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

Book
Czarnecki, K., and U. Eisenecker, Generative Programming: Methods, Tools, and Applications, , Reading, MA, USA, Addison-Wesley, pp. 864, 2000.
Book Chapter
Czarnecki, K., N. J. Foster, Z. Hu, R. Lämmel, A. Schurr, and J. F. Terwilliger, "Bidirectional Transformations: A Cross-Discipline Perspective, GRACE Meeting Notes, State of the Art, and Outlook", Theory and Practice of Model Transformations, Second International Conference, ICMT 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, June 29-30, 2009. Proceedings, vol. 5563, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, pp. 260 - 283, 2009. [pdf]
Czarnecki, K., and U. Eisenecker, "Components and Generative Programming", Software Engineering — ESEC/FSE ’99, vol. 1687, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, pp. 2 - 19, 1999. [pdf]
Antkiewicz, M., and K. Czarnecki, "Design Space of Heterogeneous Synchronization", Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering II, International Summer School, GTTSE 2007, Braga, Portugal, July 2-7, 2007, Revised Papers, vol. 5235, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, pp. 3 - 46, 2008. [pdf]
Czarnecki, K., "Domain Engineering", Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, Second Edition, 2002.
Czarnecki, K., T. O'Donnell, John, J. Striegnitz, and W. Taha, "DSL Implementation in MetaOCaml, Template Haskell, and C++", Domain-Specific Program Generation, International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, March 23-28, 2003, Revised Papers, vol. 3016, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, pp. 51-72, 2003.
Czarnecki, K., J-M. Favre, M. Gogolla, and T. Mens, "Essentials of the 4th UML/MoDELS Workshop in Software Model Engineering (WiSME’2005)", Satellite Events at the MoDELS 2005 Conference, vol. 3844, Berlin/Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, pp. 151 - 158, 2005.
Cleenewerck, T., K. Czarnecki, J. Striegnitz, and M. Völter, "Evolution and Reuse of Language Specifications for DSLs (ERLS)", Object-Oriented Technology. ECOOP 2004 Workshop Reader, vol. 3344, Berlin / Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, pp. 187-201, 2005.
Czarnecki, K., K. Østerbye, and M. Völter, "Generative Programming", Object-Oriented Technology ECOOP 2002 Workshop Reader, vol. 2548, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, pp. 15 - 29, 2002.
Barth, B., G. Butler, K. Czarnecki, and U. Eisenecker, "Generative Programming", Object-Oriented Technology, vol. 2323, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 135 - 149, 2001.
Czarnecki, K., U. Eisenecker, R. Gluck, D. Vandevoorde, and T. Veldhuizen, "Generative Programming and Active Libraries", Generic Programming, vol. 1766, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, pp. 25 - 39, 2000.
Czarnecki, K., "Generative Programming and Software System Families, Abstract of Invited Talk", Semantics, Applications, and Implementation of Program Generation, vol. 2196, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, pp. 1 - 1, 2001.
Czarnecki, K., "Overview of Generative Software Development", Unconventional Programming Paradigms (UPP) 2004, 15-17 September, Mont Saint-Michel, France, Revised Papers, vol. 3566: Springer-Verlag, pp. 326-341, 2004. [pdf]
Case
Branco, M., Y. Xiong, K. Czarnecki, A. Lau, P. Coulthard, J. Kuester, and H. Voelzer, "Quick Consistency Management in BPM", IBM CASCON 2011, 2011.
Chart
Branco, M., Y. Xiong, K. Czarnecki, A. Lau, and P. Coulthard, "Friendly Change Extraction for BPMN Workflows", IBM TechConnect, Markham, ON, Canada, IBM, 05/2011. [pdf]
Conference Paper
Czarnecki, K., D. Zhang, and K. Lano, "An Animation Tool for Supporting Specification-Based Software Architectures", The 1995 Monterey Workshop on Increasing the Practical Impact of Formal Methods for Computer Aided Software Development: Specification-Based Architectures, Monterey, California, USA, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, 09/1995.
Murashkin, A., L S. Azevedo, J. Guo, E. Zulkoski, J. Liang, K. Czarnecki, and D. Parker, "Automated Decomposition and Allocation of Automotive Safety Integrity Levels Using Exact Solvers", SAE 2015 World Congress & Exhibition, Detroit, Michigan, USA, SAE, 04/2015.
White, J., D. C. Schmidt, K. Czarnecki, C. Wienands, G. Lenz, E. Wuchner, and L. Fiege, "Automated Model-Based Configuration of Enterprise Java Applications", 11th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2007), Annapolis, USA, IEEE, pp. 301 - 301, 2007. [pdf]
Antkiewicz, M., T. Tonelli Bartolomei, and K. Czarnecki, "Automatic Extraction of Framework-Specific Models From Framework-Based Application Code", 22nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 11/2007. [pdf]
Czarnecki, K., U. Eisenecker, and P. Steyaert, "Beyond Objects: Generative Programming", ECOOP’97 Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Programming, Jyväskylä, Finland, 06/1997.
Czarnecki, K., N. J. Foster, Z. Hu, R. Laemmel, A. Schuerr, and J. F. Terwilliger, "Bidirectional Transformations: A Cross-Discipline Perspective", International Conference of Model Transformation (ICMT): Springer-Verlag, pp. 260-283, 2010. [pdf]
Czarnecki, K., and C H P. Kim, "Cardinality-based feature modeling and constraints: a progress report", International Workshop on Software Factories at OOPSLA'05, San Diego, California, USA, ACM, 2005.
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]
Czarnecki, K., R. Hanselmann, U. Eisenecker, and W. Kopf, "ClassExpert: a knowledge-based assistant to support reuse by specialization and modification in Smalltalk", Fourth IEEE International Conference on Software Reuse, Orlando, USA, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 188 - 194, 1996.
Czarnecki, K., and S. Helsen, "Classification of Model Transformation Approaches", 2nd OOPSLA’03 Workshop on Generative Techniques in the Context of MDA, Anaheim, CA, USA, 2003.
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