Our paper titled  Towards Semi-Automated Merge Conflict Resolution: Is It Easier Than We Expected? by  Alexander Boll,  Yael van Dok,  Manuel Ohrndorf,  Alexander Schultheiß and  Timo Kehrer, to be presented at the  International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2024), has received a Distinguished Paper Award.

To promote STEM subjects, the  Werner Siemens Foundation (WSS) in cooperation with the  Swiss Study Foundation awards every year ten excellent students with a  Werner Siemens Fellowship. In addition to financial support, the fellowship provides opportunities to participate in networking events of the Werner Siemens Program.

Our new PhD student,  Roman Bögli, is one of the fellows 2023/24 and was recently featured in a  portrait article on the WSS homepage. Among others, he talks about his research conducted during his Master’s thesis at IBM Research in Rüschlikon.

At the  SE 2024 conference in Linz, Austria,  Sandra Greiner co-organized the sixth edition of the  SECPPS workshop. The Software Engineering (SE) conference is a gathering organized by the  Software Engineering Division (SWT) of the  German Informatics Society (GI).

We are pleased to announce several  open PhD positions in the field of software engineering, each of them being funded for at least 4 years. We are looking for highly motivated and dedicated individuals to join our research group and to advance software engineering knowledge and methods.

At the  SPLC in Tokyo, Japan,  Sandra Greiner co-organized the sixth edition of the  VariVolution workshop. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers studying software evolution and variability from different angles as well as practitioners encountering these phenomena in real-world applications and systems.