Human-Centered Software Engineering Research Group

Institute of Software Engineering and Programming Languages,
Prof. Dr. Matthias Tichy

Empowering Humans to Drive the Digital Revolution

Software is ultimately developed for and by humans. Consequently, we – the Human-Centered Software Engineering Research Group – focus our software engineering research on supporting and empowering humans to drive the digital revolution.

We do this by aiming at reducing complexity, avoiding defects, and improving developer resp. user experience. We realize this by developing domain-specific languages, quality assurance techniques, and innovative tools. To ensure high-quality research, we apply incremental/iterative design science research to arrive at evaluated solutions and empirical research methods to systematically identify research opportunities and properly show the benefits of our research results. Our research targets embedded systems, particularly automotive software, self-adaptive systems, and software in general as application areas.

Team

M.Sc. Raphael Straub

M.Sc. Raphael Straub
Research Assistant
Ulm University
Institute of Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Albert-Einstein-Allee 11
89069 Ulm
Room: 027 421

M.Sc. Thomas Witte

Thomas Witte
M.Sc. Thomas Witte
Research Assistant
Ulm University
Institute of Software Engineering and Programming Languages
Albert-Einstein-Allee 11
89069 Ulm
Germany
Room: O27 4103

Research Projects

Tools to accelerate innovation along the automotive value chain

Self-organizing resilient execution platform for IoT services

Model-based Explainable Coordination of Complex Reconfigurations

Integrated Safety and Security Engineering of Self-Adaptive Systems.

Publications

2024

94.
Sihler, Florian; Pietzschmann, Lukas; Straub, Raphael; Tichy, Matthias; Diera, Andor; Dahou, Abdelhalim
On the Anatomy of Real-World R Code for Static Analysis
21st International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR '24)
January 2024
DOI:10.1145/3643991.3644911
File:pdfhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.16228.pdf

2023

93.
Pietron, Jakob; Raab, Heiko; Tichy, Matthias
Efficient Caching for Operation-based Versioning
16th Workshop on Models and Evolution (ME) 2023, co-located with MODELS'23, Västerås, Sweden
October 2023
DOI:10.1109/MODELS-C59198.2023.00152
92.
Pietron, Jakob; Raschke, Alexander; Exelmans, Joeri; Tichy, Matthias
Collaboration And Versioning Framework – a Systematic Top-Down Approach
2nd International Hands-on Workshop on Collaborative Modeling (HoWCoM),, co-located with MODELS'23, Västerås, Sweden
October 2023
DOI:10.1109/MODELS-C59198.2023.00124
91.
Pekaric, Irdin; Groner, Raffaela; Witte, Thomas; Adigun, Jubril Gbolahan; Raschke, Alexander; Felderer, Michael; Tichy, Matthias
A Systematic Review on Security and Safety of Self-adaptive Systems
Journal of Systems and Software
September 2023
DOI:10.1016/j.jss.2023.111716
90.
Exelmans, Joeri; Pietron, Jakob; Raschke, Alexander; Vangheluwe, Hans; Tichy, Matthias
A new versioning approach for collaboration in blended modeling
Journal of Computer Languages
August 2023
DOI:10.1016/j.cola.2023.101221
89.
Sihler, Florian; Pietron, Jakob; Tichy, Matthias
One-Way Model Transformations in the Context of the Technology-Roadmapping Tool IRIS
Journal of Object Technology
July 2023
DOI:10.5381/jot.2023.22.2.a2
88.
Stiess, Sarah Sophie; Höppner, Stefan; Becker, Steffen; Tichy, Matthias
Event-base Simulation for Transient System with Capture Replay to Predict Self-adaptive Systems (Work in Progress Paper)
14th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)
2023
April 2023
DOI:10.1145/3578245.3585029
87.
Groner, Raffaela; Bellmann, Peter; Höppner, Stefan; Thiam, Patrick; Schwenker, Friedhelm; Tichy, Matthias
Predicting the Performance of ATL Model Transformations
Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering
April 2023
DOI:10.1145/3578244.3583727

2022

86.
Pietron, Jakob; Funk, Lenard; Tichy, Matthias
Improving the Comprehension of Evolving Graphical Models
2022 Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT)
October 2022
DOI:10.1109/VISSOFT55257.2022.00018
85.
Höppner, Stefan; Haas, Yves; Tichy, Matthias; Juhnke, Katharina
Advantages and disadvantages of (dedicated) model transformation languages: A Qualitative Interview Study
Empirical Software Engineering
August 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI:10.1007/s10664-022-10194-7