Institute of Software Engineering and Programming Languages

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
Email: raphael.straub(at)uni-ulm.de
Room: 027 413

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
Email: thomas.witte(at)uni-ulm.de
Room: O27 4103

Research Projects

GENIAL!

Tools to accelerate innovation along the automotive value chain

SORRIR

Self-organizing resilient execution platform for IoT services

MENTOR

Model-based Explainable Coordination of Complex Reconfigurations

SafeSec

Integrated Safety and Security Engineering of Self-Adaptive Systems.

Publications

2020

70.
Groner, Raffaela; Beaucamp, Luis; Tichy, Matthias; Becker, Steffen
An Exploratory Study on Performance Engineering in Model Transformations
In ACM/IEEE 23rd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS ’20), October 18–23, 2020, Virtual Event, Canada.
October 2020
DOI:10.1145/3365438.3410950
69.
Nachreiner, Leander; Raschke, Alexander; Stegmaier, Michael; Tichy, Matthias
CouchEdit: A Relaxed Conformance Editing Approach
MLE ’20: 2nd International Workshop on Modeling Language Engineering and Execution
October 2020
DOI:10.1145/3417990.3421401
68.
Götz, Stefan; Tichy, Matthias
Investigating the Origins of Complexity and Expressiveness in ATL Transformations
Journal of Object Technology, 19 :12:1-21
July 2020
DOI:10.5381/jot.2020.19.2.a12
File:pdfhttp://www.jot.fm/issues/issue_2020_02/article12.pdf
67.
Götz, Stefan; Tichy, Matthias; Groner, Raffaela
Claimed advantages and disadvantages of (dedicated) model transformation languages: a systematic literature review
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
July 2020
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI:10.1007/s10270-020-00815-4
File:https://rdcu.be/b5A6X
66.
Tichy, Matthias; Pietron, Jakob; Mödinger, David; Juhnke, Katharina; Hauck, Franz J.
Experiences with an Internal DSL in the IoT Domain
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for the Internet-of-Things (MDE4IoT 2020)
July 2020
File:pdfhttp://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2707/mde4iotpaper1.pdf

2019

65.
Witte, Thomas; Tichy, Matthias
A Hybrid Editor for Fast Robot Mission Prototyping
Proc. of the 1st International Workshop on Explainable Software
November 2019
64.
Witte, Thomas; Tichy, Matthias
Code Manipulation through Interactive Markers in a Live Preview
November 2019
63.
Stegmaier, Michael; Raschke, Alexander; Tichy, Matthias; Meßner, Eva-Maria; Hajian, Sara; Feldengut, Anna
Insights for Improving Diagram Editing Gained from an Empirical Study
Fourth International Workshop on Human Factors in Modeling
September 2019
DOI:10.1109/MODELS-C.2019.00063
File:pdfhttps://www.uni-ulm.de/fileadmin/website_uni_ulm/iui.inst.170/home/stegmaier/HuFaMo2019_Stegmaier_Insights.pdf
62.
Juhnke, Katharina; Tichy, Matthias
A Tailored Domain Analysis Method for Developing System-Specific Testing DSLs Enabling their Smooth Introduction in Automotive Practice
Proceedings of the 45th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2019), Kallithea Chalkidiki, Greece
August 2019
DOI:10.1109/SEAA.2019.00011
61.
Hoppenstedt, Burkhard; Witte, Thomas; Ruof, Jona; Kammerer, Klaus; Tichy, Matthias; Reichert, Manfred; Pryss, Rüdiger
Debugging Quadrocopter Trajectories in Mixed Reality
AVR 2019: Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Computer Graphics
July 2019