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Recent publications
- Ada Slupczynski,
Beate Krauze,
Simon Hacks (2026)
Advancing Enterprise Architecture Debt: A Work System TheoryPerspective on Modernization and Resilience. In Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly (CSIMQ), RTU Press, Riga, Latvia, Vol. 46, No. March/April 2026, ISSN 2255-9922, 67-96.
DOI URL - Simon Hacks,
Ada Slupczynski (2026)
Advancing Enterprise Architecture Debt: Insights from Work System Theory. In Rébecca Deneckère, Marite Kirikova, Janis Grabis (eds.) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research - 24th International Conference on Business Informatics Research, BIR 2025, Riga, Latvia, September 17-19, 2025, Proceedings, Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Vol. 562, ISBN 978-3-032-04375-7, 107-123.
DOI PDF - Alex Mattukat,
Florian Braun,
Horst Lichter (2026)
Can ChatGPT Generate Realistic Synthetic System Requirement Specifications? Results of a Case Study. In Computing Research Repository (CoRR), Vol. 2603.09335, arXiv.
DOI URL - Nils Wild (2026)
Interaction-based Integration Testing of Component-based Software Systems. PhD thesis, Shaker Verlag, Düren, Aachener Informatik-Berichte, Software Engineering, No. 64, ISBN 978-3-8191-0533-3, RWTH Aachen University. PDF - Selin Coban,
Miguel Perez,
Horst Lichter (2026)
Proto-ML: An IDE for ML Solution Prototyping (to be published). In 2025 IEEE/ACM Third IDE Workshop (IDE), May, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA. URL