Topic T2B: Evolution

Summary

• Requested in 24/26 calls
• Requested in 19/19 pure calls (2008–2026 with the longest streak of 19 years)
• Primary tagged in 11/26 paper bundles
• Primary tagged in 10/19 pure proceedings (2008–2023 with the longest streak of 6 years)
• Secondary tagged in 16/26 paper bundles
• Secondary tagged in 13/19 pure proceedings (2008–2025 with the longest streak of 6 years)
• Top 3 co-occurring topics:
  • T4A: Workbenches (17 times)
  • T4B: Horizontal Transformation (16 times)
  • T3B: Transformation Languages (13 times)
• Top 3 contributors:
  • Markus Herrmannsdörfer (4 times)
  • Alfonso Pierantonio (4 times)
  • Guido Wachsmuth (3 times)

List of papers (53)

• (ATEM 2006 SI) Ontological Approach for the Semantic Recovery of Traceability Links between Software Artefacts (Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Juergen Rilling, Volker Haarslev) T5G T3E T2B T5E
• (SLE 2008) Neon: A Library for Language Usage Analysis (Jurriaan Hage, Peter van Keeken) T4A T5B T2B
• (SLE 2008) Towards an Incremental Update Approach for Concrete Textual Syntaxes for UUID-Based Model Repositories (Thomas Goldschmidt) T2B T4A T1D
• (SLE 2008) A Case Study in Grammar Engineering (Tiago L. Alves, Joost Visser) T6A T2B T5C
• (SLE 2008) The Java Programmer’s Phrase Book (Einar W. Høst, Bjarte M. Østvold) T5E T5B T2B
• (SLE 2009) Language Evolution in Practice: The History of GMF (Markus Herrmannsdörfer, Daniel Ratiu, Guido Wachsmuth) T2B T4A T2A
• (SLE 2009) A Novel Approach to Semi-automated Evolution of DSML Model Transformation (Tihamér Levendovszky, Daniel Balasubramanian, Anantha Narayanan, Gábor Karsai) T2B T3B T4B
• (SLE 2009) Study of an API Migration for Two XML APIs (Thiago Tonelli Bartolomei, Krzysztof Czarnecki, Ralf Lämmel, Tijs van der Storm) T3F T2B T4B
• (SLE 2009) Towards Dynamic Evolution of Domain Specific Languages (Paul R. Laird, Stephen Barrett) T2B T3C T4A
• (SLE 2010) Metamodel Usage Analysis for Identifying Metamodel Improvements (Markus Herrmannsdörfer, Daniel Ratiu, Maximilian Koegel) T5B T2B T5E
• (SLE 2010) Support for the Evolution of C++ Generic Functions (Peter Pirkelbauer, Damian Dechev, Bjarne Stroustrup) T2B T3D T1D
• (SLE 2010) Automated Co-evolution of GMF Editor Models (Davide Di Ruscio, Ralf Lämmel, Alfonso Pierantonio) T2B T4B T4A
• (SLE 2010) An Extensive Catalog of Operators for the Coupled Evolution of Metamodels and Models (Markus Herrmannsdörfer, Sander D. Vermolen, Guido Wachsmuth) T2B T4B T5B
• (SLE 2010) JTL: A Bidirectional and Change Propagating Transformation Language (Antonio Cicchetti, Davide Di Ruscio, Romina Eramo, Alfonso Pierantonio) T3B T4B T2B
• (SLE 2010) COPE — A Workbench for the Coupled Evolution of Metamodels and Models (Markus Herrmannsdörfer) T4A T2B T4B
• (SLE 2011) An Algorithm for Layout Preservation in Refactoring Transformations (Maartje de Jonge, Eelco Visser) T4B T3B T2B
• (SLE 2011) Cloning in DSLs: Experiments with OCL (Robert Tairas, Jordi Cabot) T2B T3C T5E
• (SLE 2011) Reconstructing Complex Metamodel Evolution (Sander D. Vermolen, Guido Wachsmuth, Eelco Visser) T2B T2A T4B
• (SLE 2012) Analysing Contributions (Oege de Moor) T4A T5B T2B T6B
• (SLE 2012) Model Transformation Co-evolution: A Semi-automatic Approach (Jokin García, Óscar Díaz, Maider Azanza) T2B T3B T4A
• (SLE 2012) Guided Merging of Sequence Diagrams (Magdalena Widl, Armin Biere, Petra Kaufmann, Uwe Egly, Marijn J. H. Heule, Gerti Kappel, Martina Seidl, Hans Tompits) T2B T4B T5D
• (SLE 2013) Software Evolution to Domain-Specific Languages (Stefan Fehrenbach, Sebastian Erdweg, Klaus Ostermann) T2B T3C T3B
• (SLE 2013) Micropatterns in Grammars (Vadim Zaytsev) T5B T3A T2B
• (SLE 2013) Towards Controlling Refinements of Statecharts (Conner Hansen, Eugene Syriani, Levi Lúcio) T2B T5D T4C T3C
• (SLE 2015) What’s the Value of an End User? Platforms and Research: The Case of Pharo and Moose (Stéphane Ducasse) T4A T3D T5B T2B
• (SLE 2015) An Empirical Study on Simplification of Business Process Modeling Languages (Eric Umuhoza, Marco Brambilla, Davide Ripamonti, Jordi Cabot) T5E T1A T2B T3C
• (SLE 2015) Managing Uncertainty in Bidirectional Model Transformations (Romina Eramo, Alfonso Pierantonio, Gianni Rosa) T4B T5D T2B T3B
• (SLE 2015) Modular Capture Avoidance for Program Transformations (Nico Ritschel, Sebastian Erdweg) T3B T5D T1D T2B
• (SLE 2016) Parsing and Reflective Printing, Bidirectionally (Zirun Zhu, Yongzhe Zhang, Hsiang-Shang Ko, Pedro Martins, João Saraiva, Zhenjiang Hu) T3B T3C T4B T2B
• (SLE 2016) MetaEdit+ for Collaborative Language Engineering and Language Use (Juha-Pekka Tolvanen) T4A T2B T6B
• (SLE 2016) Coupled Software Transformations — Revisited (Ralf Lämmel) T2B T3B T5G T1D
• (SLE 2017) Towards a Taxonomy of Grammar Smells (Mats Stijlaart, Vadim Zaytsev) T5B T2B T3A T4A
• (SLE 2017) Deep Priority Conflicts in the Wild: A Pilot Study (Luís Eduardo de Souza Amorim, Michael J. Steindorfer, Eelco Visser) T5E T5B T2B T3A
• (SLE 2017) Virtual Textual Model Composition for Supporting Versioning and Aspect-Orientation (Robert Bill, Patrick Neubauer, Manuel Wimmer) T1D T2B T4B T5H
• (SLE 2017) A Requirements Engineering Approach for Usability-Driven DSL Development (Ankica Barišić, Dominique Blouin, Vasco Amaral, Miguel Goulão) T5A T5H T3C T2B
• (SLE 2017 SI) Software meta-language engineering and CBS (Peter D. Mosses) T3A T1C T1E T2B
• (SLE 2018 SI) Relational Reference Attribute Grammars: Improving continuous model validation (Johannes Mey, René Schöne, Görel Hedin, Emma Söderberg, Thomas Kühn, Niklas Fors, Jesper Öqvist, Uwe Aßmann) T3A T4A T2B T5E
• (SLE 2019) Transactional Editing: Giving ACID to Programmers (Friedrich Steimann, Nils Kurowsky) T2B
• (SLE 2021) There is More Than One Way to Zen Your Python (Aamir Farooq, Vadim Zaytsev) T1A T3D T2B
• (SLE 2022) BatakJava: An Object-Oriented Programming Language with Versions (Luthfan Anshar Lubis, Yudai Tanabe, Tomoyuki Aotani, Hidehiko Masuhara) T2B T1A T3D
• (SLE 2023) Exceptions all Over the Shop: Modular, Customizable, Language-Independent Exception Handling Layer (Walter Cazzola, Luca Favalli) T1D T1C T2B
• (SLE 2023) Coccinelle: Impact and Internals (Julia Lawall) T3B T2B T6B T4A
• (SLE 2023) Automated Extraction of Grammar Optimization Rule Configurations for Metamodel-Grammar Co-evolution (Weixing Zhang, Regina Hebig, Daniel Strüber, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer) T2B T5B T4B
• (SLE 2024) There Is Only One Time in Software (Language) Engineering! (Benoît Combemale) T6D T2B T2C T6F
• (SLE 2024) Concrete Syntax Metapatterns (Luka Miljak, Casper Bach Poulsen, Rosilde Corvino) T4B T3B T2B T4A
• (SLE 2024) Design of Software Representation Languages: A Historical Perspective (Anthony Ira Wasserman) T1A T2B T2E T6D
• (SLE 2024) Bugfox: A Trace-Based Analyzer for Localizing the Cause of Software Regression in JavaScript (Yuefeng Hu, Hiromu Ishibe, Feng Dai, Tetsuro Yamazaki, Shigeru Chiba) T5C T2B T4B T5E
• (SLE 2024 SI) Supporting reusable model migration with Edelta (Lorenzo Bettini, Amleto Di Salle, Ludovico Iovino, Alfonso Pierantonio) T2B T3B T4A T1E
• (SLE 2024 SI) Supporting meta-model-based language evolution and rapid prototyping with automated grammar transformation (Weixing Zhang, Jörg Holtmann, Daniel Strüber, Regina Hebig, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer) T2B T3C T3B T4A
• (SLE 2025) Optimal Language Design is Hard: A Case Study in ECMAScript (JavaScript) Standardization (Philipp Riemer, Yury Nikulin, Ashley Claymore, Mikhail Barash) T1A T2B T4A
• (SLE 2025) Variability Fault Localization by Abstract Interpretation and its Application to SPL Repair (Aleksandar S. Dimovski) T2C T5D T2B
• (SLE 2025) (Semantic) Feature Model Differences with (Q)SAT (Simone Heisinger, Maximilian Heisinger, Martina Seidl) T2C T5D T2B
• (SLE 2025) Detecting Resource Leaks on Android with Alpakka (Gustavo Soares Santos, João Bispo, Alexandra Mendes) T4B T2B T5E

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