Address Växjö universitet School of Mathematics and Systems Engineering Computer Science, Room # 228 S-351-95 Växjö Sweden Tel. + 46 - (470) 70 8495 Email Welf dot Lowe at msi dot vxu dot se Web http://www.msi.vxu.se/~wlo

Research interests

Large Software systems are distributed systems. They possibly contain data parallel components. My research activities aim at methods, tools, and frameworks to design and implement such systems. They are embedded in compiler construction and software technologies, i.e. my generators, program analysis techniques, transformations and optimizations improve systems? reliability and efficiency.

XML appears an appropriate format for the data exchange in heterogous distributed systems. Data adaptation reduces to XML transformation. To speed up this, we use generators allowing an easy implementation of fast transformators. The aXMLerate project designes and implements such generators.

Existing distributed systems need to be understood before extended or changed. In our VizzEditor project we implement tools to visualize the static and the dynamic aspects of systems.

Projects

Former aXMLerate MOST VizzEditor

Involved with Software

		VizzEditor
		Programs are hard to understand. Especially when they're running. Good visualizations help.

Advised thesis subjects

		Diploma thesis
		Devlopment of an incremental, concurrent compiler for generic Java (closed)
		Studien thesis
		Architecture of a consistency checking editor (closed)
		Redesign of the debug interface of VizzEditor (closed)

Publications

		2003
		Noga, Löwe, Mapping Data Types of Programming Language and Web Services
		Heuzeroth, Löwe, Mandel, Generating Design Pattern Detectors from Pattern Specifications
		Heuzeroth, Löwe, Understanding Architecture Through Structure and Behavior Visualization, Chapter 9 in book: Software-Visualization - From Theory to Practice
		Heuzeroth, Holl, Högström, Löwe, Automatic Design Pattern Detection
		2002
		Noga, Schott, Löwe, Lazy XML Processing
		Löwe, Noga, Component Communication and Data Adaptation
		Noga, Löwe, Data Types and XML Schema
		Löwe, Noga, Metaprogramming Applied to Web Component Deployment
		Löwe, Noga, Scenario-Based Connector Optimization - An XML Approach
		Löwe, Noga, A Lightweight XML-based Middleware Architecture
		Heuzeroth, Holl, Löwe, Combining Static and Dynamic Analyses to Detect Interaction Patterns
		Löwe, Noga, Gaul, Foundations of Fast Communication via XML
		2001
		Löwe, Ludwig, Schwind, Understanding Software - Static and Dynamic Aspects
		Heuzeroth, Holl, Löwe, Combining Static and Dynamic Analyses to Detect Interaction Patterns
		Heuzeroth, Löwe, Ludwig, Assmann, Aspect-Oriented Configuration and Adaptation of Component Communication
		Gaul, Löwe, Noga, Specification in a large Industry Consortium - The MOST Approach
		Löwe, Liebrich, VizzScheduler - A Framework for the Visualization of Scheduling Algorithms
		1998
		Heberle, Löwe, Trapp, Safe Reuse of Source to Intermediate Language Compilations