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Overview

Thorsten Berger is affiliated with Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. Their research spans several interconnected areas within Computer Science, with a strong focus on Software Engineering.

The main fields of study include:

  • Computer Science

Within this broad field, their work emphasizes subfields such as:

  • Information Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture

Thorsten Berger's research addresses numerous topics, including:

  • Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques
  • Software System Performance and Reliability
  • Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services

Their recent publications reflect these interests. Selected papers include:

  • The state of adoption and the challenges of systematic variability management in industry (2020), Empirical Software Engineering
  • Behavior Trees and State Machines in Robotics Applications (2023), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Concepts of variation control systems (2020), Journal of Systems and Software
  • Asset Management in Machine Learning: State-of-research and State-of-practice (2022), ACM Computing Surveys
  • Reuse and maintenance practices among divergent forks in three software ecosystems (2022), Empirical Software Engineering

They have frequently published in the following venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Empirical Software Engineering
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Journal of Systems and Software

Throughout their career, Thorsten Berger has collaborated extensively. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Daniel Strüber
  • Patrizio Pelliccione
  • Sven Peldszus
  • Wardah Mahmood
  • Jacob Krüger

Best Publications

  • A survey of variability modeling in industrial practice

    Thorsten Berger;Ralf Rublack;Divya Nair;Joanne M. Atlee

  • Reverse engineering feature models

    Steven She;Rafael Lotufo;Thorsten Berger;Andrzej Wasowski

  • Variability-aware parsing in the presence of lexical macros and conditional compilation

    Christian Kästner;Paolo G. Giarrusso;Tillmann Rendel;Sebastian Erdweg

  • An Exploratory Study of Cloning in Industrial Software Product Lines

    Y. Dubinsky;J. Rubin;T. Berger;S. Duszynski

  • Evolution of the linux kernel variability model

    Rafael Lotufo;Steven She;Thorsten Berger;Krzysztof Czarnecki

  • A Study of Variability Models and Languages in the Systems Software Domain

    Thorsten Berger;Steven She;Rafael Lotufo;Andrzej Wasowski

  • Variability modeling in the real: a perspective from the operating systems domain

    Thorsten Berger;Steven She;Rafael Lotufo;Andrzej Wąsowski

  • What is a feature?: a qualitative study of features in industrial software product lines

    Thorsten Berger;Daniela Lettner;Julia Rubin;Paul Grünbacher

  • The Variability Model of The Linux Kernel.

    Steven She;Rafael Lotufo;Thorsten Berger;Andrzej Wasowski

  • A Large-Scale Empirical Study on Software Reuse in Mobile Apps

    Israel J. Mojica;Bram Adams;Meiyappan Nagappan;Steffen Dienst

  • Mining configuration constraints: static analyses and empirical results

    Sarah Nadi;Thorsten Berger;Christian Kästner;Krzysztof Czarnecki

  • Towards User-Friendly Projectional Editors

    Markus Voelter;Janet Siegmund;Thorsten Berger;Bernd Kolb

  • Where Do Configuration Constraints Stem From? An Extraction Approach and an Empirical Study

    Sarah Nadi;Thorsten Berger;Christian Kastner;Krzysztof Czarnecki

  • Flexible product line engineering with a virtual platform

    Michał Antkiewicz;Wenbin Ji;Thorsten Berger;Krzysztof Czarnecki

  • Variability Mechanisms in Software Ecosystems

    Thorsten Berger;Rolf-Helge Pfeiffer;Reinhard Tartler;Steffen Dienst

  • Examining the Rating System Used in Mobile-App Stores

    Israel J. Mojica Ruiz;Meiyappan Nagappan;Bram Adams;Thorsten Berger

  • Feature-to-code mapping in two large product lines

    Thorsten Berger;Steven She;Rafael Lotufo;Krzysztof Czarnecki

  • An Examination of the Current Rating System used in Mobile App Stores

    Israel Mojica Ruiz;Meiyappan Nagappan;Bram Adams;Thorsten Berger

  • GeoScenario: An Open DSL for Autonomous Driving Scenario Representation

    Rodrigo Queiroz;Thorsten Berger;Krzysztof Czarnecki

  • The state of adoption and the challenges of systematic variability management in industry

    Thorsten Berger;Jan-Philipp Steghöfer;Tewfik Ziadi;Jacques Robin

  • Maintaining feature traceability with embedded annotations

    Wenbin Ji;Thorsten Berger;Michal Antkiewicz;Krzysztof Czarnecki

  • Specification Patterns for Robotic Missions

    Claudio Menghi;Christos Tsigkanos;Patrizio Pelliccione;Carlo Ghezzi

Frequent Co-Authors

Krzysztof Czarnecki
Krzysztof Czarnecki University of Waterloo
Andrzej Wąsowski
Andrzej Wąsowski IT University of Copenhagen
Bram Adams
Bram Adams Queen's University
Ahmed E. Hassan
Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University
Meiyappan Nagappan
Meiyappan Nagappan University of Waterloo
Sven Apel
Sven Apel Saarland University
Ralf Lämmel
Ralf Lämmel Facebook (United States)
Christian Kästner
Christian Kästner Carnegie Mellon University
Paul Grünbacher
Paul Grünbacher Johannes Kepler University of Linz
Carlo Ghezzi
Carlo Ghezzi Polytechnic University of Milan

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