Cross-discipline modeling and its contribution to automation

• Birgit Vogel-Heuser

  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Birgit Vogel-Heuser heads the Institute of Automation and Information Systems at the Technische Universität München and coordinates the Collaborative Research Center SFB 768 Managing cycles in innovation processes – integrated development of product-service systems based on technical products. She researches on cross-discipline aspects of modeling in automation.

  Technische Universität München, Lehrstuhl für Automatisierung und Informationssysteme, Boltzmannstr. 15, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany

  and Stefan Biffl

  Prof. Dr. Stefan Biffl is an associate professor at the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at Technische Universität Wien and head of the Christian Doppler Research Laboratory “Software Engineering Integration for Flexible Automation Systems”. His research interests include the semantic integration of heterogenoues models in the multi-disciplinary engineering of industrial production systems.

  TU Wien – Institut für Softwaretechnik und Interaktive Systeme, Favoritenstr. 9/188, 1040 Wien, Austria