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most citedVEDLIoT: Very Efficient Deep Learning in IoT

13 citations · 26 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.SE2025

A Data Annotation Requirements Representation and Specification (DARS)

Yi Peng, Hina Saeeda, Hans-Martin Heyn +3

With the rise of AI-enabled cyber-physical systems, data annotation has become a critical yet often overlooked process in the development of these intelligent information systems.…

cs.SE2025

From Machine Learning Documentation to Requirements: Bridging Processes with Requirements Languages

Yi Peng, Hans-Martin Heyn, Jennifer Horkoff

In software engineering processes for machine learning (ML)-enabled systems, integrating and verifying ML components is a major challenge. A prerequisite is the specification of ML…

cs.SE2025

Tutorial Debriefing: Applied Statistical Causal Inference in Requirements Engineering

Julian Frattini, Hans-Martin Heyn, Robert Feldt +1

As any scientific discipline, the software engineering (SE) research community strives to contribute to the betterment of the target population of our research: software producers…

cs.SE2025

Causal Models in Requirement Specifications for Machine Learning: A vision

Hans-Martin Heyn, Yufei Mao, Roland Weiss +1

Specifying data requirements for machine learning (ML) software systems remains a challenge in requirements engineering (RE). This vision paper explores causal modelling as an RE a…

cs.SE2024

Automated Configuration Synthesis for Machine Learning Models: A git-Based Requirement and Architecture Management System

Abdullatif AlShriaf, Hans-Martin Heyn, Eric Knauss

This work introduces a tool for generating runtime configurations automatically from textual requirements stored as artifacts in git repositories (a.k.a. T-Reqs) alongside the soft…

cs.AR2023★ 10 cited

VEDLIoT -- Next generation accelerated AIoT systems and applications

Kevin Mika, René Griessl, Nils Kucza +29

The VEDLIoT project aims to develop energy-efficient Deep Learning methodologies for distributed Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) applications. During our project, we propo…

cs.SE2023

Automotive Perception Software Development: An Empirical Investigation into Data, Annotation, and Ecosystem Challenges

Hans-Martin Heyn, Khan Mohammad Habibullah, Eric Knauss +4

Software that contains machine learning algorithms is an integral part of automotive perception, for example, in driving automation systems. The development of such software, speci…

cs.SE2023

Requirements Engineering for Automotive Perception Systems: an Interview Study

Khan Mohammad Habibullah, Hans-Martin Heyn, Gregory Gay +6

Background: Driving automation systems (DAS), including autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance, are an important safety-critical domain. DAS often incorporate perception…

cs.SE2023

An investigation of challenges encountered when specifying training data and runtime monitors for safety critical ML applications

Hans-Martin Heyn, Eric Knauss, Iswarya Malleswaran +1

Context and motivation: The development and operation of critical software that contains machine learning (ML) models requires diligence and established processes. Especially the t…

cs.SE2022★ 3 cited

A Compositional Approach to Creating Architecture Frameworks with an Application to Distributed AI Systems

Hans-Martin Heyn, Eric Knauss, Patrizio Pelliccione

Artificial intelligence (AI) in its various forms finds more and more its way into complex distributed systems. For instance, it is used locally, as part of a sensor system, on the…

cs.AR2022★ 13 cited

VEDLIoT: Very Efficient Deep Learning in IoT

Martin Kaiser, Rene Griessl, Nils Kucza +33

The VEDLIoT project targets the development of energy-efficient Deep Learning for distributed AIoT applications. A holistic approach is used to optimize algorithms while also deali…

cs.SE2022

Setting AI in context: A case study on defining the context and operational design domain for automated driving

Hans-Martin Heyn, Padmini Subbiash, Jennifer Linder +2

[Context and motivation] For automated driving systems, the operational context needs to be known in order to state guarantees on performance and safety. The operational design dom…

cs.LG2021

Requirement Engineering Challenges for AI-intense Systems Development

Hans-Martin Heyn, Eric Knauss, Amna Pir Muhammad +5

Availability of powerful computation and communication technology as well as advances in artificial intelligence enable a new generation of complex, AI-intense systems and applicat…