SEMCO is a research project in the field of software-intensive electronic systems in automotives. Our main objectives are efficient development processes in model-based software engineering. SEMCO was launched in May 2004 based on a grant from KK-Foundation.

Purpose of the project

The application context of SEMCO is the development of software-intensive systems in the automotive industry. Manufacturers and suppliers in the automotive industry of today are facing an increasing set of customer requirements, an increasing need of integration of different electronic components to build complex functionality, and increasing safety

requirements. This leads to a large variety of software components for dependable systems in automotives. Challenges in this field are (1) to store and reuse established patterns in such a way that they do not hamper the creativeness of the engineer (2) to manage the engineering solutions and patterns efficiently for different views. The purpose of this project is to develop methodologies and concepts that contribute to meet these challenges by applying semantic technologies in model-based software engineering.

 

Usage of pure::variants

Feature models are used in the SEMCO as a bridge between customer requirements and existing solutions. When evaluating tool support for SEMCO, the pure::variants tool was used as a native modelling tool for creating the feature models. The feature models are then utilized by our proposed approach of using semantic technologies.

 

Project Website

 

Project partners

• Autoliv
• Combitech Systems
• School of Engineering, Jönköping University
• Fraunhofer ISST
• KK-Foundation

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