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Alexander Pretschner publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander Pretschner sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 286 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Alexander Pretschner D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander Pretschner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alexander Pretschner is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on computer science with a significant emphasis on information systems, software, computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, and sociology and political science.

Their work spans multiple subfields and topics, including:

  • Software reliability and analysis research
  • Network security and intrusion detection
  • Information and cyber security
  • Software testing and debugging techniques
  • Software engineering research
  • Human-automation interaction and safety
  • Ethics and social impacts of AI

Alexander Pretschner's recent published papers showcase research contributions across several venues. Notable recent works include:

  • Maat (2021), published in ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
  • Empowered and embedded: ethics and agile processes (2022), published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Defining adaptivity and logical architecture for engineering (smart) self-adaptive cyber-physical systems (2022), published in Information and Software Technology
  • A comparative, sociotechnical design perspective on Responsible Innovation: multidisciplinary research and education on digitized energy and Automated Vehicles (2021), published in Journal of Responsible Innovation
  • PR-SZZ: How pull requests can support the tracing of defects in software repositories (2022), presented at the IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER)

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Informatik-Spektrum
  • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security

Collaborations with other researchers form a significant part of their academic output. Frequent co-authors include Severin Kacianka, Sebastian Bănescu, Bianca Biebl, Valentin Zieglmeier, and Amjad Ibrahim.

Best Publications

  • A taxonomy of model-based testing approaches

    Mark Utting;Alexander Pretschner;Bruno Legeard

  • Model-Based Testing of Reactive Systems, Advanced Lectures

    Manfred Broy;Bengt Jonsson;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Martin Leucker

  • Ontology based personalized search

    A. Pretschner;S. Gauch

  • Software Engineering for Automotive Systems: A Roadmap

    A. Pretschner;M. Broy;I.H. Kruger;T. Stauner

  • Engineering Automotive Software

    M. Broy;I.H. Kruger;A. Pretschner;C. Salzmann

  • Distributed usage control

    Alexander Pretschner;Manuel Hilty;David Basin

  • One evaluation of model-based testing and its automation

    A. Pretschner;W. Prenninger;S. Wagner;C. Kühnel

  • A taxonomy of model-based testing

    Mark Utting;Alexander Pretschner;Bruno Legeard

  • A policy language for distributed usage control

    M. Hilty;A. Pretschner;D. Basin;C. Schaefer

  • Security Testing: A Survey

    Michael Felderer;Matthias Büchler;Martin Johns;Achim D. Brucker

  • On obligations

    Manuel Hilty;David Basin;Alexander Pretschner

  • Code obfuscation against symbolic execution attacks

    Sebastian Banescu;Christian Collberg;Vijay Ganesh;Zack Newsham

  • Model-Based Testing of Reactive Systems: Advanced Lectures (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

    Manfred Broy;Bengt Jonsson;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Martin Leucker

  • Model-Based Development of Embedded Systems

    Bernhard Schätz;Alexander Pretschner;Franz Huber;Jan Philipps

  • Model-based testing

    Alexander Pretschner

  • Methodological Issues in Model-Based Testing

    Alexander Pretschner;Jan Philipps

  • Model-based security testing: a taxonomy and systematic classification

    Michael Felderer;Philipp Zech;Ruth Breu;Matthias Büchler

  • An empirical study on the effectiveness of static C code analyzers for vulnerability detection

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  • Usage Control Enforcement: Present and Future

    A. Pretschner;M. Hilty;F. Schutz;C. Schaefer

  • Ethics in the Software Development Process: from Codes of Conduct to Ethical Deliberation

    Jan Gogoll;Niina Zuber;Severin Kacianka;Timo Greger

  • Model-based testing in practice

    Alexander Pretschner

  • Model-Based Testing of Reactive Systems, Advanced Lectures [The volume is the outcome of a research seminar that was held in Schloss Dagstuhl in January 2004]

    Manfred Broy;Bengt Jonsson;Joost-Pieter Katoen;Martin Leucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred Broy
Manfred Broy Technical University of Munich
Martin Leucker
Martin Leucker University of Lübeck
Bengt Jonsson
Bengt Jonsson Uppsala University
Joost-Pieter Katoen
Joost-Pieter Katoen RWTH Aachen University
David Basin
David Basin ETH Zurich
Bertrand Meyer
Bertrand Meyer Schaffhausen Institute of Technology
Susan Gauch
Susan Gauch University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Fabio Massacci
Fabio Massacci Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Florian Matthes
Florian Matthes Technical University of Munich
Stefan Wagner
Stefan Wagner University of Stuttgart

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