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Institute of Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Ulm University
James-Franck-Ring
D-89069 Ulm
Building O27, Level 4
Phone: +49 (0)731 / 50 - 24161
Email: in.sp-office@uni-ulm.de
Institute of Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Research
Our research covers many aspects of software engineering and programming languages. In particular, we focus on domain-specific languages, software configuration, and constraint programming. We employ formalized theories, develop open-source tools, and apply empirical research methods.
Teaching
The institute represents the areas software engineering and programming languages in the bachelor and master programs of computer science and related fields. We offer the following mandatory courses in the Bachelor's program:
- Interactive Systems Programming
- Software Engineering
- Software Project
Furthermore, we are responsible for the bachelor and master program Software Engineering.
Overview of the courses in the bachelor and master programs
News
flowR Receives Unrestricted Gift From Posit
flowR, a static analyzer for R, receives an unrestricted gift from Posit to support the flowR's security analysis
Rising Star Award at RSECon25
Florian Sihler received the Rising Star Award at RSECon25.
"Statically Analyzing the Dataflow of R Programs" accepted at OOPSLA '25
Our paper on "Statically Analyzing the Dataflow of R Programs" got accepted at SPLASH/OOPSLA '25
Waddle Receives iwimint Funding
Waddle, a serious game to teach programming concepts, got funded as an iwimint project!
Book on Algorithmic Game Theory
Florian Sihler co-authored a book on Algorithmic Game Theory together with Jacobo Torán and Julian Nickerl.
Newest publications
2025
744.
Straub,
Raphael;
Sihler,
Florian;
Torbati,
Ali;
Wang,
Cong;
Groner,
Raffaela;
Klös,
Verena;
Tichy,
Matthias
Explainability in Self-Adaptive Systems: A Systematic Literature Review
Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications 2025,
September 2025
Explainability in Self-Adaptive Systems: A Systematic Literature Review
Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications 2025,
September 2025
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-032-04200-2_19 |
743.
Rechenberger,
Sascha;
Frühwirth,
Thom
A refined operational semantics for FreeCHR
41st International Conference on Logic Programming
September 2025
A refined operational semantics for FreeCHR
41st International Conference on Logic Programming
September 2025
| File: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04962 |
742.
Reiche,
Frederik;
Reussner,
Ralf;
Heinrich,
Robert
Detecting Information Flow Security Vulnerabilities by Analysis Coupling
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
September 2025
Publisher: IEEE
Detecting Information Flow Security Vulnerabilities by Analysis Coupling
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
September 2025
Publisher: IEEE
| DOI: | 10.1109/TSE.2025.3589647 |
741.
Rechenberger,
Sascha;
Frühwirth,
Thom
Optimized Execution of FreeCHR
39th Workshop on (Constraint and Functional) Logic Programming
September 2025
Optimized Execution of FreeCHR
39th Workshop on (Constraint and Functional) Logic Programming
September 2025
| File: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14485 |
740.
Heß,
Tobias;
Molt,
Aaron;
Böhm,
Sabrina;
Krieter,
Sebastian;
Thüm,
Thomas
Pick Me: Judging Sample Quality with Binary Decision Diagrams
SPLC-A '25: Proceedings of the 2025 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
August 2025
Pick Me: Judging Sample Quality with Binary Decision Diagrams
SPLC-A '25: Proceedings of the 2025 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference,
August 2025
| DOI: | 10.1145/3744915.3748469 |