Alexander Kittelmann, M.Sc.

Technische Universität Braunschweig

Institut für Softwaretechnik und Fahrzeuginformatik
Technische Universität Braunschweig

Informatikzentrum
Mühlenpfordtstr. 23
38106 Braunschweig

Raum: IZ 412
Tel. +49 531 391-2289

Email: a.knueppel(at)tu-bs.de

ResearchGate

Forschungsschwerpunkte

Feature-oriented software development (FOSD)
Software Produktlinien (SPLs) und Analyse
Feature-Modellierung
Formale Methoden/Formale Verifikation: Deduktive Verifikation, Model Checking, Type Systems, statische Analyse, Assertion checking
Formale Spezifikation: Design by Contracts (DbC), Z-Notation, B-Method
Theorembeweisen mit Coq

Aktivitäten

Assistierung bei der ModPro Summer School 2020 in Stellenbosch (SA) vom 19. bis 24. Januar 2020
Teilnahme am KeY-Workshop (20-jähriges Jubiläum) in Manigod vom 13. August bis 15. August 2019
Teilnahme beim Dagstuhlevent: Software Engineering Forschungsmethoden Training in Schloss Dagstuhl vom 31. März bis 03. April 2019
Teilnahme beim FOSD Meeting 2019 in Weimar vom 12. März bis 15. März 2019
Teimnahme am HacKeYthon 2018 in Karlsruhe vom 05. Dezember bis 7. Dezember 2018
Teilnahme an der Marktoberdorf Summer School 2018 in Marktoberdorf vom 31. Juli bis 11. August 2018
Teilnahme beim FOSD Meeting 2018 in Göteborg vom 03. bis 06. Juni 2018
Teilnahme an der DeepSpec Summer School 2017 in Philadelphia vom 13. bis 28. Juli 2017
Teilnahme beim FOSD Meeting 2017 in Odenwald vom 14. bis 17. März 2017

Program Committees

SPLC'18 22nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference (Artifact Track PC Member)
SEFM'18 16th International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (Proceedings Manager)

Projekte

CCC: Controlling Concurrent Change (abgeschlossen)

Lehre

TODO

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Betreute Studentische Arbeiten

Marlen Herter-Bernier. Semi-automatisches Parametrieren von konfigurierbaren Model Checkern mittels Guido. Project's work, 2020. In german.
Leon Schaer. Überprüfung der korrekten Implementierung von Softwarekomponenten mittels Z3. Project's work, 2019. In german.
Arne Windeler. Strong Compositionality for Skill-Based Cyber-Physical Systems. Bachelor's thesis, 2019. In english.
Stefanie Schober. Entwicklung korrekter Softwarekomponenten mittels Correctness-by-Construction. Bachelor's thesis, 2019. In german.
Tabea Bordis. Supporting Method Calls in CorC for Developing Correct-by-Construction Software Product Lines. Master's thesis, 2019. In english.
Maren Süwer. Parameter Guidance in the Deductive Program Verier KeY. Master's thesis, 2019. In english.
Markus Gamperle. Specifying Software Components with Multi-Viewpoint Contracts. Bachelor's thesis, 2018. In english.
Enis Belli. Implementing a Graphical Skill Graph Editor for Monitoring Vehicle Guidance Systems. Bachelor's thesis, 2018. In english.
Carsten Padylla. Ein Erfahrungsbericht zur Deduktiven Verifikation mit KeY. Master's thesis, 2017. In german.
Stefanie Bolle. Feature-orientiertes Framing für die Verifikation von Software-Produktlinien. Master's thesis, 2017. In german.

Veröffentlichungen

2020

Tobias Runge, Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, and Ina Schaefer. Lattice-Based Information Flow Control-by-Construction for Security-by-Design. In FormaliSE, 2020. To appear.
Alexander Knüppel, Inga Jatzkowski, Marcus Nolte, Thomas Thüm, Tobias Runge, and Ina Schaefer. Skill-Based Verication of Cyber-Physical Systems. In FASE 2020. To appear.
Tabea Bordis, Tobias Runge, Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, and Ina Schaefer. Variational Correctness-by-Construction. In 14th International Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS'20), 2020.

2019

Thomas Thüm, Alexander Knüppel, Stefan Krüger, Stefanie Bolle, and Ina Schaefer. Feature-Oriented Contract Composition. In Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Elsevier, 2019.
Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Carsten Immanuel Pardylla, and Ina Schaefer. Understanding Parameters of Deductive Verification: An Empirical Investigation of KeY. In Software Engineering, Bonn, Germany, February 2019. Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).

2018

Tobias Runge, Ina Schaefer, Alexander Knüppel, Loek Cleophas, Derrick Kourie, and Bruce W. Watson. Tool support for Confidentiality by Construction. In HILT 2018 Workshop on Languages and Tools for Ensuring Cyber-Resilience in Critical Software-Intensive Systems (HILT'18), November 2018. To appear.
Ina Schaefer, Tobias Runge, Alexander Knüppel, Loek Cleophas, Derrick Kourie, and Bruce W. Watson. Towards Confidentiality-by-Construction. In 8th International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA'18), November 2018. Springer.
Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Carsten I. Pardylla, and Ina Schaefer. Scalability of Deductive Verification Depends on Method Call Treatment. In 8th International Symposium On Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation (ISoLA'18), November 2018. Springer.
Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Carsten Pardylla, and Ina Schaefer. Experience Report on Formally Verifying Parts of OpenJDK's API with KeY. In Fourth Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment (F-IDE), July 2018.
Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Carsten Pardylla, and Ina Schaefer. Understanding Parameters of Deductive Verification: An Empirical Investigation of KeY. In 9th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP), Held as Part of the Federated Logic Conference, FloC 2018, Oxford, UK, July 2018. Springer.
Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Stephan Mennicke, Jens Meinicke, and Ina Schaefer. Is There a Mismatch Between Real-World Feature Models and Product-Line Research?. In Software Engineering, Bonn, Germany, March 2018. Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).

2017

Alexander Knüppel, Thomas Thüm, Stephan Mennicke, Jens Meinicke, and Ina Schaefer. Is There a Mismatch Between Real-World Feature Models and Product-Line Research?. In Joint Meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE). 2017. Software artifacts available: GitHub

2016

Alexander Knüppel. The Role of Complex Constraints in Feature Modeling. Master's thesis, TU Braunschweig, Germany, July 2016. In English.