Publication

Best Paper Award at VaMoS 2025 | News
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We are happy to share that our paper Teach Variability! A Modern University Course on Software Product Lines, by Elias Kuiter, Thomas Thüm and Timo Kehrer, received the best paper award at VaMoS 2025. We are glad to see that our efforts in designing a new course on software product lines have been recognized by the community.
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EASE 2024 Distinguished Paper Award | News
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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.
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FSE 2024 Best Demonstration Award | News
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Our collaboration paper titled Variability-Aware Differencing with DiffDetective by Paul Maximilian Bittner, Alexander Schultheiß, Benjamin Moosherr, Timo Kehrer and Thomas Thüm, presented at the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2024), has received a Best Demonstration Award.
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ICSE 2026 Paper Accepted | News
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We are happy to announce that our paper titled Decades of GNU Patch and Git Cherry-Pick: Can We Do Better? by Alexander Schultheiß, Alexander Boll, Paul Maximilian Bittner, Sandra Greiner, Thomas Thüm, and Timo Kehrer has been accepted to the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2026.
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IWST 2022 Best Paper Award (1^st prize) | News
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IWST 2022 Best Paper Award (1^st prize) for Can We Automatically Generate Class Comments in Pharo? by Pooja Rani, Alexandre Bergel, Lino Hess, Timo Kehrer and Oscar Nierstrasz at the International Workshop on Smalltalk Technologies 2022 (IWST 2022) in Novi Sad, Serbia.
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Paper on Round-Trip Migrations in IEEE TSC | News
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Paper by Luca Beurer-Kellner, Jens von Pilgrim, Christos Tsigkanos, and Timo Kehrer to appear in the [IEEE Transactions on Services Computing]/(https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4629386).
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SPLC 2024 Best Research Paper | News
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Our paper titled Give an Inch and Take a Mile? Effects of Adding Reliable Knowledge to Heuristic Feature Tracing by Sandra Greiner, Alexander Schultheiß, Paul Maximilian Bittner, Thomas Thüm and Timo Kehrer, presented at the 28^th ACM INTERNATIONAL SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE CONFERENCE (SPLC 2024), has received a Best Research Paper award.
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Vision Paper Published at FSE 2025: Community-Driven Variability (CDV) | News
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At this year’s FSE 2025 conference in Trondheim, we presented our vision paper “Beyond Software Families: Community-Driven Variability”. It’s about the beautiful chaos in open-source, decentralized software ecosystems – such as Bitcoin – that exhibit multi-dimensional variability, yet strive for interoperability. We discuss this phenomenon of Community-Driven Variability (CDV), highlight emerging problems, and outline research goals to tackle them.
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