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

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
I work in the area of Generative Software Development. See the overview paper for an introduction.

Short biography

Krzysztof Czarnecki is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. Before coming to Waterloo, he was a researcher at DaimlerChrysler Research (1995-2002), Germany, focusing on improving software development practices and technologies in enterprise, automotive, and aerospace domains. He co-authored the book on "Generative Programming" (Addison- Wesley, 2000), which deals with automating software component assembly based on domain-specific languages. While at Waterloo, he held the NSERC/Bank of Nova Scotia Industrial Research Chair in Requirements Engineering of Service-oriented Software Systems (2008-2013) and has worked on a range of topics in model-driven systems and software engineering, including product lines engineering, design synthesis, variability modeling, model transformation, and domain-specific languages. He received the Premier's Research Excellence Award in 2004 and the British Computing Society in Upper Canada Award for Outstanding Contributions to IT Industry in 2008.

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  • MoDELS'09 conference chair
  • Bank of Nova Scotia / NSERC Industrial Research Chair (2008-2013)

Publications

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Guo, J., K. Czarnecki, S. Apel, N. Siegmund, and A. Wąsowski, Variability-Aware Performance Modeling: A Statistical Learning Approach, , Waterloo, Generative Software Development Laboratory, University of Waterloo, 08/2012. [pdf]
Nadi, S., T. Berger, C. Kästner, and K. Czarnecki, Where do Configuration Constraints Stem From? An Extraction Approach and an Empirical Study, : Generative Software Development Laboratory, University of Waterloo, 2015. [pdf]
Guo, J., K. Czarnecki, S. Apel, N. Siegmund, and A. Wąsowski, 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]
Miscellaneous
Bąk, K., D. Zayan, K. Czarnecki, M. Antkiewicz, Z. Diskin, A. Wąsowski, and D. Rayside, Example-Driven Modeling poster, , Toronto, CASCON, 2012. [pdf]
Magazine Article
Czarnecki, K., M. Antkiewicz, and C H P. Kim, "Mehrstufige, Kunden-Spezifische Anpassungen in der Anwendungsentwicklung", Objekt Spektrum, issue 1, 01/2007.
Czarnecki, K., M. Antkiewicz, and C H P. Kim, "Multi-level customization in application engineering", Communications of the ACM, vol. 49, issue 12, pp. 60, 12/2006. [pdf]
Journal Article
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.
Bąk, K., Z. Diskin, M. Antkiewicz, K. Czarnecki, and A. Wąsowski, "Clafer: Unifying Class and Feature Modeling", Software and Systems Modeling, 2014. [pdf]
Passos, L., L. Teixeira, D. Nicolas, S. Apel, A. Wąsowski, K. Czarnecki, P. Borba, and J. Guo, "Coevolution of Variability Models and Related Software Artifacts: A Fresh Look at Evolution Patterns in the Linux Kernel", Empirical Software Engineering, Springer, 05/2015.
Antkiewicz, M., K. Czarnecki, and M. Stephan, "Engineering of Framework-Specific Modeling Languages", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 35, issue 6, pp. 795 - 824, 11/2009. [pdf]
Antkiewicz, M., T. Tonelli Bartolomei, and K. Czarnecki, "Fast Extraction of High-Quality Framework-Specific Models from Application Code", Automated Software Engineering, vol. 16, issue 1, pp. 101 - 144, 03/2009. [pdf]
Czarnecki, K., and S. Helsen, "Feature-based survey of model transformation approaches", IBM Systems Journal, vol. 45, issue 3, no. 3, Riverton, NJ, USA, IBM Corp., pp. 621–645, 2006. [pdf]
Czarnecki, K., S. Helsen, and U. Eisenecker, "Formalizing cardinality-based feature models and their specialization", Software Process: Improvement and Practice, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 7 - 29, 01/2005. [pdf]
Diskin, Z., Y. Xiong, and K. Czarnecki, "From State- to Delta-Based Bidirectional Model Transformations: the Asymmetric Case", Journal of Object Technology, vol. 10, 2011.
Eisenecker, U., F. Blinn, and K. Czarnecki, "Mixin-Based Programming in C++: A solution to the constructor problem", Dr. Dobb's Journal, pp. 111-112, 01/2001.
Queiroz, R., L. Passos, M T. Valente, C. Hunsen, S. Apel, and K. Czarnecki, "The Shape of Feature Code: An Analysis of Twenty C-Preprocessor-Based Systems", Journal on Software and Systems Modeling: Springer, pp. 1–29, 07/2015.
Czarnecki, K., S. Helsen, and U. Eisenecker, "Staged configuration through specialization and multilevel configuration of feature models", Software Process: Improvement and Practice, vol. 10, issue 2, pp. 143 - 169, 04/2005. [pdf]
Berger, T., S. She, R. Lotufo, A. Wąsowski, and K. Czarnecki, "A Study of Variability Models and Languages in the Systems Software Domain", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 39, issue 12, no. 12, pp. 1611-1640, Dec, 2013. [pdf]
Kuester, J., H. Voelzer, C. Favre, M. Branco, and K. Czarnecki, "Supporting Different Process Views through a Shared Process Model", Software and Systems Modeling, 2015.
Ross, J., A. Murashkin, J. Liang, M. Antkiewicz, and K. Czarnecki, "Synthesis and Exploration of Multi-Level, Multi-Perspective Architectures of Automotive Embedded Systems", Software and Systems Modeling, 2017.
Czarnecki, K., and U. Eisenecker, "Synthesizing objects", Concurrency - Practice and Experience, vol. 12, no. 14, pp. 1347-1377, 2000. [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]
Berger, T., R-H. Pfeiffer, R. Tartler, S. Dienst, K. Czarnecki, A. Wąsowski, and S. She, "Variability Mechanisms in Software Ecosystems", Information and Software Technology, vol. 56, issue 11, 2014. [pdf]
Nadi, S., T. Berger, C. Kästner, and K. Czarnecki, "Where do Configuration Constraints Stem From? An Extraction Approach and an Empirical Study", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2015.
Conference Proceedings
Olaechea, R., D. Rayside, J. Guo, and K. Czarnecki, "Comparison of exact and approximate multi-objective optimization for software product lines", Software Product Line Conference, vol. 1, Florence, Italy, ACM, pp. 92-101, 10/2014. [pdf]
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