Florian Matthes holds the chair Software Engineering for Business Information Systems at the Technische Universität München. The current focus of his research is on enterprise architecture management,  social software and model-driven web application engineering. He is co-founder of four high-tech software and service providers (CoreMedia, infoAsset, 20six ,21publish) with more than 160 employees. Since 2003 he serves as dean of studies at the Faculty for Informatics of TU München.

Florian Matthes received his diploma degree in computer science 1988 from the Johann Wolfgang-Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. After graduating with a doctorate in computer science from the University of Hamburg in 1993, he went to the Digital Systems Research Center (now HP SRC Classic) in Palo Alto, USA, with a post-doc fellowship. He then was assistant professor at the University  of Hamburg where he contributed to a number of European and transatlantic research projects with a focus on persistent and mobile programming. From 1997 to 2002 he worked as a professor for computer science at the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg in the area of software architectures and programming models for cooperative information systems.

Presentation

Visualizing and Managing the Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems of Systems

Application landscapes in large enterprises consist of hundreds or thousands of highly connected semi-autonomous application systems which are designed, created, evolved, maintained, used and financed by people with diverse interests and sometimes incompatible educational background. We report on recent efforts in academia and industry to improve the long-term and strategic management of this core enterprise asset by improving the communication between these stakeholders. A key challenge is to develop models, visualizations, tools and management practices which simultaneously address social, technical and economic aspects in a balanced and pragmatic manner.

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