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Recent publications
- Alex Mattukat,
Vincent Schmandt,
Timo Langstrof,
Michael Zerbe,
Horst Lichter (2026)
A Faceted Classification of Authenticator-Centric Authentication Techniques. In 21st International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2026), Benidorm, Spain, May 22-24, SciTePress – Science and Technology Publications, Lda, Vol. 1, ISBN 978-989-758-828-0, 568-578.
DOI - Ada Slupczynski (2026)
Toward a Holistic Enterprise Modernization Lifecycle - Comparison of Existing Processes and Frameworks. In Proceedings des 28. Workshop Software-Reengineering und -Evolution, GI, Bonn, Vol. 46, No. 2, 44-45. PDF - Nils Wild (2026)
Interaction-based Integration Testing of Component-based Software Systems. PhD thesis, Shaker Verlag, Düren, Aachener Informatik-Berichte, Software Engineering, No. 64, ISBN 978-3-8191-0533-3, RWTH Aachen University. PDF - Selin Coban,
Miguel Perez,
Çağatay Akpınar,
Baran Tanriverdi,
Horst Lichter (2026)
An LLM-based Approach for Automatic ML Prototype Review. In 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering - Companion (SANER-C), Limassol, Cyprus, March, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 277-284.
DOI PDF - Selin Coban,
Miguel Perez,
Horst Lichter (2026)
Proto-ML: An IDE for ML Solution Prototyping. In IDE '26: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Integrated Development Environments, May, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, IDE '26, ISBN 9798400723841, 6–11.
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