Manuel Wimmer

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Mail: wimmer@big.tuwien.ac.at
Phone: +43 1 58801 18829
Location: HG0219
Office hours: only by appointment

Short CV

Since March 2019, Manuel Wimmer is Full Professor and Head of the Department of Business Informatics – Software Engineering at JKU Linz, Austria.
Manuel Wimmer was assistant professor at the Business Informatics Group (BIG), TU Wien, Austria. He received his Ms and PhD degrees in business informatics from the TU Wien in 2005 and 2008, respectively. He is one of the prize winners of the Award of Excellence 2008 assigned by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research for his PhD thesis. In 2014, he received his Habilitation (venia docendi) in Informatics from the Vienna University of Technology.

In 2016 he was an August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professor in the Institute of Automation and Information Systems (AIS) at Technische Universität München, Germany. In 2015 he was guest professor in the Software Engineering Research Group at the Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. In 2011/2012 he was on leave as research associate at the University of Málaga (working with Prof. Antonio Vallecillo). He was funded by an Erwin Schrödinger scholarship granted by the Austrian FWF (Fonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung).

He is/was involved in several national and international projects dealing with the foundations and application of model engineering techniques for domains such as tool interoperability, legacy modeling tool modernization, model versioning and evolution, software reverse engineering and migration, Web engineering including social Web and semantic Web, and Cloud computing. More information on these projects can be found here.

Currently, he is leading the Christian Doppler Laboratoy on Model-Integrated Smart Production (CDL-MINT) which is running from 2017 to 2023. In this context, he is developing modeling approaches for smart production facilities, as well as techniques for the continuous evolution of such models based on production information gathered at runtime. He is also a founding member of the EU COST Action Multi-Paradigm Modeling for Cyber-Physical Systems (MPM4CPS) and the representative of TU Wien within the AutomationML society. Furthermore, he is participating in the NFR4MDD project, a multi-national empirical study on the integration status of Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) in Model-Driven Development (MDD) practices.

He is coauthor of the book Model-driven Software Engineering in Practice (Morgan & Claypool, 2012).

A complete list of scientific publications is provided here. Additionally, see also the entries in DBLP and Google Scholar.

Projects

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.

End-User Based Web Augmentation Models

by Manuel Wimmer

Immersed in social and mobile Web, users are expecting personalized browsing experiences, based on their needs, goals, and preferences. This may be complex since the users’ Web navigation usually implies several (related) Web applications.

End-User Driven Web Augmentation Models

by Manuel Wimmer

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.

A Generic White-Box Testing Framework for Model Transformations

by Dorian Leroy, Manuel Wimmer, Erwan Bousse

Model transformations are crucial for the success of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), comparable in role and importance to compilers for programming languages, allowing to transform models between languages and abstraction levels, e.

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.

Training the Next Generation of Experts in Scalable Low-Code Engineering Platforms

by Manuel Wimmer

EU project Term 01.01.2019 - 28.02.2019 Funding founded by EU, grant number 813884

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.

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.

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.

COMBINE – Concurrent Multi-Viewpoint Building Information Modeling

by Manuel Wimmer, Galina Paskaleva

The processes in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) and Facility Management (FM) industries are iterative – components are created, revised or discarded. There are many stakeholders with a multitude of domain-specific requirements and tools – for calculation, information visualisation and exchange, using a variety of standards (e.

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.

Christian Doppler Laboratory for Model-Integrated Smart Production

by Serap Kadam, Ulrike Pastner, Radek Sindelar, Manuel Wimmer, Alexandra Mazak, Bernhard Wally

Production systems are becoming more and more software-intensive, thus turning into cyber-physical production systems (CPPS). This is also highlighted and reflected by Industrie 4.0, which is seen as the next industrial revolution.

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.

Towards Systematic and Efficient Language Engineering for xDSMLs

by Dorian Leroy, Manuel Wimmer, Tanja Mayerhofer, Erwan Bousse

Domain-specific modeling languages are increasingly being developed to continuously leverage the domain-specific expertise of the various stakeholders involved in the development of complex software-intensive system as, for instance, found in the automation, production, and automotive domains.

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.

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, Konstantinos Anagnostou, Manuel Wimmer (2022). Towards Interoperable Metamodeling Platforms: The Case of Bridging ADOxx and EMF.

in: “Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 34th International Conference, CAiSE 2022, Leuven, Belgium, June 6-10, 2022, Proceedings”, issued by: Xavier Franch, Geert Poels, Frederik Gailly, Monique Snoeck; Springer, Switzerland, 2022, ISBN: 978-3-031-07472-1, 479 - 497.