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Computer Science
Netherlands
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
51
Citations
10814
World Ranking
5319
National Ranking
81

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Eelco Visser is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research work centers primarily around computer science, with a focus on several subfields including artificial intelligence, information systems, computational theory and mathematics, software, and hardware and architecture. The breadth of their research spans numerous main topics such as logic, programming, and type systems, model-driven software engineering techniques, parallel computing and optimization techniques, formal methods in verification, security and verification in computing, software engineering research, and distributed systems and fault tolerance.

The scientist has an extensive publication record, featuring important contributions in the following recent papers:

  • Intrinsically-typed definitional interpreters à la carte, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Language-parametric static semantic code completion, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Knowing when to ask: sound scheduling of name resolution in type checkers derived from declarative specifications, 2020, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Intrinsically typed compilation with nameless labels, 2021, Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Scope States: Guarding Safety of Name Resolution in Parallel Type Checkers, 2021, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

The venues in which these papers have appeared reflect the focus and impact of their work, including:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Software & Systems Modeling
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent collaborators in their research include the following coauthors:

  • Hendrik van Antwerpen
  • Casper Bach Poulsen
  • Arjen Rouvoet
  • Robbert Krebbers
  • Jasper Denkers

Over the course of their career, this scientist has contributed to around 39 publications within computer science, with nearly half related to artificial intelligence, indicating a strong specialization in this area alongside other computational and software engineering topics.

Best Publications

  • The spoofax language workbench: rules for declarative specification of languages and IDEs

    Lennart C.L. Kats;Eelco Visser

  • The ASF+SDF Meta-environment: A Component-Based Language Development Environment

    Mark G. J. van den Brand;Arie van Deursen;Jan Heering;H. A. de Jong

  • The Asf+Sdf Meta-Environment: A Component-Based Language Development Environment

    M.G.J. van den Brand;A. van Deursen;J. Heering;H.A. de Jong

  • Stratego: A Language for Program Transformation Based on Rewriting Strategies System Description of Stratego 0.5

    Eelco Visser

  • Stratego/XT 0.17. A language and toolset for program transformation

    Martin Bravenboer;Karl Trygve Kalleberg;Rob Vermaas;Eelco Visser

  • Program Transformation with Stratego/XT

    Eelco Visser

  • Syntax Definition for Language Prototyping

    E. Visser

  • Stratego: A Language for Program Transformation Based on Rewriting Strategies

    Eelco Visser

  • Program Transformation with Stratego/XT. Rules, Strategies, Tools, and Systems in Stratego/XT 0.9

    Eelco Visser

  • Building program optimizers with rewriting strategies

    Eelco Visser;Zine-el-Abidine Benaissa;Andrew Tolmach

  • Concrete syntax for objects: domain-specific language embedding and assimilation without restrictions

    Martin Bravenboer;Eelco Visser

  • WebDSL: A Case Study in Domain-Specific Language Engineering

    Eelco Visser

  • Disambiguation Filters for Scannerless Generalized LR Parsers

    Mark G. J. van den Brand;Jeroen Scheerder;Jurgen J. Vinju;Eelco Visser

  • Scannerless Generalized-LR Parsing

    E. Visser

  • A Survey of Rewriting Strategies in Program Transformation Systems

    Eelco Visser

  • Meta-programming with Concrete Object Syntax

    Eelco Visser

  • The State of the Art in Language Workbenches. Conclusions from the Language Workbench Challenge

    Sebastian Erdweg;Tijs van der Storm;Tijs van der Storm;Markus Völter;Meinte Boersma

  • Generation of formatters for context-free languages

    Mark van den Brand;Eelco Visser

  • Evaluating and comparing language workbenches

    Sebastian Erdweg;Tijs van der Storm;Markus Völter;Laurence Tratt

  • A survey of strategies in rule-based program transformation systems

    Eelco Visser

Frequent Co-Authors

Joost Visser
Joost Visser Leiden University
Mark van den Brand
Mark van den Brand Eindhoven University of Technology
Klaus Ostermann
Klaus Ostermann University of Tübingen
William R. Cook
William R. Cook The University of Texas at Austin
Christian Kästner
Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Klint
Paul Klint Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Ralf Lämmel
Ralf Lämmel Facebook (United States)
Arie van Deursen
Arie van Deursen Delft University of Technology
Yannis Smaragdakis
Yannis Smaragdakis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Mira Mezini
Mira Mezini Technical University of Darmstadt

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