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

2013
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]
Rubin, J., K. Czarnecki, and M. Chechik, "Managing Cloned Variants: A Framework and Experience", 17th International Software Product Line Conference (SPLC), Tokyo, Japan, 2013.
Bąk, K., Z. Diskin, M. Antkiewicz, K. Czarnecki, and A. Wąsowski, "Partial Instances via Subclassing", 6th International Conference on Software Language Engineering, Indianapolis, USA, 2013. [pdf][pdf]
Wang, B., L. Passos, Y. Xiong, K. Czarnecki, H. Zhao, and W. Zhang, "SmartFixer: Fixing Software Configurations based on Self-adaptive Priorities", 17th International Software Product Line Conference, Tokyo, ACM, 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", 7th International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS), 2013. [pdf][pdf]
Murashkin, A., M. Antkiewicz, D. Rayside, and K. Czarnecki, "Visualization and Exploration of Optimal Variants in Product Line Engineering", Software Product Line Conference, Tokyo, Japan, 2013. [pdf][pdf]
Passos, L., K. Czarnecki, S. Apel, A. Wąsowski, 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]
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]
Guo, J., K. Czarnecki, S. Apel, N. Siegmund, and A. Wąsowski, "Variability-Aware Performance Prediction: A Statistical Learning Approach", 28th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Silicon Valley, California, USA, IEEE, 11/2013. [pdf][pdf]
Passos, L., J. Guo, L. Teixeira, K. Czarnecki, A. Wąsowski, and P. Borba, "Coevolution of Variability Models and Related Artifacts: A Case Study from the Linux Kernel", 17th International Software Product Line Conference, Tokyo, ACM, 2013. [pdf][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]
2014
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., and K. Czarnecki, "A Dataset of Feature Additions and Feature Removals from the Linux Kernel", 11th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories, India, IEEE/ACM, 2014. [pdf]
Queiroz, R., L. Passos, M T. Valente, S. Apel, and K. Czarnecki, "Does Feature Scattering Follow Power-Law Distributions? An Investigation of Five Pre-Processor-Based Systems", 6th International Workshop of Feature-Oriented Software Evolution, Sweden, ACM, 2014. [pdf]
Zayan, D., M. Antkiewicz, and K. Czarnecki, "Effects of Using Examples on Structural Model Comprehension", ICSE, 2014. [zip][pdf][ppsx]
Antkiewicz, M., W. Ji, T. Berger, K. Czarnecki, T. Schmorleiz, R. Laemmel, Ș. Stănciulescu, A. Wąsowski, and I. Schaefer, "Flexible Product Line Engineering with a Virtual Platform", ICSE, 2014. [pdf][ppsx]
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]
Berger, T., D. Nair, R. Rublack, J. M. Atlee, K. Czarnecki, and A. Wąsowski, "Three Cases of Feature-Based Variability Modeling in Industry", ACM/IEEE 17th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS), 2014. [pdf][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]
Diskin, Z., A. Wider, H. Gholizadeh, and K. Czarnecki, A Taxonomic Space for Increasingly Symmetric Model Synchronization, , no. GSDLab TR, 2014-02-01, Waterloo, The University of Waterloo, GSDLab , 02/2014. [pdf]
Zulkoski, E., C. Kleynhans, M-H. Yee, D. Rayside, and K. Czarnecki, "Optimizing Alloy for Multi-Objective Software Product Line Configuration", ABZ, Toulouse, France, Springer-Verlag, 06/2014. [pdf]
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]
Guo, J., E. Zulkoski, R. Olaechea, D. Rayside, K. Czarnecki, S. Apel, and J. M. Atlee, "Scaling Exact Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization by Parallelization", 29th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Västerås, Sweden, ACM, to appear, 2014. [pdf][pdf]
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Our lab is not only about research: we do a lot of development using Java, Python, Javascript, Haskell and other languages in combination with advanced libraries and frameworks. This development experience was very helpful during my job interviews, and employers were impressed by the projects we develop here in the lab.

Alexandr Murashkin

Everyone in our lab is free to work on what they want to work on. Encouragement and constructive feed back is always available.

Rehan Rauf