Abstract: The Electronic Tool Integration (ETI) platform is specifically designed for the interactive experimentation with heterogeneous software tools via the Internet. It enables even newcomers to master the wealth of existing software tools in a short timespan, and to identify the most appropriate collection of tools to solve their own application-specific tasks. Besides skething the functionality of ETI, the talk will address the associated online community service, which provides a community-overlapping forum for discussion, and supports people in setting up their own ETI site for organizing distributed projects.

Short CV: Born 31.5.58, he holds a Diplom in Mathematics (1983) and a Ph.D. in Computer Science (1987) from the University of Kiel (Germany). After holding research positions at the University of Edinburgh, UK (1988-89) and at the University of Aarhus, DK (1990) he was tenured Associate Professor at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany (1990-93) and held the Chair of Programming Systems at the University of Passau, Germany (1993-97). Since August 1997 he holds the Chair of Programming Systems at the University of Dortmund. He served in more than 40 international program committes, as well as on 5 editorial boards, and co-founded STTT, Springer's international journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer.