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Doctoral Defense of Nils Wild
4 November 2025
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Proto-ML IDE
An IDE to support prototyping of ML solutions
Book "Software Engineering" (German)
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Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality
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Research areas
Software Architecture
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Recent publications
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Alex Mattukat,
Florian Braun,
Horst Lichter (2026)
Can ChatGPT Generate Realistic Synthetic System Requirement Specifications? Results of a Case Study. In 21th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2026) (to be published), Benidorm, Spain, May 22-24, SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda.
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Selin Coban,
Miguel Perez,
Horst Lichter (2026)
Proto-ML: An IDE for ML Solution Prototyping (to be published). In 2025 IEEE/ACM Third IDE Workshop (IDE), May, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA. URL
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Selin Coban,
David Kierdorf,
Çağatay Akpınar,
Horst Lichter (2026)
CellFlow: A Tool For Automatic Jupyter Notebook Workflow Visualization (to be published). In 2026 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), Amsterdam, Netherlands, June. PDF
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Simon Hacks,
Ada Slupczynski (2026)
Advancing Enterprise Architecture Debt: Insights from Work System Theory. In Rébecca Deneckère, Marite Kirikova, Janis Grabis (eds.) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research - 24th International Conference on Business Informatics Research, BIR 2025, Riga, Latvia, September 17-19, 2025, Proceedings, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 562, ISBN 978-3-032-04375-7, 107-123.
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Ada Slupczynski,
Leila Mangonaux,
Ilija Kovacevic,
Michal Slupczynski,
Stefan Decker,
Horst Lichter (2026)
Collaborative Code Modernization with Local LLM Deployment and Evidence-Based Prompt Guidelines. In 21th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2026) (to be published), Benidorm, Spain, May 22-24, SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda.