evolutionknowledge based vision systemsdata analysis systemsrigorous methods in software engineeringpublicationscareeropen positionsdissertations and master thesescareer opportunitiesmaps & directions application oriented research company in the field of software partner for industry and scienceas one of the largest independent research centers in austria in the field of software software competence center hagenberg scch plays a harbinger role for software related technological research and development trends.software competence center hagenberg was founded by five departments of johannes kepler university linz prof. buchberger risc prof. pomberger institute for business informatics prof. klement institute for knowledge based mathematical systems ; fuzzy logic laboratory linz hagenberg prof. wagner faw institute for application oriented knowledge processing and prof. engl institute for industrial mathematics in july 1999 in the realm of the k plus competence programbecirovic mario f.rezaie s.ehsan chandra namit beer wolfgang ieee intelligent systems retrospect 21.09.2016 in early september the ieee organized for the 8th time a conference on intelligent systems . this year the conference took place in bulgaria and focused on the topics decision support systems neural networks soft computing data mining ontologies machine learning and artificial intelligence . new researcher for das team 19.09.2016 since september 1st dr. florian sobieczky reinforced the data analysis systems team . he studied mathematics and physics . he focuses his research on the topic predictive modeling . ffg talents trying their hands at research 07.09.2016 two high school students conducted research at software competence center hagenberg in the realm of the program talents internships for students funded by the austrian research promotion agency ffg and the austrian federal ministry for transportation innovation and technology . new magazine online discover it 01.09.2016 browse in the new scch magazine . in addition to facts and figures you will find also some exciting reports in this issue . technology outlook and megatrends digital society in the future 15.07.2016 at the 30th of september the 10th technology outlook will take place at eth zurich . the main topic will be the digitization . the scch is represented at that event by dr. klaus dieter schewe who will speak about industry 4.0 between reality and vision . for safety critical systems formal methods 07.07.2016 in medicine transportation fully automated trains aerospace and in energy production atomic power plants software errors can have severe consequences . the use of formal methods can help to prevent such bugs in advance . in our interview dr. christine natschl ger explains why formal methods will rise in importance in the future and why they continue to play a marginal role . finding the early warning point scch presented predictive analytics 21.06.2016 the automotive cluster upper austria organized the innovation workshop at magna in graz . the experts from the research focus data analysis systems das showed how predictive maintenance works and how the early warning point can be found . automatic solution available extract knowledge from software 15.06.2016 the experts at scch have developed a tool called eknows that enables automatic extraction and analysis of expertise directly from source code . rigorous methods experts met in linz abz 2016 08.06.2016 the 5th international conference on abz asm alloy b tla vdm and z methods took place in linz from may 23 to 27 2016 . the main focus of the conference was the cross fertilization of six related state based and machine based rigorous methods abstract state machines alloy b temporal logics of actions vienna development method and z. these methods share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems . about 65 researchers from all over the world attended this conference . learn more about big data success factor data analysis 31.05.2016 in modern enterprises a mass of data is available in many formats and qualities . an automated analysis of this data promises an increase of knowledge and thus the opportunity to optimize different systems . at the oagm conference best paper award 31.05.2016 bernhard moser and christian motz won the best paper award of the oagm aarp 2016 austrian association for pattern recognition . hagenberg business process modelling method new book 02.05.2016 this book presents a proposal for designing business process management bpm systems that comprise much more than just process modelling . based on a purified business process model and notation bpmn variant the authors present proposals for several important issues in bpm that have not been adequately considered in the bpmn 2.0 standard . it focusses on modality as well as actor and user interaction modelling and offers an enhanced communication concept . awarded with the e award software for disaster management 04.04.2016 host mr. dirk lukaschik ceo of t systems presented the winners of the e award 2016 . the submitted projects impressively showed the importance of digitization and how it affects all economic and living areas . this circumstance effects many companies but also the entire society says lukaschik . in order to line up for the digital transformation it organizations need completely new skills technologies and management approaches . world stage for networked industry meet the scch at the hannover messe 2016 01.04.2016 the hannover messe 2016 www.hannovermesse.de is the global hotspot for industry 4.0 . in april all the drivers of industrial digitization come together in hannover . under the motto integrated industry discover solutions technologies for digitization of factories and energy systems will be shown . as driver for the smart factory systems engineering 15.03.2016 the wide ranging discussion on industry 4.0 the smart factory has made it ever clearer that the digitization and so the modeling of products along with their manufacture will be core components of future production . this requires the use of models for more and more aspects of product development and production . 30 participants followed the invitation of the scch to this experts workshop at the beginning of march . evaluate the suitability of a formal method for your industrial project 20.01.2016 the quality of software and its development processes can be considerably enhanced by using formal engineering methods . formal methods can be introduced gradually in customisable ways with less effort for a start than many will assume . there exist many different methods each of which suitable for certain project types settings and quality goals . but how do you choose the right method for your company or project successful cooperation with windhager zentralheizung a graphical user interface for a cosy home 16.10.2015 together with central heating manufacturer windhager from seekirchen near salzburg a sae team led by mario winterer implemented the graphical user interface for windhager s new generation of solid fuel heating systems . this application allows both residents and service technicians comfortable access to heating and hot water functions.the gui framework qt where the sae team has extensive professional expertise has been chosen as base technology for the application.after months of intense development work the team was able to release the first modules into an intensive field testing phase . new process developed for measuring nanoparticles no nanoparticle shall evade us 14.07.2015 in the realm of the project nanoparticle tracking funded by the austrian research promotion agency researchers at software competence center hagenberg scch have succeeded in significantly improving the analysis of nanoparticle samples . research success in advanced computing tackling the software crisis 14.07.2015 following on from the highly successful eu paraphrase project the university of st andrews has obtained substantial further funding from the europeon union under the horizon 2020 programme to study advanced computing . the 3.5 m euro rephrase project is coordinated by professor kevin hammond of the university of st andrews and brings together 8 leading academic and industry partners from the uk austria italy spain hungary and israel . it aims to tackle one of the most pressing problems in computer science how to produce effective software for emerging parallel computer platforms that promise significantly increased performance at significantly reduced cost and energy usage . internship jobs for students in july 11.06.2015 scch offers an interesting summer job for students . the requirements for the internship are interest in scientific subjects curiosity and good programming skills in java . conference for it innovation imagine 2015 11.06.2015 imagine is a conference series on information and communication technology ict . it takes place annually . imagine brings together the world of ict in austria and shows the excellence in research development and applications with a look into the future . so the imagine also serves always as a radar for the ict of the future research funding program of bmvit . as part of the imagine dr. josef pichler will present the project interface designer within the framework of industry 4.0 . new issue start it online 10.06.2015 the main topic of the current issue of the scch magazine is the start of the new comet phase . at the beginning of 2015 the scch started in the new comet phase . find out more about the planned projects in this issue . new member digital networked data 20.05.2015 since january 2015 dr. bernhard freudenthaler is a new member of the board of dnd . to the scch running team congratulations 20.05.2015 we congratulate our running team to a great performance at the linz marathon . internship in july 2015 get in touch with research 20.05.2015 scch offers an interesting internship in the field of software analytics and evolution . required is a good knowledge in java programming . within the framework of bits of tomorrow smes and big data 20.05.2015 for small and medium enterprises the question arises how much effort they can drive sensibly to systematically develop their data . to evaluate them and to make them productive in the sense of the company . the questions are many and varied what is big data for small and medium sized businesses which areas of application have already proved that could be developed where are the problems and where are the solutions refactoring parallel heterogeneous applications new project rephrase 29.04.2015 the rephrase project aims to produce new software engineering tools techniques and methodologies for developing data intensive applications in c targeting heterogeneous multicore manycore systems that combine cpus and gpus into a coherent parallel platform . project paraphrase advanced computing research boosts productivity and performance 28.04.2015 a world leading team of academic researchers and industrial experts from across europe are celebrating the conclusion of a four year research collaboration tackling the challenges posed by the fastest and most powerful computing systems on the planet.the 4.2 m paraphrase project brought together academic and industrial experts from across europe to improve the programmability and performance of modern parallel computing technologies . wins eaward software competence center hagenberg 26.02.2015 on 28 . january 2015 the winners of the business award eaward were crowned . a large awards ceremony in the t center in vienna honored especially economical customer friendly and innovative it projects from austria . extracting information from motion patterns wide ranging applications for motion analysis 23.02.2015 automated motion analysis is an innovative technology that extracts information from motion patterns in objects or persons and processes such information using special mathematical methods . new developments in sensor technology and greater availability of computing power enables the analysis and optimization of ever more complex motion problems in industry sports and medicine e.g. motion analysis of stomach cancer cells for the purpose of precise diagnosis and therapy . at software quality days best paper award 23.02.2015 our contribution improving manual change impact analysis with tool support a study in an industrial project was awarded in the category best paper for industrial experience . a research project delivers valuable knowledge especially for small and medium sized it companies . minimize risk & improve quality 06.02.2015 an innovative research project is currently being conducted across province boundaries . the institute for computer science of the university of innsbruck software competence center hagenberg gmbh o and five companies are exploring smart testing . the