Forschung

Database Technology
- Data management on modern hardware
  - Co-processor-accelerated query optimization
  - Efficient algorithms for query (co-)processing on heterogeneous hardware (e.g., GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi, NUMA Systems)
  - Genome data analysis using main-memory databases
  - Multi-dimensional index structures for main-memory databases
- Graph database management systems
- Large-scale and cloud data management
  - NoSQL databases
  - Transaction management in the cloud
  - Data integrity in the cloud
  - Parallel entity resolution
  - Self-tuning for cloud storage clusters

Feature-Oriented Software Development (FOSD)
- Product-line configuration recommender systems
- Prioritization for software product line testing
- Migration of cloned product variants to a software product line
- Variability-aware refactoring
- Variability-aware code smells
- Formal specification and verification of software product lines
- Analysis of variability models
- Multi software product lines

Variability in Embedded Systems / Heterogenous Hardware
- Composition and adaptation of software product lines at runtime
- Syntactical and semanticle interoperability in heterogeneous (embedded) systems
- Data management in embedded systems and sensor networks