Highlights (all types):

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Kristof Meixner, Sandra Greiner, Antonio Manuel Gutiérrez Fernández, Rick Rabiser: Managing Control Software Variability in Cyber-Physical Production Systems: The V4rdiac Approach. Journal of Systems and Software, 2025 (accepted for publication).

* David Benavides, Chico Sundermann, Kevin Feichtinger, José A. Galindo, Rick Rabiser, Thomas Thüm: UVL: Feature Modelling with the Universal Variability Language. Journal of Systems and Software, 2025 (accepted for publication).

* Kristof Meixner, Kevin Feichtinger, Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Sandra Greiner, Hannes Marcher, Rick Rabiser, Stefan Biffl: Variability Modeling of Products, Processes, and Resources in Cyber-Physical Production Systems Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window, Journal of Systems and Software 211, 2024.

* Bianca Wiesmayr, Alois Zoitl, Rick Rabiser: Assessing the Usefulness of a Visual Programming IDE for Large-Scale Automation Software, opens an external URL in a new window. Software and Systems Modeling, 2023.

* Lisa Sonnleithner, Bianca Wiesmayr, Antonio Gutierrez, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Complexity of Structured Text in IEC 61499 Function Blocks: A Survey, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-8.

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Antonio Manuel Gutierrez Fernandez, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Managing Cyber-Physical Production Systems Variability using V4rdiac: Industrial Experiences, opens an external URL in a new window. 27th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2023), Toyko, Japan, ACM, 2023, pp. 223-233.

* Lisa Sonnleithner, Philipp Bauer, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Applying Visualization Concepts to Large-Scale Software Systems in Industrial Automation, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 10th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2022), Limassol, Cyprus, IEEE, 2022, pp. 182-186.

* Markus Unterdechler, Antonio Gutierrez, Lisa Sonnleithner, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Identifying repeating patterns in IEC 61499 systems with machine learning, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2022), Stuttgart, Germany, IEEE, 2022, pp. 1-8.

* Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Eva-Maria Neumann, Juliane Fischer, Marga Marcos, Elisabet Estévez Estévez, Giacomo Barbieri, Lisa Sonnleithner, Rick Rabiser: Automation Software Architecture in CPPS – Definition, Challenges and Research Potentials, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2022), 2022, pp. 1-8.

* Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Eva-Maria Neumann, Alois Zoitl, Antonio M. Gutierrez Fernandez, Rick Rabiser, Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah: An International Case Study on Control Software Development in Large-Scale Plant Manufacturing Companies of One Industrial Sector at Different Locations, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2021), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1-8.

Journals:

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Kristof Meixner, Sandra Greiner, Antonio Manuel Gutiérrez Fernández, Rick Rabiser: Managing Control Software Variability in Cyber-Physical Production Systems: The V4rdiac Approach. Journal of Systems and Software, 2025 (accepted for publication).

* David Benavides, Chico Sundermann, Kevin Feichtinger, José A. Galindo, Rick Rabiser, Thomas Thüm: UVL: Feature Modelling with the Universal Variability Language. Journal of Systems and Software, 2025 (accepted for publication).

* Antonio Manuel Gutiérrez, Ana Eva Chaćon-Luna, David Benavides, Lidia Fuentes, Rick Rabiser: Variability Management and Software Product Line Knowledge in Software Companies, opens an external URL in a new window. Journal of Systems and Software 216, 2024.

* Kristof Meixner, Kevin Feichtinger, Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Sandra Greiner, Hannes Marcher, Rick Rabiser, Stefan Biffl: Variability Modeling of Products, Processes, and Resources in Cyber-Physical Production Systems Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window, Journal of Systems and Software 211, 2024.

* Lisa Sonnleithner, Antonio Gutiérrez, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Bad Smells in Steuerungssoftware für automatisierte Produktionssysteme, opens an external URL in a new window. at-Automatisierungstechnik, vol. 71(6), 2023, pp. 413-422.

* Stefan Fischer, Claus Klammer, Antonio Gutierrez, Rick Rabiser, Rudolf Ramler: Testing of Highly Configurable Cyber-Physical Systems - Results from a Two-Phase Multiple Case Study, opens an external URL in a new window. Journal of Systems and Software 199, 2023.

* Bianca Wiesmayr, Alois Zoitl, Rick Rabiser: Assessing the Usefulness of a Visual Programming IDE for Large-Scale Automation Software, opens an external URL in a new window. Software and Systems Modeling, 2023.

* Kevin Feichtinger, Kristof Meixner, Felix Rinker, István Koren, Holger Eichelberger, Tonja Heinemann, Jörg Holtmann, Marco Konersmann, Judith Michael, Eva-Maria Neumann, Jérôme Pfeiffer, Rick Rabiser, Matthias Riebisch, Klaus Schmid: Software in Cyberphysikalischen Produktionssystemen: Herausforderungen zur Umsetzung in der Industrie, opens an external URL in a new window. atp Magazin, Ausgabe 4, 2023, pp. 62-68.

* Antonio Gutierrez, Lisa Sonnleithner, Alois Zoitl, and Rick Rabiser: Ansätze zur Beherrschung der Variabilität in Software-intensiven Cyber-Physischen Produktionssystemen, opens an external URL in a new window. e & i Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, vol. 138, pp. 321-329, 2021.

Conferences (incl. collocated workshops):

* Martin Becker, Rick Rabiser, Goetz Botterweck: Not Quite There Yet: Remaining Challenges in Systems and Software Product Line Engineering as Perceived by Industry Practitioners. Software Engineering (SE 2025), GI, 2025. (accepted for publication)

* Kristof Meixner, Kevin Feichtinger, Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Sandra Greiner, Hannes Marcher, Rick Rabiser, Stefan Biffl: Variability Modeling of Products, Processes, and Resources in Cyber-Physical Production Systems Engineering. Software Engineering (SE 2025), GI, 2025. (accepted for publication)

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Sandra Greiner, Kevin Feichtinger, Alois Zoitl, Rick Rabiser: Managing Variability of Cyber-Physical Production Systems: Towards Consistency Management, opens an external URL in a new window. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, First International Workshop on Model Management (MoM), ACM, 2024, pp. 945-949.

* Anna-Lena Hager, Shubham Sharma, Lisa Sonnleithner: Variability-Driven Knowledge Discovery in IEC 61499 Systems, opens an external URL in a new window. In 29th IEEE Int Conf. on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA). Padova, Italy, IEEE, 2024.

* Dunja Životin, Lisa Sonnleithner, Alois Zoitl: Deodorant for Shotgun Surgery Bad Smell in IEC 61499-based Control Software, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2024), Padova, Italy, IEEE, 2024.

* Shubham Sharma, Dunja Životin, Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Lisa Sonnleithner, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Variability Extraction Methodologies for Developing Reusable Control Software Artifacts in IEC 61499, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2024), Padova, Italy, IEEE, 2024.

* Tarik Terzimehic, Alois Zoitl: Mitigating Conflicts in Architectural Design Decisions for Evolving Manufacturing Systems: Evaluation and Recommendations for Practitioners, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2024), Padova, Italy, IEEE, 2024.

* Rick Rabiser: Industry Adoption of UVL: What We Will Need, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2024), MODEVAR Workshop, ACM, 2024, pp. 46-49.

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Rick Rabiser: Towards a Product Configuration Representation for the Universal Variability Language, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2024), MODEVAR Workshop, ACM, 2024, pp. 50-54.

* Alexander Stummer, Anna-Lena Hager, Rick Rabiser: Towards a Flexible Approach for Variability Mining, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2024), Re:Volution Workshop, ACM, 2024, pp. 75-81.

* Martin Becker, Rick Rabiser, Goetz Botterweck: Not Quite There Yet: Remaining Challenges in Systems and Software Product Line Engineering as Perceived by Industry Practitioners, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2024), Luxembourg, Sept 2-6, 2024, pp. 179-190.

* Shubham Sharma, Anna-Lena Hager, Alois Zoitl: Modularization Guidelines to support Control Software Variability in IEC 61499, opens an external URL in a new window. 6th SECPPS Workshop, co-located with SE 2024 at JKU Linz, Austria, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2024. pp. 157-168.

* Prankur Agarwal, Kevin Feichtinger, Klaus Schmid, Holger Eichelberger, Rick Rabiser: On the Challenges of Transforming UVL to IVML, opens an external URL in a new window. Sixth International Workshop on Languages for Modelling Variability (MODEVAR 2024), colocated with VaMoS 2024, Bern, Switzerland, Feb 7-9, 2024.

* Stefan Klikovits, Alessio Gambi, Deepak Dhungana, Rick Rabiser. Leveraging Software Product Lines for Testing Autonomous Vehicles, opens an external URL in a new window. 18th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2024), Bern, Switzerland, Feb 7-9, 2024, pp. 56-60.

* Kristof Meixner, Kevin Feichtinger, Sandra Greiner, Rick Rabiser. On Configuration Sequences in Feature Models, opens an external URL in a new window. 18th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2024), Bern, Switzerland, Feb 7-9, 2024, pp. 146-148.

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Maya Retno Ayu Setyautami, Ilma Ainur Rohma, Eko Kuswardono Budiardjo. Managing Customizable User Interface for Web Application Product Lines using Delta Modeling, opens an external URL in a new window. 18th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2024), Bern, Switzerland, Feb 7-9, 2024, pp. 61-70.

* Valentina Golendukhina, Lisa Sonnleithner, Michael Felderer: Enhancing Data Quality in Large-Scale Software Systems for Industrial Automation, opens an external URL in a new window. 3rd International Workshop on Software Engineering and AI for Data Quality in Cyber-Physical Systems/Internet of Things at the ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC / FSE), San Francisco, USA, 2023, pp. 5-8.

* Prankur Agarwal, Shubham Sharma, Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Delta Models as a Measurement for Improving the Quality of IEC 61499-based Control Software, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-4.

* Philipp Bauer, Lisa Sonnleithner, Elene Kutsia, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Using Graph Clustering Algorithms to Modularize IEC 61499 Control Software, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-4.

* Elene Kutsia, Lisa Sonnleithner, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Clone Detection in IEC 61499 using Metainformation, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-4.

* Mainak Majumder, Virendra Ashiwal, Alois Zoitl: Run-time Configuration of the IEC 61499-based PLC-Service Bus via OPC UA, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-4.

* Mainak Majumder, Bianca Wiesmayr, Alois Zoitl: Extending the OPC UA Companion Specification for an IEC 61499-based Control System, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-4.

* Tarik Terzimehic, Alois Zoitl: Landscape of Architectural Design Decisions in Industry 4.0, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-8.

* Bianca Wiesmayr, Midhun Xavier, Alois Zoitl, Valeriy Vyatkin: Generating Portable Test Cases for IEC 61499 FBs from Interface Behaviour Specifications, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-4.

* Bianca Wiesmayr, Antonio Gutierrez, Alois Zoitl: Towards Integrating Interface Behavior Models for Components of Distributed Control Software, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-4.

* Dunja Životin, Lisa Sonnleithner, Alois Zoitl: Bad Smells in IEC 61499-based Control Software, opens an external URL in a new window: Sniffing out Shotgun Surgery. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-4.

* Shubham Sharma, Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Antonio Manuel Gutierrez, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Modular Control Software Design to Support Mechatronic Variants in IEC 61499, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-8.

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Shubham Sharma, Antonio Manuel Gutierrez, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Delta Modeling in IEC 61499: Expressing Control Software Variability in Cyber-Physical Production Systems, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-8.

* Sandra Greiner, Bianca Wiesmayr, Kevin Feichtinger, Kristof Meixner, Marco Konersmann, Jerôme Pfeiffer, Michael Oberlehner, David Schmalzing, Andreas Wortmann, Bernhard Rumpe, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Maturity Evaluation of Domain-Specific Language Ecosystems for Cyber-Physical Production Systems, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-8.

* Lisa Sonnleithner, Bianca Wiesmayr, Antonio Gutierrez, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Complexity of Structured Text in IEC 61499 Function Blocks: A Survey, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-8.

* Philipp Bauer, Lisa Sonnleithner, Elene Kutsia, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Using Tool Support to Visualize and Interact with IEC 61499 Control Software, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-8.

* Lisa Sonnleithner, Anna-Lena Hager, Kristof Meixner, Alois Zoitl: IEC 61499 Skill-based Distributed Design Pattern, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-8.

* Tarik Terzimehić, Eddie Groh, Alois Zoitl: Composing Services with SMT-Based Deployment Optimization and Service Merging Heuristic, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-8.

* Mainak Majumder, Alois Zoitl: A Domain-Driven Design Oriented OPC UA Server Development Methodology for CPPS, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-8.

* Michael Oberlehner, Andreas Eigner, Manuel Wimmer, Alois Zoitl: Exploring Refactoring Operations for IEC 61499, opens an external URL in a new window. 28th IEEE IES International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2023), Sinaia, Romania, 2023, IEEE, pp. 1-8.

* Chico Sundermann, Stefan Vill, Thomas Thüm, Kevin Feichtinger, Prankur Agarwal, Rick Rabiser, José A. Galindo and David Benavides: UVLParser: Extending UVL with Language Levels and Conversion Strategies, opens an external URL in a new window. 27th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2023), Tokyo, Japan, 2023, pp. 39-42.

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Antonio Manuel Gutierrez Fernandez, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Managing Cyber-Physical Production Systems Variability using V4rdiac: Industrial Experiences, opens an external URL in a new window. 27th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2023), Toyko, Japan, ACM, 2023, pp. 223-233.

* Kevin Feichtinger, Chico Sundermann, Thomas Thüm, and Rick Rabiser: It's Your Loss: Classifying Information Loss During Variability Model Roundtrip Transformations, opens an external URL in a new window. Software Engineering (SE 2023), GI, 2023, pp. 51-52.

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Kevin Feichtinger, Antonio Manuel Gutiérrez Fernández and Rick Rabiser: Dynamic Product Configuration User Interface: A Vision Motivated by the Cyber-Physical Production Systems Domain, opens an external URL in a new window. 17th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2023), Odense, Denmark, Jan 25-27, 2023, pp. 88-90.

* Shubham Sharma, Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Antonio Manuel Gutiérrez Fernández, Rick Rabiser and Alois Zoitl: Modularization Technique to Support Software Variability in Cyber-Physical Production Systems, opens an external URL in a new window. 17th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2023), Odense, Denmark, Jan 25-27, 2023, pp. 71-76.

* Lisa Sonnleithner, Philipp Bauer, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Applying Visualization Concepts to Large-Scale Software Systems in Industrial Automation, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 10th IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2022), Limassol, Cyprus, IEEE, 2022, pp. 182-186.

* Virendra Ashiwal, Antonio Gutierrez, Konstantin Aschbacher, Alois Zoitl: Apache Kafka as a Middleware to Support the PLC-Service Bus Architecture with IEC 61499, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 16th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2022), Springer, 2022.

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah: Multidisciplinary Variability Management for Cyber-Physical Production Systems, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2022) Volume B, Doctoral Symposium, Graz, Austria, ACM, 2022, pp. 23-28.

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Kevin Feichtinger, Philipp Bauer, Elene Kutsia, Rick Rabiser: V4rdiac: Tooling for Multidisciplinary Delta-Oriented Variability Management in Cyber-Physical Production Systems, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2022) Volume A, Graz, Austria, ACM, 2022, pp. 34-37.

* Ana Eva Chacón-Luna, Antonio Manuel Gutierrez, David Benavides, Lidia Fuentes: Design for the analysis of variability management in the industry, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the Fifth Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies on Software Reuse (WEESR 2022), collocated with the 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2022), Graz, Austria, ACM, 2022, pp. 117-122.

* Dario Romano, Kevin Feichtinger, Danilo Beuche, Uwe Ryssel, Rick Rabiser: Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry: Transforming the Universal Variability Language to pure::variants and back, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the Fifth International Workshop on Languages for Modelling Variability (MODEVAR 2022), collocated with the 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2022), Graz, Austria, ACM, 2022, pp. 123-131.

* Kevin Feichtinger, Chico Sundermann, Thomas Thüm, Rick Rabiser: It's Your Loss: Classifying Information Loss During Variability Model Roundtrip Transformations, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2022) Volume A, Graz, Austria, ACM, 2022, pp. 67-78.

* Virendra Ashiwal, Mainak Majumder, Alois Zoitl: Evaluation of Middleware Technologies for the PLC-Service Bus in IEC 61499, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2022), Stuttgart, Germany, IEEE, 2022, pp. 1-4.

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Shubham Sharma, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Supporting Variability Management in Cyber-Physical Production Systems: Towards Semi-Automatic Delta Model Mining for IEC 61499, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2022), Stuttgart, Germany, IEEE, 2022, pp. 1-4.

* Kevin Feichtinger, Kristof Meixner, Felix Rinker, István Koren, Holger Eichelberger, Tonja Heinemann, Jörg Holtmann, Marco Konersmann, Judith Michael, Eva-Maria Neumann, Jérôme Pfeiffer, Rick Rabiser, Matthias Riebisch, Klaus Schmid: Industry Voices on Software Engineering Challenges in Cyber-Physical Production Systems Engineering, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2022), Stuttgart, Germany, IEEE, 2022, pp. 1-8.

* Markus Unterdechler, Antonio Gutierrez, Lisa Sonnleithner, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Identifying repeating patterns in IEC 61499 systems with machine learning, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2022), Stuttgart, Germany, IEEE, 2022, pp. 1-8.

* Bianca Wiesmayr, Alois Zoitl, Laurin Prenzel, Sebastian Steinhorst: Supporting a Model-driven Development Process for Distributed Control Software, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2022), Stuttgart, Germany, IEEE, 2022, pp. 1-8.

* Lisa Sonnleithner, Bianca. Wiesmayr, Virendra Ashiwal, Shubham Sharma, Alois Zoitl: Architectural Concepts for IEC 61499-based Machine Controls: Beyond Normal Operation Handling, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2022), Stuttgart, Germany, IEEE, 2022, pp. 1-8.

* Lisa Sonnleithner, Rick Rabiser, and Alois Zoitl: Bad Smells in Industrial Automation: Sniffing out Feature Envy, opens an external URL in a new window, Proc. of the 48th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2022), IEEE, 2022, pp. 346-349.

* Michael Oberlehner, Virendra Ashiwal, Alois Zoitl, James Christensen: Using Modules to Manage the Content of IEC 61499 Type Libraries. Proc. of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2022), IEEE, 2022.

* Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Eva-Maria Neumann, Juliane Fischer, Marga Marcos, Elisabet Estévez Estévez, Giacomo Barbieri, Lisa Sonnleithner, Rick Rabiser: Automation Software Architecture in CPPS – Definition, Challenges and Research Potentials, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2022), 2022, pp. 1-8.

* Virendra Ashiwal, Antonio M. Gutierrez Fernandez, Alois Zoitl: Implementing a PLC-Service bus with IEC 61499, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS 2022), 2022, pp. 1-7.

* Kevin Feichtinger, Kristof Meixner, Stefan Biffl, Rick Rabiser: Evolution Support for Custom Variability Artifacts using Feature Models: A Study in the Cyber-Physical Production Systems Domain, opens an external URL in a new window, Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2022), Springer, 2022, pp. 79-84.

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Kevin Feichtinger, Kristof Meixner, Lisa Sonnleithner, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Towards Multidisciplinary Delta-Oriented Variability Management in Cyber-Physical Production Systems, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 16th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2022), ACM, 2022, pp. 13:1-13:10.

* Kristof Meixner, Kevin Feichtinger, Stefan Biffl, Rick Rabiser: Efficient Production Process Variability Exploration, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 16th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2022), ACM, 2022, pp. 14:1-14:9.

* Bianca Wiesmayr, Alois Zoitl, Rick Rabiser: Assessing the Usefulness of a Visual Programming IDE for Large-Scale Automation Software, opens an external URL in a new window (Summary). Software Engineering (SE 2022), GI, 2022, pp. 91-92.

* Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Eva-Maria Neumann, Alois Zoitl, Antonio M. Gutierrez Fernandez, Rick Rabiser, Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah: An International Case Study on Control Software Development in Large-Scale Plant Manufacturing Companies of One Industrial Sector at Different Locations, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2021), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1-8.

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Bianca Wiesmayr, Michael Oberlehner, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Towards Delta-Oriented Variability Modeling for IEC 61499, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1-4.

* Lisa Sonnleithner, Sándor Bácsi, Michael Oberlehner, Elene Kutsia, and Alois Zoitl: Do you smell it too? Towards IEC 61499 Bad Smells, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1-4.

* Virendra Ashiwal, Alois Zoitl: Messaging Interaction Patterns for a Service Bus Concept of PLC-Software, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1-8.

* Kirill Dorofeev, Sebastian Bergemann, Tarik Terzimehi, Julian Grothoff, Michael Thies, Alois Zoitl: Generation of the Orchestrator Code for Skill-Based Automation Systems, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1-8.

* Michael Oberlehner, Lisa Sonnleithner, Bianca Wiesmayr, Alois Zoitl: Catalog of Refactoring Operations for IEC 61499, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1-4.

* Lisa Sonnleithner, Bianca Wiesmayr, Virendra Ashiwal, Alois Zoitl: IEC 61499 Distributed Design Patterns, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1-8.

* Tarik Terzimehi, Kirill Dorofeev, Sebastian Bergemann, Alois Zoitl, Sebastian Voss: Towards Service Deployment and Composition in Industry 4.0, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1-8.

* Bianca Wiesmayr, Alois Zoitl, Antonio Garmendia, Manuel Wimmer: A Model-based Execution Framework for Interpreting Control Software, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1-8.

* Bianca Wiesmayr, Alois Zoitl, Oscar Miguel-Escrig, Julio-Ariel Romero-Perez: Distributed Implementation of Hierarchical Grafcets through IEC 61499, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2021), IEEE, 2021, pp. 1-8.

* Bianca Wiesmayr, Alois Zoitl, Rick Rabiser: Assessing the Usefulness of a Visual Programming IDE for Large-Scale Automation Software, opens an external URL in a new window. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 24th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2021), IEEE, 2021, pp. 297-307.

* Kristof Meixner, Kevin Feichtinger, Rick Rabiser, Stefan Biffl: A Reusable Set of Real-World Product Line Case Studies for Comparing Variability Models in Research and Practice, opens an external URL in a new window. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies on Software Reuse (WEESR), collocated with the 25th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2021), Leicester, UK, ACM, 2021, pp. 105-112.

* Kevin Feichtinger, Rick Rabiser: How flexible must a Transformation Approach for Variability Models and Custom Variability Representations be?, opens an external URL in a new window Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Languages for Modelling Variability (MODEVAR 2021), collocated with the 25th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2021), Leicester, UK, ACM, 2021, pp. 69-72.

* Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Kevin Feichtinger, Lisa Sonnleithner, Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Towards Heterogeneous Multi-Dimensional Variability Modeling in Cyber-Physical Production Systems, opens an external URL in a new window. Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Variability and Evolution of Software-intensive Systems (VariVolution), collocated with the 25th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2021), Leicester, UK, ACM, 2021, pp. 123-129.

* Chico Sundermann, Kevin Feichtinger, Dominik Engelhardt, Rick Rabiser, Thomas Thüm: Yet Another Textual Variability Language? A Community Effort Towards a Unified Language, opens an external URL in a new window. Proceedings of the 25th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2021), Leicester, UK, ACM, 2021, pp. 136-147.

* Klaus Schmid, Rick Rabiser, Martin Becker, Goetz Botterweck, Matthias Galster, Iris Groher, Danny Weyns: Bridging the Gap: Voices from Industry and Research on Industrial Relevance of SPLC, opens an external URL in a new window. Proceedings of the 25th International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2021), Leicester, UK, ACM, 2021, pp. 184–189.

* Kevin Feichtinger, Kristof Meixner, Rick Rabiser, Stefan Biffl: A Systematic Study as Foundation for a Variability Modeling Body of Knowledge, opens an external URL in a new window. Proceedings  of the 47th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2021), Palermo, Italy, IEEE, 2021, pp. 25-28.

* Rick Rabiser, Alois Zoitl: Towards Mastering Variability in Software-Intensive Cyber-Physical Production Systems, opens an external URL in a new window, in Elsevier: Procedia Computer Science, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart (ISM 2020), Elsevier, pp. 50-59, 2021, ISSN: 1877-0509.

PhD, Master and Bachelor Theses (only those of CD lab staff):

* Dunja Životin: Shotgun Surgery Bad Smell Detection in IEC 61499. Master's Thesis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, 5.6.2024.

* Lisa Sonnleithner: Analyzing and Improving Control Software Quality in Cyber-Physical Production Systems. Dissertation, Johannes Kepler University Linz, 10.11.2023. (Winner of JKU Young Researcher Award 2024, ÖWGP Doktoratspreis (3. Platz) and BMBWF PhD Award of Excellence)

* Prankur Agarwal: Bridging the Gap: Transforming UVL Models to IVML Models and back. Master's Thesis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, 19.12.2023.

* Elene Kutsia: Clone Detection in IEC 61499 using Metainformation. Bachelor’s Thesis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, 02.11.2022.

* Philipp Bauer: Analyzing and Refactoring the Modularization of IEC 61499 Systems. Bachelor’s Thesis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, 06.07.2022.

* Markus Unterdechler: Analysis of Rollout Variants in MCTS. Bachelor’s Thesis, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, 30.03.2021.

Others:

* Kristof Meixner, Kevin Feichtinger, Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Sandra Greiner, Hannes Marcher, Rick Rabiser, Stefan Biffl: Variability modeling of products, processes, and resources in cyber–physical production systems engineering, opens an external URL in a new window, Journal First Track, ACM, 2024, p. 279.

* Rick Rabiser, Manuel Wimmer, Iris Groher, Andreas Wortmann, Bianca Wiesmayr, Software Engineering 2024, opens an external URL in a new window: Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), 2024.

* Rick Rabiser, Martin Becker, and Mitsuhiro Kitani: SPLC 2023 Industry Variability Challenges Workshop, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 27th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2023), Tokyo, Japan, ACM, 2023, p. 287.

* Sebastian Krieter, Kevin Feichtinger, José A. Galindo, David Benavides, Rick Rabiser, Chico Sundermann, Thomas Thüm: Second Tutorial on the Universal Variability Language, opens an external URL in a new window. 27th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2023), ACM, 2023, p. 273.

* Philipp Bauer: Analyzing and Refactoring the Modularization of IEC 61499 Systems. Student Research Competition Poster. Software Engineering 2023, GI, 2023.

* Elene Kutsia: Clone Detection in IEC 61499 using Metainformation. Student Research Competition Poster. Software Engineering 2023, GI, 2023.

* Rick Rabiser, Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Manuel Wimmer, Andreas Wortmann, Alois Zoitl: Workshop on Software Engineering in Cyber-Physical Production Systems (SECPPS), 2nd Edition, opens an external URL in a new window. in Software Engineering 2022, LNI, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2022, pp. 105-106.

* Chico Sundermann, Kevin Feichtinger, José A. Galindo, David Benavides, Rick Rabiser, Sebastian Krieter, Thomas Thüm: Tutorial on the Universal Variability Language, opens an external URL in a new window. Proc. of the 26th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (SPLC 2022) Volume A, Graz, Austria, ACM, 2022, p. 260.

* Rick Rabiser, Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Manuel Wimmer, Alois Zoitl: Workshop on Software Engineering in Cyber-Physical Production Systems (SECPPS), opens an external URL in a new window, in Software Engineering 2021, LNI, Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.., 2021, pp. 133-134.