Soft­ware has become a fun­da­mental ena­bler for new fea­tures, func­tion­al­it­ies, sys­tems, ser­vices and pro­cesses in almost all areas of eco­nomic, tech­nical, sci­entific, social and cul­tural life. Our soci­ety is heav­ily depend­ent on soft­ware tech­no­lo­gies – suc­cess and com­pet­it­ive­ness in the global world are impossible without reli­able, effi­cient and trust­worthy soft­ware-based sys­tems. By con­cen­trat­ing on a hol­istic approach towards the devel­op­ment and oper­a­tion & main­ten­ance of soft­ware-based sys­tems, my research is aimed at design­ing and build­ing improved sys­tem engin­eer­ing tech­no­lo­gies for the bene­fit of sys­tem reli­ab­il­ity and trust­wor­thi­ness. By con­sid­er­ing soft­ware in its inter­play with its envir­on­ment (hard­ware, sensors, actu­at­ors, power, etc.), soft­ware-based sys­tems adher­ing to pre­de­ter­mined levels of secur­ity, safety, per­form­ance, and alike can be effi­ciently con­struc­ted and evolved. This involves con­struct­ive and ana­lytic approaches to sys­tem engin­eer­ing. Engin­eer­ing however should not focus on sys­tem design, devel­op­ment, and veri­fic­a­tion & val­id­a­tion only, but should spawn the whole sys­tem life­cycle incl. sys­tem oper­a­tion, main­ten­ance and evol­u­tion.

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