Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ilka Philippow Dienstliche Adresse: D-98684 Ilmenau Postfach 100565 Tel: (3677) 69-2870 E-Mail: Ilka.Philippow(at)TU-Ilmenau.de

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Professional Background

Ilka Philippow is a full Professor for Process Informatics at the Ilmenau Technical University since 1992.
She is the head of the Institute of Computer Engineering.
Her previous position include: Dean of the Faculty for Informatics and Automation (1995-1998) and
Vice President of the Ilmenau Technical University (1998-2000).

In the eighties she was working in the field of software development for technical and embedded systems.
She received the PhD in Computer Science in 1981 and finished her Habilitation in 1989 at the Technical University of Ilmenau.
During the last decade she has achieved experience in requirements engineering and modeling for complex software systems
and tool supported software reuse and traceability concepts. She was leading involved in the development of the
modeling tool OTW that enhances the UML ability with the Object-Process-Model (OPM). OPM can be used for simulation
of software processes as well as for business processes.
She is working very close with industrial partners like Siemens AG in Munich, Daimler Research Center in Ulm,
Intershop AG Jena and others.

Research Topics

• Modeling of Dynamical Aspects in Object Oriented Systems
• Pattern Recognition in Legacy Systems, Domain Oriented Pattern Defintion and Application
• Modeling Variability for Object Oriented Product Lines, Feature Based Requirements Engineering and Software Design
• Reengineering of Architectures for Product Lines, Application of Patterns for Architecture Recovery and Restructuring
• Pattern based creation of User Interfaces