The Architecture-driven Requirements Engineering (ARE) group has been started in February 2013 and is headed by Jun.-Prof. Anne Koziolek.
Our research is concerned with evaluating software architectures to provide systematic decision support for requirements engineering activities, following the idea of the Twin Peaks of requirements and architecture by Bashar Nuseibeh. The current focus of the group is quality requirements, where the results of software architecture optimization is used to provide quantitative feedback about the attainable design space.