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)

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Conference Paper
Antkiewicz, M., and K. Czarnecki, "Framework-Specific Modeling Languages with Round-Trip Engineering", ACM/IEEE 9th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS), Genova, Italy, Springer-Verlag, pp. 692-706, 2006. [pdf]
Diskin, Z., Y. Xiong, K. Czarnecki, H. Ehrig, F. Hermann, and F. Orejas, "From State- to Delta-based Bidirectional Model Transformations: the Symmetric Case", ACM/IEEE 14th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Springer, 10/2011. [pdf][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]
Breymann, U., K. Czarnecki, and U. Eisenecker, "Generative Components: One Step Beyond Generic Programming", Dagstuhl Seminar 9817 Generic Programming, Germany, Dagstuhl Castle, 04/1998.
Eisenecker, U., and K. Czarnecki, "Generative Programming", 42nd International Colloquium of the Technical University of Ilmenau, 09/1997.
Czarnecki, K., T. Bednasch, P. Unger, and U. Eisenecker, "Generative Programming for Embedded Software: An Industrial Experience Report", First ACM SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE’02), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2487, Pittsburgh, USA, Springer-Verlag, pp. 156 - 172, 2002.
Hessellund, A., K. Czarnecki, and A. Wąsowski, "Guided Development with Multiple Domain-Specific Languages", ACM/IEEE 10th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS), vol. 4735, Nashville, USA, Springer, pp. 46 - 60, 2007. [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.
Rauf, R., M. Antkiewicz, and K. Czarnecki, "Logical Structure Extraction from Software Requirements Documents", International Requirements Engineering Conference: IEEE, 09/2011. [pdf][pdf]
Ji, W., T. Berger, M. Antkiewicz, and K. Czarnecki, "Maintaining Feature Traceability with Embedded Annotations", 19th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC), 2015. [pdf][pdf]
Rubin, J., K. Czarnecki, and M. Chechik, "Managing Cloned Variants: A Framework and Experience", 17th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC), Tokyo, Japan, 2013.
Czarnecki, K., and M. Antkiewicz, "Mapping Features to Models: A Template Approach Based on Superimposed Variants", ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'05), vol. 3676, Tallinn, Estonia, Springer-Verlag, pp. 422 - 437, 2005. [pdf][zip][zip]
Branco, M., J. Troya, K. Czarnecki, J. M. Küster, and H. Völzer, "Matching Business Process Workflows Across Abstraction Levels", MODELS 2012, Innsbruck, Austria, ACM/IEEE, 2012.
Zulkoski, E., V. Ganesh, and K. Czarnecki, "MathCheck: A Math Assistant based on a Combination of Computer Algebra Systems and SAT Solvers", International Conference on Automated Deduction, Berlin, Germany, Springer, 08/2015. [pdf][pptx]
Nadi, S., T. Berger, C. Kästner, and K. Czarnecki, "Mining Configuration Constraints: Static Analyses and Empirical Results", 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'14), 2014. [pdf]
Heydarnoori, A., and K. Czarnecki, "Mining Implementation Recipes of Framework-Provided Concepts in Dynamic Framework API Interaction Traces", OOPSLA Companion, Tool Demonstration Track, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, ACM Press, pp. 876-877, 10/2007.
Meusel, M., K. Czarnecki, and W. Kopf, "A model for structuring user documentation of object-oriented frameworks using patterns and hypertext", ECOOP'97 — Object-Oriented Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1241, Jyväskylä, Finland, Springer-Verlag, pp. 496 - 510, 1997.
Czarnecki, K., M. Antkiewicz, C H P. Kim, S Q. Lau, and K. Pietroszek, "Model-Driven Software Product Lines", OOPSLA'05 Companion, 2005. [pdf]
Diskin, Z., K. Czarnecki, and M. Antkiewicz, "Model-versioning-in-the-large: Algebraic foundations and the tile notation", 2009 ICSE Workshop on Comparison and Versioning of Software Models (CVSM), Vancouver, BC, Canada, IEEE, pp. 7 - 12, 2009. [pdf][pdf]
Gaeta, J., and K. Czarnecki, "Modeling Aerospace Systems Product Lines in SysML", 19th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC), 2015.
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]
Khalilov, E., J. Ross, M. Antkiewicz, M. Voelter, and K. Czarnecki, "Modeling and Optimizing Automotive Electric/Electronic (E/E) Architectures: Towards Making Clafer Accessible to Practitioners", ISoLA: Springer, 2016. [pdf]
Sun, P., Z. Diskin, M. Antkiewicz, and K. Czarnecki, "Modeling and Reasoning with Multirelations, and their encoding in Alloy", 16th International Workshop in OCL and Textual Modeling, 10/2016.
Chauchan, M., R. Pellizzoni, and K. Czarnecki, "Modeling the Effects of AUTOSAR Overheads on Application Timing and Schedulability", Design Automation Conference, 06/2017.
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]
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In our lab, people rarely work alone - we collaborate a lot with each other as well as with external researchers and our industry partners.

Michal Antkiewicz

Our regular stand-up scrum meetings are a great way to have regular interaction with other team members, as well as our supervisor.

Rafael Lotufo