2026 Thomas Thüm: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	35	11597	11265	571	558	202	6055

Overview

Thomas Thüm is affiliated with the University of Ulm in Germany and specializes in computer science with a focus on several subfields and main topics. Their work spans across artificial intelligence, information systems, software, computer networks and communications, as well as computational theory and mathematics.

The primary research topics covered by Thomas Thüm include:

Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Software Engineering Research
Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
Formal Methods in Verification
Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
Software System Performance and Reliability

Thomas Thüm has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
Empirical Software Engineering
Software & Systems Modeling

Among recent research papers, some notable works are:

"Evaluating state-of-the-art # SAT solvers on industrial configuration spaces," 2023, published in Empirical Software Engineering
"UVL: Feature modelling with the Universal Variability Language," 2025, published in Journal of Systems and Software
"Uvl: Feature Modelling with the Universal Variability Language," 2024, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
"On the benefits of knowledge compilation for feature-model analyses," 2023, published in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
"Guiding the evolution of product-line configurations," 2021, published in Software & Systems Modeling

Thomas Thüm has collaborated frequently with multiple coauthors, including:

Ina Schaefer
Chico Sundermann
Tobias Heß
Sebastian Krieter
Elias Kuiter

Best Publications

FeatureIDE: An extensible framework for feature-oriented software development

Thomas Thüm;Christian Kästner;Fabian Benduhn;Jens Meinicke

632
Citations
A Classification and Survey of Analysis Strategies for Software Product Lines

Thomas Thüm;Sven Apel;Christian Kästner;Ina Schaefer

578
Citations
Reasoning about edits to feature models

Thomas Thum;Don Batory;Christian Kastner

483
Citations
FeatureIDE: A tool framework for feature-oriented software development

Christian Kastner;Thomas Thum;Gunter Saake;Janet Feigenspan

321
Citations
Mastering Software Variability with FeatureIDE

Jens Meinicke;Thomas Thüm;Reimar Schröter;Fabian Benduhn

228
Citations
Abstract Features in Feature Modeling

Thomas Thum;Christian Kastner;Sebastian Erdweg;Norbert Siegmund

216
Citations
Type checking annotation-based product lines

Christian Kästner;Sven Apel;Thomas Thüm;Gunter Saake

207
Citations
On essential configuration complexity: measuring interactions in highly-configurable systems

Jens Meinicke;Chu-Pan Wong;Christian Kastner;Thomas Thum

131
Citations
Effective product-line testing using similarity-based product prioritization

Mustafa Al-Hajjaji;Thomas Thüm;Malte Lochau;Jens Meinicke

116
Citations
Similarity-based prioritization in software product-line testing

Mustafa Al-Hajjaji;Thomas Thüm;Jens Meinicke;Malte Lochau

115
Citations
Multi-dimensional variability modeling

Marko Rosenmüller;Norbert Siegmund;Thomas Thüm;Gunter Saake

113
Citations
Family-based deductive verification of software product lines

Thomas Thüm;Ina Schaefer;Sven Apel;Martin Hentschel

111
Citations
IncLing: efficient product-line testing using incremental pairwise sampling

Mustafa Al-Hajjaji;Sebastian Krieter;Thomas Thüm;Malte Lochau

102
Citations
Feature-interaction detection based on feature-based specifications

Sven Apel;Alexander Von Rhein;Thomas ThüM;Christian KäStner

98
Citations
Analysis Strategies for Software Product Lines

Thomas Thüm;Sven Apel;Christian Kästner;Martin Kuhlemann

91
Citations
Variant-preserving refactoring in feature-oriented software product lines

Sandro Schulze;Thomas Thüm;Martin Kuhlemann;Gunter Saake

86
Citations
Is there a mismatch between real-world feature models and product-line research?

Alexander Knüppel;Thomas Thüm;Stephan Mennicke;Jens Meinicke

84
Citations
Feature-model interfaces: the highway to compositional analyses of highly-configurable systems

Reimar Schroter;Sebastian Krieter;Thomas Thum;Fabian Benduhn

75
Citations
A classification of product sampling for software product lines

Mahsa Varshosaz;Mustafa Al-Hajjaji;Thomas Thüm;Tobias Runge

73
Citations
Explaining anomalies in feature models

Matthias Kowal;Sofia Ananieva;Thomas Thüm

72
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gunter Saake Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Ina Schaefer Technische Universität Braunschweig

Sven Apel Saarland University

Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University

Norbert Siegmund Leipzig University

Gary T. Leavens University of Central Florida

Patrick Heymans University of Namur

Don Batory The University of Texas at Austin

Eric Bodden University of Paderborn

Lars Grunske Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

External Links

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