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Paper published in the CSIMQ Journal
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IDE @ ICSE 2026 Best Presentation Award
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25 March 2026
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Research areas
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Recent publications
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Selin Coban,
Patrick Chrestin,
Horst Lichter (2026)
Knowledge Reuse in ML Prototyping: Insights from an Interview Study. In The Twelve International Conference on Advances and Trends in Software Engineering (SOFTENG 2026) (to be published), Venice, Italy, May 24-28, IARIA Press. PDF
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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.
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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 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, 825-832.
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Ada Slupczynski (2026)
A Modernization Decision Framework for Legacy Information Systems. In Intelligent Information Systems CAiSE 2026 Forum and Doctoral Consortium (CAiSE 2026) (to be published), Verona, Italy, Jun 8-12, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham.
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Alex Mattukat,
Vincent Schmandt,
Timo Langstrof,
Michael Zerbe,
Horst Lichter (2026)
A Faceted Classification of Authenticator-Centric Authentication Techniques. In Computing Research Repository (CoRR), Vol. 2604.03627, arXiv.
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