qualifizierungsziel ist es, die Unternehmen in ihrer Gesamtheit in das Zeitalter von Industrie 4.0 zu führen. Dazu haben sich die Lehrenden fakultätsübergreifend vernetzt, um im Sinne einer Integration von Fachabteilung, Business-IT und Produktions-IT und zur Vernetzung sämtlicher Informationsströme entlang der Wertschöpfungskette unterrichten zu können.

Collaborative Configuration Systems Integration and Modeling

by Philip Langer, Manuel Wimmer, Simon Steyskal, Robert Bill, Gerti Kappel

The goal of the project COSIMO is to build up a portfolio configurator platform for leveraging tool integration for railway automation systems and, in general, for production systems at Siemens. The core of this framework comprehensively bases on model-driven concepts and semantic system’s techniques.

Model-driven Development and Evolution of Semantic Infrastructures

by Philip Langer, Manuel Wimmer, Tanja Mayerhofer, Gerti Kappel

The main goal of DARWIN is to provide an extensible framework based on well-established conceptual modeling languages and model-driven engineering techniques enabling developers to entirely develop and evolve SIs at an appropriate level of abstraction.

Configuration and Operation data optimization using Data Analytics

by Manuel Wimmer, Alexandra Mazak, Gerti Kappel

Die industrienahe Dissertation CODA adressiert innovative, wichtige Forschungsfragen um aus den Laufzeitdaten (Betriebsdaten) und den Entwicklungszeitdaten (Konfigurationsdaten) einer Anlage Optimierungen für Betrieb und Systemkonfiguration abzuleiten. Die Resultate von CODA sind neue Methoden und Algorithmen vorwiegend aus dem Bereich Data Analytics, die anhand von realen Daten aus dem Anwendungsgebiet Bahnautomatisierung evaluiert werden.

Adaptable Model Versioning

by Konrad Wieland, Martina Seidl, Petra Kaufmann, Philip Langer, Manuel Wimmer, Gerti Kappel

The development of complex software systems requires appropriate abstraction mechanisms in terms of model-driven engineering techniques (MDE) and proper support for allowing developers to work in parallel in terms of version control systems (VCS).

Advanced software-based seRvice provisioning and migraTIon of legacy SofTware

by Javier Troya, Alexander Bergmayr, Philip Langer, Martin Fleck, Manuel Wimmer, Tanja Mayerhofer, Alexandra Mazak, Patrick Neubauer, David Madner, Gerti Kappel

Successful software has to evolve to keep it compatible and up to date. Up to 90% of software cost is spent on maintenance and of this 75% is spent on the development of new features for staying competitive.

Admina.at goes Austria

by Gerti Kappel

Admina is the short female form of system administrator. The Admina.at project offered by the Women’s Postgraduate College for Internet Technologies provides a number of hands-on practical experience system administation workshops, created and held by women exclusively for women.

Kooperation im Rahmen des COMET-K1-Zentrums Digitale Produktion

by Manuel Wimmer, Christian Huemer, Gerti Kappel

The manufacturing processes of the future need to be highly flexible and dynamic in order to satisfy customer demands for, e.g., large series production, mass customization, or changing orders. The organisations are also changing and manufacturing companies are not only part of sequential, long-term supply chains, but also part of (potentially) extensive manufacturing networks which require agile collaboration between partners.

Hybrid Domain-specific Language User EXperience

by Victor Gabriel Dulca, Philip Langer, Manuel Wimmer, Gerti Kappel

HybriDLUX entwickelt neuartige Techniken und Werkzeuge zur hybriden, kollaborativen Modellierung und zum modellbasierten Debugging in hybriden Modellen, zwei Techniken, die als kritisch für die Einführung von modellbasierter Softwareentwicklung identifiziert wurden. Diese Techniken und Werkzeuge werden außerdem speziell für domänenspezifische Softwaresprachen, die von AVL im Anwendungsgebiet der Fahrzeugmess- und – prüftechnik evaluiert werden, implementiert und anhand einer erweiterten und verbesserten Version des im vorangegangenen DLUX Projekts entwickelten Evaluierungsrahmenwerks hinsichtlich Benutzerfreundlichkeit evaluiert.

IFC-Roundtrip und Plangrafiken

by Galina Paskaleva, Gerti Kappel

Das Forschungsprojekt betrifft zusammengefasst die Erarbeitung einer IFC-RoundTrip-Datenübertragungstechologie. Das Forschungsziel liegt insbesondere in der Entwicklung einer Lösung für den softwareübergreifenden Datenaustausch digitaler Gebäudemodelle mit dem Format IFC Industry Foundation Classes und die Ableitung der erforderlichen Plangrafiken.

CPS/IoT Ecosystem

by Manuel Wimmer, Tanja Mayerhofer, Bernhard Wally, Michael Schadler, Gerti Kappel

CPS/IoT Ecosystem is a joint initiative under „Hochschulraum-Strukturmittel (HRSM)“ national funding platform administered by Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) is a concept that unifies all computer driven systems interacting closely with their physical environment.

Publications

Dominik Bork, Andreas Fend, Dominik Scheffknecht, Gerti Kappel, Manuel Wimmer (2021). From In-Person to Distance Learning: Teaching Model-Driven Software Engineering in Remote Settings.

in: “2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C) - Educators Symposium Track”, issued by: ACM/IEEE; IEEE Xplore Digital Library, USA, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-6654-2484-4, 702 - 711.