20.10.2025

We are happy to share that our paper “Same Same But Different: Preventing Refactoring Attacks on Software Plagiarism Detection” by Robin Maisch, Larissa Schmid, Timur Sağlam, and Nils Niehues has been accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2026.

The work addresses a longstanding challenge in academic integrity: the vulnerability of source code plagiarism detection tools to refactoring-based obfuscation. The authors introduce Nocte, an extensible framework that leverages graph transformations on code property graphs to normalize code structure. This approach significantly strengthens the resilience of plagiarism detection systems against structural modifications often used to conceal copied code.

Congratulations to all authors on this excellent achievement!

17.06.2025

Our chair is delighted to announce that our group member Jan Keim has received a Best Paper Award nomination at the 19th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA) for the paper “LLMs for Software Architecture Knowledge: A Comparative Analysis among Seven LLMs.”

The work, co-authored by Mohamed Soliman, Elia Ashraf, Kamel M. K. Abdelsalam, and Ashwin Prasad Shivarpatna Venkatesh, explores how large language models can support software architecture knowledge. The nomination recognizes the paper’s innovative contribution to advancing research at the intersection of AI and software engineering.

11.06.2025

Convide PI Professor Anne Koziolek gave a keynote titled "Modeling and LLMs in Continuous Software Engineering" at the 21st European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications (ECMFA).

The talk outlined a vision for the role of models in continuous software engineering, emphasizing their continued and central role in the age of AI.

10.06.2025

Robin Maisch, Nathan Hagel, and Alexander Bartel, professor at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences, have received the Best Paper award at the 6th European Conference on Software Engineering Education (ECSEE) for their paper “Towards Robust Plagiarism Detection in Programming Education: Introducing Tolerant Token Matching Techniques to Counter Novel Obfuscation Methods“.

In their work, the researchers have developed an approach to incorporate strategies from bioinformatics into state-of-the-art source code plagiarism detection systems in order to enhance the precision of detection while also preventing typical plagiarism obfuscation techniques often encountered in their teaching activities.

29.05.2025

The paper titled "Continuous integration of architectural performance models with parametric dependencies – the CIPM approach" by Manar Mazkatli, David Monschein, Martin Armbruster, Robert Heinrich, and Anne Koziolek has been published in the international journal Automated Software Engineering (ASE). The paper presents the approach Continuous Integration of architectural Performance Model (CIPM) that automatically updates a parametric architectural performance model (aPM) after each evolutionary, adaptive, or usage change. Thanks also to its self-validation process, CIPM will automatically keep the aPM up-to-date throughout the development and operation, which enables architecture-based performance prediction for a proactive identification of upcoming performance problems and for evaluating alternatives at low costs.

09.04.2025

At REFSQ 2025, SDQ members were honored to win the Open Science Challenge Award for our paper! Even though OpenScience should be the goal for all of us, its nice to get recognition for the efforts put in. Thanks Oliver Karras and Julian Frattini for organizing the challenge and advocating OpenScience at REFSQ and thanks to TIB and ORKG to sponsor the award.