My research interests include Software and Systems Engineering process improvement Model Quality Analysis and Improvement Value-based Software Engineering Empirical Software Engineering Collaboration in Software and Systems Engineering Software Architecture, in particular, Collective Intelligence Systems Software and Systems Engineering Process Improvement Requirements-Driven Knowledge Engineering for Software-Intensive Systems Engineering environment and engineering knowledge integration Engineering of Cyber-Physical Production Systems (Industry 4.0) Production automation systems simulation and test Application focus: systems for monitoring and coordination of engineering heterogeneous software-intensive systems.