Automated Software language and SOftware engineering
Focus:
The ASSO research group focuses on automating the engineering of software (programming/modelling) languages and software by applying advanced computation and data manipulation.
The group pursues long-lasting research on the application of advanced computation and data manipulation to automate, systematize and make more flexible the engineering of software languages and software to increase software quality and productivity of software engineers. The key methodology is Model-Driven Engineering.
The distinctive focus of the ASSO group is multi-fold and includes: engineering of domain-specific languages (DSLs) and modelling languages (DSMLs), automated and seamless support for blended multi-notation editing of programs and models, innovative multi-step transpilation and compilation techniques for automatic generation of executable software from DS(M)Ls based on program and model transformation, software language and software engineering for robotics and the Internet-of-Things.
ASSO is a dynamic group with a variegated set of skills and knowledge in software language and software engineering, as well as theoretical computer science, with a common denominator being automatization of engineering phases. The group has a strong network of internal and external collaborations (both nationally and internationally).
How and Why is Change Modeled? – A Scoping Literature Review (Sep 2025) Thomas Weber , Johan Cederbladh, Sebastian Weber , Arne Lange , Antonio Cicchetti, Ralf Reussner 19th edition of the international workshop on Models and Evolution (ME 2025)
Guest editorial for the special section on the 26th international conference on model-driven engineering languages and systems (MODELS 2023) (Sep 2025) Antonio Cicchetti, Thomas Kühne , Alfonso Pierantonio , Gabriele Taentzer Springer Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (SoSym)
Access Granted - Carefully: Securing Model Information in Collaborative Modeling (Sep 2025) Malvina Latifaj, Federico Ciccozzi, Antonio Cicchetti Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)
Model Driven Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and DevOps for Software and Systems Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study of Synergies and Challenges (Aug 2025) Luca Berardinelli , Vittoriano Muttillo , Romina Eramo , Hugo Bruneliere , Abbas Rahimi , Antonio Cicchetti, Joan Giner-Miguelez , Abel Gomez , Pasqualina Potena , Mehrdad Saadatmand ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Explaining Model-Based Systems Engineering – Towards a Semiotic Perspective (Jul 2025) Eduard Kamburjan , Johan Cederbladh 35th INCOSE International Symposium (INCOSE IS 2025)
An Initial Exploration of MULTI Level Modeling for Model-Based Systems Engineering (Jul 2025) Arne Lange , Johan Cederbladh, Kevin Feichtinger , Thomas Weber 35th INCOSE International Symposium (INCOSE IS 2025)
