With ARMOR, the itemis AG again started a new cooperation: the itemis branch in Leipzig is joined by the Institute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) of the University of Leipzig and the Intershop Communications AG, a leading provider for solutions in e-commerce, in developing an overall concept to manage program parts, so called artefacts.

The research project is running until November 2011 and is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Research & Development in the form of the support program “IKT 2020 – Forschung für Innovation (Research for Innovation)”. The technology partners itemis AG and InfAI design a Model-Repository and build a prototype as solution based on “Eclipse”, the world's leading Open-Source-Platform for speciality tools. By opening it as an Open-Source-Project based on “Eclipse”, external interested parties can also integrate the development results without paying license fees and have active influence on the further development of AMOR.

Within the framework of the research project individual adaption in software engineering (indapta), a modelling tool is being developed that supplies modelling languages that allow customers to be actively included in the software development process. Based on domain-specific software models developed in this way, fragments of the software code to be created are automatically generated according to the recommendations of the MDA.

In the research project  MDA for Embedded Systems, the three project participants under the leadership of itemis AG examine the use and combination of MDSD methods on the one hand and model-driven methods from the embedded environment on the other. The research focuses on Open Source development tools and first and foremost, Eclipse.

The objective of the Q-ImPrESS project is to improve the flexibility of software systems. A special focus is the quality-conscious evolution of existing legacy systems, the restructuring of which to service-oriented systems is supported. The project will integrate the model-driven prediction of various quality characteristics such as performance, reliability and serviceability in order to identify the effects of important draft decisions in advance. The results should significantly reduce costs and minimize risks in the development and evolution of service-oriented software systems. As a medium-sized, focused research project of the European Community in the area of information and communications technolgy, Q-ImPrESS is made up of eight partners from five European countries considered to be the market and technological leaders.

The goal of the project SEMICS (Smart Electronic Maritime Information- and Communication System) is the development and implementation of an integrated maritime information and communication system on board of heavy lift ships. The system should contribute in reducing processes, to simplify and digitize so that the administrative effort of the officers of Beluga Shipping GmbH gets reduced up to three to four hours everyday. Within the powerful consortiums of economy and research, itemis have been given the task to provide the individual software development tools for the construction of the new system.

VIRES is about an integrated specification technique for product and production system for mechatronic products. itemis will develop an Eclipse-based Modeling tool for the specification technique and contribute it to Eclipse. The models will describe the product, the production systems and dependencies between them. It will also contain information about costs and robustness needed for cost and robustness analysis. As a result, it will be easier to measure the impact of changes regarding for example costs and robustness. Partners are the universities of Paderborn and Karlsruhe, the Heinz-Nixdorf-Institute, and Wincor Nixdorf, Behr, Seuffer and OCÉ as industry partners.

In WieMod we will develop an approach to increase the reusability of simulation models for the aerospace industry. Today these models are expressed with tools like Matlab/Simulink, Modelica or Ascet. To make them reusable, it is necessary to support similarity analysis. Therefor you need a unified metamodel for the core information, a repository to store them and a query interface. Further more transformations from the original model format are needed. The model interchange format standard SMP2 will be used as a starting point. The Eclipse project OSEE is a candidate for the repository. Partners are Deutsches Luft- und Raumfahrtzentrum Braunschweig (DLR), University of Stuttgart and Astro Feinwerktechnik.