Krzysztof Czarnecki, Ph.D., P.Eng.

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bank of Nova Scotia / NSERC Industrial Research Chair

I work in the area of Generative Software Development. See the overview paper for an introduction.

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  • MoDELS'09 conference chair
  • Scotiabank/NSERC Industrial Research Chair

Publications

Submitted
Diskin, Z., A. Wider, M. Branco, and K. Czarnecki, "A Space of Model Synchronization Types: Symmetrization of Model Transformations and its Challenges", Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS'13), Submitted.
2013
Passos, L., J. Guo, Leopoldo Teixeira, K. Czarnecki, A. Wasowski, and Paulo Borba, "Coevolution of Variability Models and Related Artifacts: A Case Study from the Linux Kernel", 17th International Software Product Line Conference: ACM, To appear, 2013. [pdf]
Guo, J., K. Czarnecki, S. Apel, N. Siegmund, and A. Wasowski, Why CART Works for Variability-Aware Performance Prediction? An Empirical Study on Performance Distributions, , Waterloo, Generative Software Development Laboratory, University of Waterloo, 04/2013. [pdf]
Passos, L., K. Czarnecki, S. Apel, A. Wasowski, C. Kästner, J. Guo, and C. Hunsen, "Feature-Oriented Software Evolution", The Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems, Italy, ACM , 01/2013. [pdf][pdf]
Branco, M., Y. Xiong, K. Czarnecki, J. M. Küster, and H. Völzer, "A Case Study on Consistency Management of Business and IT Process Models in Banking", SoSyM - Special Issue on Enterprise Modeling, 2013.
Antkiewicz, M., K. Bąk, A. Murashkin, R. Olaechea, J. Liang, and K. Czarnecki, "Clafer Tools for Product Line Engineering", Software Product Line Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 2013. [pdf]
Bąk, K., D. Zayan, K. Czarnecki, M. Antkiewicz, Z. Diskin, A. Wąsowski, and D. Rayside, "Example-Driven Modeling. Model = Abstractions + Examples", New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track of the 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2013. [pdf]
Dubinsky, Y., J. Rubin, T. Berger, S. Duszynski, M. Becker, and K. Czarnecki, "An Exploratory Study of Cloning in Industrial Software Product Lines", 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), 2013. [pdf]
Kuester, J., F.. Cedric, H. Voelzer, M. Branco, and K. Czarnecki, "Supporting Different Process Views through a Shared Process Model", 9th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications, ECMFA 2013, 2013.
Berger, T., R. Rublack, D. Nair, J. M. Atlee, M. Becker, K. Czarnecki, and A. Wąsowski, "A survey of variability modeling in industrial practice", Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems, New York, NY, USA, ACM, pp. 7:1–7:8, 2013. [pdf][pdf]
2012
Andersen, N., K. Czarnecki, S. She, and A. Wasowski, "Efficient Synthesis of Feature Models", Software Product Line Conference (SPLC), Salvador, Brasil, 2012. [pdf]
Heydarnoori, A., K. Czarnecki, W. Binder, and T. Tonelli Bartolomei, "Two Studies of Framework-Usage Templates Extracted from Dynamic Traces", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 38, issue 6, 12/2012. [pdf]
Olaechea, R., S. Stewart, K. Czarnecki, and D. Rayside, "Modeling and Multi-Objective Optimization of Quality Attributes in Variability-Rich Software", International Workshop on Non- functional System Properties in Domain Specific Modeling Languages (NFPinDSML’12), Innsbruck, Austria, 10/2012. [pdf][pptx]
Lotufo, R., and K. Czarnecki, Improving Bug Report Comprehension, : University of Waterloo, 09/2012. [pdf]
Lotufo, R., Z. Malik, and K. Czarnecki, "Modelling the `Hurried' Bug Report Reading Process to Summarize Bug Reports", International Conference on Software Maintenance, Trento, Italy, IEEE, 09/2012. [pdf][pdf]
Guo, J., K. Czarnecki, S. Apel, N. Siegmund, and A. Wasowski, Variability-Aware Performance Modeling: A Statistical Learning Approach, , Waterloo, Generative Software Development Laboratory, University of Waterloo, 08/2012. [pdf]
Xiong, Y., A. Hubaux, S. She, and K. Czarnecki, "Generating Range Fixes for Software Configuration", ICSE'12: 34th International Conference on Software Engineering, 06/2012. [pdf][pdf][zip]
Lotufo, R., L. Passos, and K. Czarnecki, "Towards Improving Bug Tracking Systems with Game Mechanisms", 9th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR'12), Zurich, Switzerland, IEEE (also published as GSDLAB–TR 2011–09–29), 06/2012. [pdf][zip]
Wang, B., L. Passos, Y. Xiong, K. Czarnecki, H. Zhao, W. Zhang, and H. Mei, SmartFixer: Fixing Software Configurations based on Self-adaptive Priorities, , Waterloo, Generative Software Development Laboratory, University of Waterloo, 04/2012. [pdf][txt][xls]
Terra, R., M T. Valente, K. Czarnecki, and R. S. Bigonha, "Recommending Refactorings to Reverse Software Architecture Erosion", 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), Early Research Achievements Track, 03/2012. [pdf]
Czarnecki, K., P. Gruenbacher, R. Rabiser, K. Schmid, and A. Wasowski, "Cool Features and Tough Decisions: A Comparison of Variability Modeling Approaches", Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS), Leipzig, Germany, ACM Press, 01/2012. [pdf]
Diskin, Z., T. Maibaum, and K. Czarnecki, "Intermodeling, queries, and Kleisli categories", 15th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE'12), Tallinn, Estonia, LNCS, volume 7212, pp. 163-177, 01/2012.
Hubaux, A., Y. Xiong, and K. Czarnecki, "A User Survey of Configuration Challenges in Linux and eCos", Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS), Leipzig, Germany, ACM Press, 01/2012. [pdf]
Branco, M., Y. Xiong, K. Czarnecki, J. M. Küster, and H. Voelzer, An Empirical Study on Consistency Management of Business and IT Process Models, , Waterloo, Generative Software Development Laboratory, 2012. [pdf]
Bąk, K., D. Zayan, K. Czarnecki, M. Antkiewicz, Z. Diskin, A. Wąsowski, and D. Rayside, Example-Driven Modeling poster, , Toronto, CASCON, 2012. [pdf]
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