12/11/2023 | The project KI Data Tooling ends on December 31, 2023. On December 5 and 6, 2023 - the project representatives, partners and guests met at the BMW Welt in Munich for the final event. With the present results, the project has successfully contributed to significantly advancing the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of autonomous driving. A comprehensive data kit now facilitates the training and validation of AI functions and opens up new possibilities for intelligent mobility solutions.

11/23/2023 | Public administration in Germany is facing significant challenges, as the digital transformation is intensifying the pressure to make progress in the digitalization of administrative services. At the same time, citizens' expectations of easily accessible and uncomplicated services are increasing. The short study "Government as a Platform in Germany" recently published by the National E-Government Competence Center (NEGZ) provides in-depth approaches to solutions. The authors of the study are the two fortiss researchers Peter Kuhn and Dian Balta from the Platform Engineering competence field.

10/27/2023 | Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have long been part of social and economic life in Germany. With chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google Bard, Generative AI (GenAI) has recently moved into the public spotlight. But how can SMEs use these and other AI solutions? With this focus, the annual "AI for SMEs" conference was held on October 26 jointly with the IHK für München und Oberbayern (Chamber of Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria), the applied AI initiative and fortiss.

10/13/2023 | With a successful closing event, the Foundations for Continuous Engineering of Trustworthy Autonomy (FOCETA) successfully completed the EU-funded research project of the same name in Grenoble. On October 11, the results were presented to the European Commission project officer and external experts in the final review meeting, while a general public audience was able to follow live demonstrations and a scientific workshop highlighting key achievements.

09/13/2023 | After three years, the fortiss research project Coding Public Value (CPV) was successfully completed in summer 2023. An interdisciplinary project team analyzed the implementation of legal, political and user-oriented requirements for software systems used by public media institutions. The project was funded by the Bavarian Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) and as a result provides a public interest-oriented guideline. It includes suitable approaches and methods for software development.

09/13/2023 | Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Daniel Mendez (Head of the Competence Field Requirements Engineering) fortiss scientist Oleksandr Kosenkov worked on the research project Coding Public Value (CPV) for more than three years and successfully completed it in summer. In the interview, he describes why the project makes an important contribution to the public good.

07/19/2023 | The importance of software engineering and artificial intelligence (AI) for companies in all sectors is steadily increasing. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need to master these skills to remain successful and competitive and fully exploit their innovative power. Bavaria is ideal here as an excellent research and industrial location.

06/14/2023 | The 15th edition of the renowned Software Quality Days took place for the first time in Munich from May 23-25, 2023 and was successfully accompanied by fortiss, the research institute of the Free State of Bavaria for software-intensive systems, as official partner, part of the Steering Committee and coordinator of the Scientific Track. More than 350 participants, 60 top-class speakers and 24 exhibitors experienced three days of intensive knowledge exchange, networking and education.

05/22/2023 | fortiss and its partners have successfully completed the project SpesML (SysML Workbench for the SPES Methodology), a multi-year effort aimed at leveraging the benefits of the scientifically founded SPES (Software Platform Embedded Systems) engineering methodology for software-intensive systems for the industrial SysML modeling language. Launched in 2021, the SpesML project was a collaborative effort between fortiss and several industry partners, including Foqee, Qualicen, qwitto, Schaeffler, Siemens, Siemens Healthineers and Validas, academic partners, including RWTH Aachen, TU Munich and University of Cologne and associated partners like Airbus, BMW and GfSE (Gesellschaft für Systems Engineering). The newly created modeling language enables engineers to address a key challenge in software development: Ensuring the correct and efficient modeling, development, and maintenance of complex software-intensive systems using SysML – from small embedded systems to large-scale distributed systems.