Best Ph.D. Thesis in Software Engineering
In September 2001 I received the award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis
in Software Engineering from the Ernst-Denert-Stiftung in conjunction with the
'Gesellschaft für Informatik' (GI) and the 'Stifterverband für die
Deutsche Wissenschaft'.
This thesis presents a new software technology allowing for a
strongly tool-supported development of tailored run-time platforms (small
embedded operating systems). It addresses in particular the question of how to
control the platform development process by application requirements. The proposed
generative approach is based on the concept of reusable generic software
components, the use of generator techniques to customize these components, and
the Design Space technique to semi-formally capture favorable design choices.
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