TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schreiber, Marc
A1  - Kraft, Bodo
A1  - Zündorf, Albert
T1  - Metrics Driven Research Collaboration: Focusing on Common Project Goals Continuously
T2  - 39th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 20-28, 2017 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
N2  - Research collaborations provide opportunities for both practitioners and researchers: practitioners need solutions for difficult business challenges and researchers are looking for hard problems to solve and publish. Nevertheless, research collaborations carry the risk that practitioners focus on quick solutions too much and that researchers tackle theoretical problems, resulting in products which do not fulfill the project requirements.
In this paper we introduce an approach extending the ideas of agile and lean software development. It helps practitioners and researchers keep track of their common research collaboration goal: a scientifically enriched software product which fulfills the needs of the practitioner’s business model.
This approach gives first-class status to application-oriented metrics that measure progress and success of a research collaboration continuously. Those metrics are derived from the collaboration requirements and help to focus on a commonly defined goal.
An appropriate tool set evaluates and visualizes those metrics with minimal effort, and all participants will be pushed to focus on their tasks with appropriate effort. Thus project status, challenges and progress are transparent to all research collaboration members at any time.
Y1  - 2017
N1  - Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP).
ICSE2017
Vorabversion der Autoren
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TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sildatke, Michael
A1  - Karwanni, Hendrik
A1  - Kraft, Bodo
A1  - Zündorf, Albert
T1  - A distributed microservice architecture pattern for the automated generation of information extraction pipelines
JF  - SN Computer Science
N2  - Companies often build their businesses based on product information and therefore try to automate the process of information extraction (IE). Since the information source is usually heterogeneous and non-standardized, classic extract, transform, load techniques reach their limits. Hence, companies must implement the newest findings from research to tackle the challenges of process automation. They require a flexible and robust system that is extendable and ensures the optimal processing of the different document types. This paper provides a distributed microservice architecture pattern that enables the automated generation of IE pipelines. Since their optimal design is individual for each input document, the system ensures the ad-hoc generation of pipelines depending on specific document characteristics at runtime. Furthermore, it introduces the automated quality determination of each available pipeline and controls the integration of new microservices based on their impact on the business value. The introduced system enables fast prototyping of the newest approaches from research and supports companies in automating their IE processes. Based on the automated quality determination, it ensures that the generated pipelines always meet defined business requirements when they come into productive use.
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - Model-driven software engineering
KW  - Software and systems modeling
KW  - Enterprise information systems
KW  - Information extraction
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42979-023-02256-4
SN  - 2661-8907
N1  - Corresponding authors: Michael Sildatke, Hendrik Karwanni
IS  - 4, Article number: 833
PB  - Springer Singapore
CY  - Singapore
ER  -