A significant challenge within university education, especially with regard to the teaching of
highly theoretical topics like requirements engineering, is to maintain students' interest and …

Software-intensive cyber-physical systems (CPS) perform essential tasks such as controlling
automated production processes in industrial production plants. The required levels of …

The use of models in requirements engineering (RE) for software-intensive embedded
systems is considered beneficial. The main advantages of requirements models as …

While software refactoring is considered important to manage software complexity, it is often
perceived as difficult and risky by software developers and thus neglected in practice. In this …

Students and practitioners who want to learn about Requirements Engineering and take the
certification exam can use this handbook as a companion book to training courses offered …

Uncertainty is a major issue for system designers in developing an adaptive system,
especially when defining adaptation requirements. The design-time requirement becomes …

The development of software‐intensive technical systems involves several engineering
disciplines like mechanical, electrical, control, and particularly software engineering. Model …

When developing cyber‐physical systems (CPS), the context is of vital importance. CPS
interact with the world not only through sensing the environment and acting upon it (like …

When developing embedded systems, the context is of vital importance as embedded
systems interact with the context through sensing and actuation. There is a multitude of …

Cyber-physical systems that interact with each other and form groups to achieve joint goals,
are referred to as collaborative cyber-physical systems. They are exposed to highly dynamic …