Finished Related Work Research

Today I finally managed summarizing, excavating, and structuring the related work for my dissertation. All in all, it's about 300 references to books, chapter, papers, articles, ...

That was quite a bit of work; though on the other hand no one can say I missed a reference.

Also, the various bits and pieces delivered additional argumentation for some of research goals. This encourages me and my fellow researchers, too.

I guess today's a good day.

Finishing Review Rounds with Professors

I am about to finish my review rounds with the professor of our faculty. So far, I've had 4 appointments with professors (outside my institute) who were interested in my work. The discussion led to a lot of insight when receiving feedback from a different angle. That really made a difference. I got interesting tips of what and what not to do and how to cope with the latest challenges I am facing in writing/finishing my dissertation.

The current status: All is well and I am on a straight line towards finishing my thesis. For the last leg of the journey I cannot foresee any curvy roads that I might have overlooked; but one never knows, so I am excited but positive that this is the last inning of a long game...

Keep your fingers crossed, I am about to get this thing done in the next couple of months.

Publishing My Work for Internal Review

I have sent out my PhD thesis (i.e. parts of it) to all faculty members holding a professorship to receive valuable feedback for my final dissertation. So far I have received interesting hints as to what I want to emphasize or focus for the written documentation of my work.

I will certainly not be able to respect or include all suggestions since this is out of the scope of this work. But each and every idea from "outside" leaves another opportunity for the RE research team at our research chair. I will include everything in my thesis, even if it falls into conclusion and outlook for further projects.

The clue is that every professor who wants to see and discuss my work can now invite me for a meeting which I have to attend. I will keep you updates how many invitations I will receive.

Preparing ERC Grant

We are currently in the process of preparing a research grant for ERC.

The grant is due Feb, 9th and we will be able to provide a very interesting and nifty vision of how to cope with the future of software development.

I will keep you posted on that.