Dr. Kai Brüssau

My main interest in research concerns scheduling in the manufactury industry and software engineering techniques like model-driven architectures and component-based software development (CBD), as well as Business Process Execution and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). I am interested in solving complex scheduling problems, which, for instance occur in the semi-conductor industry. Applying Evolutionary Algorithms and local search techniques on real world problems requires the improvement of the algorithms and the development of a capable model. In several projects the new algorithms and models are evaluated and it can be shown that the quality of planning (e.g. scheduling) can be significantly improved. Another research interest is Business Process Modelling with BPMN or EDC and Business Process Execution. Special attention is, therefore, given to the Business Process Execution Lanugage and service-oriented architectures.

Bachelor:

• Introduction to Information Systems for B.A. Students (GRWINF)
• Web Applications
• Modelling of Information Systems
• supervising term- and project papers as well as final degree theses

Master:

• Computational Planning
• Business Process Execution
• Business Process Management
• supervising term- and project papers as well as final degree theses

Past Lectures:

• J2EE: modelling and developing
• Object-Oriented Software Development with Java
• Object-Oriented Programming with VB.Net

My lectures are based on the theory of object-orientated software engineering and the programming with Java and Visual Basic.Net. apart from that, the lectures contain the theory of data modeling and fundamentals on programming an object-oriented database access layer as a bridge between the object-oriented programming language and the relational database. The course computer-based planning deals with solving commonly known problems of the industry with classical methods, Evolutionary Algorithms or Artificial Neural Networks.

Books:

Brüssau, Kai: Eclipse Web Tools Platform, entwicklerpress, 2008

Brüssau, Kai und Widder, Oliver: Eclipse - Die Plattform, Software&support-Verlag, 2. Ed., 2006

Brüssau, Kai und Widder, Oliver: Eclipse - Die Plattform, Software&support-Verlag, 2005

Brüssau, Kai: Evolutionäe Algorithmen zur simultanen Losgrößen- und Ablaufplanung, DUV, 2002

Published Papers:

Feinplanung für die Kunststoffgranulat-Produktion (mit Sebastian Friedrich und Stefan Voß), in: PPS Management (February 2008).

J2EE mit Eclipse: J2EE-Anwendungen mit Eclipse und Lomboz, in: Eclipse Special (2005).

Komponenten bei der Softwareerstellung. in: WISU - Das Wirtschaftsstudium 31 (2002), p.1215-1218