In October 2005, the HPI started its Research School on "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering", a postgraduate school based on the model of the DFG (German Science Foundation) "Graduiertenkolleg".

Design and implementation of service-oriented architectures impose numerous research questions from the fields of software engineering, system analysis and modeling, adaptability, and application integration.

Service-Oriented Systems Engineering represents a symbiosis of best practices in object orientation, component-based development, distributed computing, and business process management. It provides integration of business and IT concerns.

"Service-Oriented Systems Engineering" denotes a current research topic in the field of IT-systems engineering with high potential in academic research as well as in industrial application. Supported by an internationally renowned grant, PhD students at our college participate in joint activities such as lectures, seminars, winter schools and workshops.

The Professors of the HPI with their research group are supporting pillars for our PhD school. With its interdisciplinary structure, the research college on "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering" interconnects the HPI research groups and fosters close and fruitful collaborations.

In context of the research college, the different groups at HPI work on the following topics:

• Service-Oriented Geovisualization Systems (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Döllner)
• Modeling and Verification of Self-Adaptive Service-Oriented Systems (Prof. Dr. Holger Giese)
• Tools and Methods for Software Engineering in Service-Oriented Systems (Prof. Dr. Robert Hirschfeld)
• Security Engineering of Service-Based IT-Systems (Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel)
• Service-oriented Information Integration (Prof. Dr. Felix Naumann)
• Evolutionary Transition of Enterprise Applications to Service-Orientation (Prof. Dr. h.c. Hasso Plattner)
• Operating System Abstractions for Service-Oriented Computing (Prof. Dr. Andreas Polze)
• Services Specification, Composition, and Enactment (Prof. Dr. Mathias Weske)
• Quantitative Evaluation and Optimization of Service-Oriented Systems (Prof. Dr. Werner Zorn)

The Research School annually advertises 7 Ph.D. positions and 3 Postdoc positions. Ph.D. positions are available starting October 1. Applications should arrive at Hasso-Plattner-Institut before August 15 of the same year. For further information, please go to the scholarship Web site of the Research School.

Coordination

Speaker of the Research School on "Service-Oriented Systems Engineering" is:

Prof. Dr. Andreas Polze
Operating Systems and Middleware Group
Hasso-Plattner-Institut for Softwaresystemtechnik
Postfach 900460
D-14440 Potsdam

andreas.polze (at) hpi.uni-potsdam.de
kolleg.hpi.uni-potsdam.de