Model-based engineering of Digital Twins for early verification and validation of Industrial Systems

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Deliverables

Data Management plan

The Deliverable Data Management Plan is a concise document outlining how data will be collected, organized, stored, and utilized throughout the project.. It defines data sources, formats, security measures, and access protocols to ensure efficient data handling and compliance with relevant regulations. This plan acts as a roadmap for managing data effectively, supporting informed decision-making and achieving project goals

Dissemination and exploitation plan

The detailed dissemination plan of thewhole project, with specific actions,conferences, result publications, visits, andother disseminations activities. Thisdeliverable may be edited throughout theproject, as extra activities may be added.

Report on foundations of Digital Twin engineering and validation

This report describes the outputs of a systematic study that will be performed to collect relevant published studies related to the continuous engineering (modelling, verification, validation, and smart prediction of system qualities) of Digital Twins.

Project Management Handbook

The Deliverable Project Management Handbook is a vital guide packed with essential principles, tools, and practices. It allows to efficiently plan, execute, and control projects, providing insights on initiation, scope, scheduling, budgeting, risk, and stakeholder communication. This handbook is a guide through project complexities, ensuring successful delivery and high quality results.

Dissemination report initial

This deliverable contains the first version the report of the activities carried out in dissemination and communication.

Exploitation plan

The detailed Exploitation plan of the whole project (including market analysis). This deliverable may be edited throughout the project, as extra activities may be added.

Publications

FlexiDigital: A Comprehensive Approach to Energy Flexibility Services using Digital Twins and Large Language Models

Author(s): Adam Jatowt, Sashko Ristov, Philipp Gritsch, Simon Brandacher, Peter Rosengren, Danilo Valerio, Fengji Luo
Published in: Proceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3679240.3734662

Learning to Transform: Evaluating LLMs on Model Transformation by Example

Author(s): Duy Dao, Alessio Bucaioni, Antonio Cicchetti
Published in: 2025 ACM/IEEE 28th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MODELS-C68889.2025.00081

Agentic Model Transformation: Service-Mediated Orchestration for Transformation Development

Author(s): Duy Dao, Alessio Bucaioni, Antonio Cicchetti
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3822455.3838763

Bug-Report–Driven Fault Localization: Industrial Benchmarking and Lessons Learned at ABB Robotics

Author(s): Pernilla Hall , Anton Ununger , Riccardo Rubei, Alessio Bucaioni
Published in: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2026)
Publisher: ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2604.25700

From Informal to Conformant Models: Benchmarking Vision--Language Models for UML Generation

Author(s): Cecilia Eklund, Tom Jonsson, Riccardo Rubei, Alessio Bucaioni
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3837062.3839379

pyStorageLess: Leveraging Von Neumann’s Architecture to Abstract Storage Heterogeneity in Serverless Applications

Author(s): Sashko Ristov, Mika Hautz, Philipp Gritsch, Isabella Schmut, Peter Koll, Michael Felderer
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-84617-5_14

STS: AI-Driven Smart Test Scenario Generation Tool

Author(s): Cem Bağlum, Uğur Yayan
Published in: 2025 33rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SIU66497.2025.11112297

Architecture as Code in Industry: A Multiple-Case Empirical Study

Author(s): Valeria Pontillo, Alessio Bucaioni, Italo Carnevale, Amleto Di Salle, Lorenzo Manzoni, Patrizio Pelliccione, Francesco Maria Sprotetto
Published in: 2026 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICSA-C68850.2026.00017

Schedulability Analysis of OpenMP Applications Under Heuristic Task-To-Thread Mapping

Author(s): Mohammad Samadi, Tiago Carvalho, Luis Miguel Pinho, Sara Royuela
Published in: 7th Workshop on Next Generation Real-Time Embedded Systems (NG-RES 2026)
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik.
DOI: 10.4230/OASICS.NG-RES.2026.2

SCOPE: A Dataset of Stereotyped Prompts for Counterfactual Fairness Assessment of LLMs

Author(s): Alessandra Parziale, Gianmario Voria, Valeria Pontillo, Andrea De Lucia, Gemma Catolino, Fabio Palomba
Published in: 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering - Companion (SANER-C), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SANER-C67878.2026.00025

Towards Synthetic Trace Generation of Modeling Operations using In-Context Learning Approach

Author(s): Vittoriano Muttillo, Claudio Di Sipio, Riccardo Rubei, Luca Berardinelli, MohammadHadi Dehghani
Published in: Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3691620.3695058

Post-Velocity Software Engineering: Assurance Saturation in AI-Enabled Socio-Technical Systems

Author(s): Alessio Bucaioni
Published in: Proceedings of the 2026 International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3794786.3830765

Harnessing ChatGPT for Model Transformation in Software Architecture: From UML State Diagrams to Rebeca Models for Formal Verification

Author(s): Zahra Moezkarimi, Kevin Eriksson, Albin Alm Johansson, Alessio Bucaioni, Marjan Sirjani
Published in: 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICSA-C65153.2025.00061

CONTAaC: Continuous Architecting as Code

Author(s): Alessandra Somma, Alessio Bucaioni, Patrizio Pelliccione
Published in: 2026 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICSA66085.2026.00015

Déjà Vu: A Replication Study on Code Smells and Faults in JavaScript Projects

Author(s): Kevin Pacifico, Giammaria Giordano, Valeria Pontillo, Massimiliano (Max) Di Penta, Damian Andrew Tamburri, Fabio Palomba
Published in: Proceedings of the 2026 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3794763.3798171

SLIDE-x-ML: System-Level Infrastructure for Dataset E-xtraction and Machine Learning Framework for High-Level Synthesis Estimations

Author(s): Vittoriano Muttillo, Vincenzo Stoico, Marco Santic, Giacomo Valente, Luigi Pomante, Daniele Frigioni
Published in: 2024 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCD63220.2024.00098

An Empirical Investigation on the Use of Large Language Models for Performance Bug Detection

Author(s): Muhammad Imran, Vittorio Cortellessa, Davide Di Ruscio, Riccardo Rubei, Luca Traini
Published in: 2026 IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANER), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SANER67736.2026.00044

Engineering Future Critical CPSs with Trustworthy GenAI Across the Lifecycle

Author(s): Alessio Bucaioni, Antonio Cicchetti, Gordana Dodig Crnkovic, Romina Spalazzese, Emma Söderberg, Dániel Varró
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3786581.3786936

Architecture as Code

Author(s): Alessio Bucaioni, Amleto Di Salle, Ludovico Iovino, Patrizio Pelliccione, Franco Raimondi
Published in: 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICSA65012.2025.00027

Monitoring Renewable Energy Communities Using Digital Twins via SAREF4ENER and a REST API

Author(s): Mohammad Samadi, Luís Miguel Pinho, Andrey Sadovykh, Gabriela Lucas
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3837062.3839086

Towards the Model-Based Engineering of Composable and Reusable Digital Twins: the Digital Twin Interface Concept

Author(s): Martina Nolletti, Hugo Bruneliere, Benoit Combemale, Romina Eramo, Peeter Kool
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3837062.3839088

An Adaptive Testing Approach Based on Field Data

Author(s): Samira Silva, Ricardo Caldas, Patrizio Pelliccione, Antonia Bertolino
Published in: 2025 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automation of Software Test (AST), 2025
Publisher: IEEE/ACM
DOI: 10.1109/AST66626.2025.00013

Evaluating Large Language Models for Automated Serverless Workflow Generation

Author(s): Sashko Ristov, Philipp Gritsch, Florian Unterhofer, Ruth Breu
Published in: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3809481.3816480

Understanding Microservice Runtime Monitoring Data for Anomaly Detection with Structural Equation Modeling

Author(s): Monika Steidl, Michael Leitner, Pirmin Urbanke, Marko Gattringer, Michael Felderer, Sashko Ristov
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, 2024
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78386-9_31

An Agentic LLM-based Environment for Interactive Domain Knowledge Elicitation and Metamodeling

Author(s): Zakaria Hachm, Alfonso Pierantonio, Davide Di Ruscio, Théo Le Calvar, Massimo Tisi, Hugo Bruneliere
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3837062.3839746

FLORCA: A Lightweight Runtime for Dynamic Serverless Function Coordination and Execution

Author(s): Philipp Gritsch, Thomas Oberroither, Hannes Stecher, Michael Felderer, Sashko Ristov
Published in: ACM
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3801927.3810470

Assessing LLMs for Automated Test Reporting and Test Closure: A Controlled Multi-Model Evaluation

Author(s): Cem Bağlum, Uğur Yayan, Ahmet Yazıcı
Published in: UYMS 2026
Publisher: UYMS 2026

FMU-Based Residual Decomposition and Dual LSTM Autoencoder Fusion for Anomaly Detection in Collaborative Robots

Author(s): Cem Süha Yılmaz, Serhat Kahraman, Metin Yılmaz, Hasan Serhan Yavuz, Uğur Yayan
Published in: 2026 34th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SIU71813.2026.11636980

Once Upon a Team: Investigating Bias in LLM-Driven Software Team Composition and Task Allocation

Author(s): Alessandra Parziale, Gianmario Voria, Valeria Pontillo, Amleto Di Salle, Patrizio Pelliccione, Gemma Catolino, Fabio Palomba
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3786581.3786930

Development and Simulation of a Robot Arm Functional Mockup Unit (FMU) for Digital Twins

Author(s): Serhat Kahraman, Uğur Yayan
Published in: 2025 33rd Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SIU66497.2025.11112169

Digital-Twins-as-a-Service in Construction Engineering

Author(s): Philipp Zech, Claudio Nardin, Sashko Ristov, Matthias Flora, Ruth Breu
Published in: 2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CASE59546.2024.10711409

HEFTLess: A Bi-Objective Serverless Workflow Batch Orchestration on the Computing Continuum

Author(s): Reza Farahani, Narges Mehran, Sashko Ristov, Radu Prodan
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CLUSTER59578.2024.00032

When Retriever Meets Generator: A Joint Model for Code Comment Generation

Author(s): Tien P. T. Le, Anh M. T. Bui, Huy N. D. Pham, Alessio Bucaioni, Phuong T. Nguyen
Published in: 2025 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM64174.2025.00014

Robotic Quality Inspection System Trajectory Planning Tool for Digital Twin Development

Author(s): Serhat Kahraman, Dogukan Kıyıklık, Zülfikar Güneş, Koray Melih Yatağan, Serkan Dedeoğlu
Published in: IEEE Explore
Publisher: IEEE Explore

StoreLess: Serverless Workflow Scheduling with Federated Storage in Sky Computing

Author(s): Sashko Ristov, Mika Hautz, Philipp Gritsch, Stefan Nastic, Radu Prodan, Michael Felderer
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Service-Oriented Computing, 2024
Publisher: Springer Nature Singapore
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-0808-9_3

LLM-Based Recommender Systems for Violation Resolutions in Continuous Architectural Conformance

Author(s): Riccardo Rubei, Amleto Di Salle, Alessio Bucaioni
Published in: 2025 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICSA-C65153.2025.00063

Towards a Methodology for Continuous Model-Driven Digital Twin Engineering

Author(s): Hafiyyan Sayyid Fadhlillah, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Benoit Combemale, Vittoriano Muttillo, Hugo Bruneliere, Luca Berardinelli
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3822455.3838764

Goal-Driven building automation using serverless computing

Author(s): Sashko Ristov, Anna Meshcheriakova, Philipp Gritsch, Philipp Zech, Ruth Breu
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPSW66978.2025.00163

Toward Federated Cognitive Digital Twins over the Edge–to-Cloud Continuum

Author(s): Alessandra Somma , Alessio Bucaioni
Published in: ADA User Journal
Publisher: Ada-Europe.
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2607.21357

Beyond Single-run Correctness: Nondeterminism-aware Evaluation of LLM-based Model Transformations

Author(s): Riccardo Rubei, Alessio Bucaioni, Amleto Di Salle
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3822455.3838776

Engineering Digital Twins: A Research Roadmap

Author(s): Benoit Combemale, Pascale Vicat-Blanc, Arnaud Blouin, Hind Bril El Haouzi, Jean-Michel Bruel, Julien Deantoni, Thierry Duval, Sébastien Gérard, Jean-Marc Jézéquel
Published in: 2025 ACM/IEEE 28th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MODELS-C68889.2025.00035

Multi-Partner Project: A Model-Driven Engineering Framework for Federated Digital Twins of Industrial Systems (MATISSE)

Author(s): Alessio Bucaioni, Romina Eramo, Luca Berardinelli, Hugo Bruneliere, Benoit Combemale, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Vittoriano Muttillo, Andrey Sadovykh, Manuel Wimmer
Published in: 2025 Design, Automation &amp; Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/DATE64628.2025.10993046

Towards LLM Agents for Model-Based Engineering: A Case in Transformation Selection

Author(s): Zakaria Hachm, Théo Le Calvar, Hugo Bruneliere, Massimo Tisi
Published in: 2025 ACM/IEEE 28th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MODELS-C68889.2025.00061

Reactive Whole-Body Control of Mobile Manipulators for Dynamic Target Tracking via Adaptive-Predictive Visual Servoing

Author(s): Andrea Monguzzi, Giuseppe Alfonso, Navvab Kashiri
Published in: 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICRA57385.2026.11696302

Artificial Intelligence for Software Architecture: Literature Review and the Road Ahead

Author(s): Alessio Bucaioni, Martin Weyssow, Junda He, Yunbo Lyu, David Lo
Published in: 2025
Publisher: The ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2504.04334

Toward Systematic Counterfactual Fairness Evaluation of Large Language Models: The CAFFE Framework

Author(s): Alessandra Parziale, Gianmario Voria, Valeria Pontillo, Gemma Catolino, Andrea De Lucia, Fabio Palomba
Published in: Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3744916.3787848

System-Level Timing Performance Estimation Based on a Unifying HW/SW Performance Metric

Author(s): Vittoriano Muttillo, Vincenzo Stoico, Giacomo Valente, Marco Santic, Luigi Pomante, Daniele Frigioni
Published in: 16th Workshop on Parallel Programming and Run-Time Management Techniques for Many-Core Architectures and 14th Workshop on Design Tools and Architectures for Multicore Embedded Computing Platforms (PARMA-DITAM 2025), 2025
Publisher: https://drops.dagstuhl.de/
DOI: 10.4230/OASICS.PARMA-DITAM.2025.3

SysML Modeling of Digital Twins for Renewable Energy Communities

Author(s): Mohammad Samadi, Luis Miguel Pinho, Andrey Sadovykh, Gabriela Lucas
Published in: arXiv
Publisher: Ada User Journal
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2606.20230

Towards a Unifying Reference Model for Digital Twins of Cyber-Physical Systems

Author(s): Jérôme Pfeiffer, Jingxi Zhang, Benoit Combemale, Judith Michael, Bernhard Rumpe, Manuel Wimmer, Andreas Wortmann
Published in: 2025 IEEE 30th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ETFA65518.2025.11205646

Domain Knowledge Debt: Why Metamodeling Still Needs Elicitation

Author(s): Alfonso Pierantonio, Davide Di Ruscio, Zakaria Hachm, Massimo Tisi, Hugo Bruneliere, Théo Le Calvar
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3837062.3838911

ROSE: Transformer-Based Refactoring Recommendation for Architectural Smells

Author(s): Samal Nursapa, Anastassiya Samuilova, Alessio Bucaioni, Phuong T. Nguyen
Published in: 2025 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ESEM64174.2025.00019

PyLC+: A Scalable Python Framework for Automated Translation and Testing of Industrial PLC Programs

Author(s): Mikael Ebrahimi Salari, Eduard Paul Enoiu, Alessio Bucaioni, Wasif Afzal, Cristina Seceleanu
Published in: 2025 IEEE 49th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/COMPSAC65507.2025.00085

Towards LLM-Assisted Business Process Modeling in an Industrial Modeling Tool: An Experience Report

Author(s): Andrey Sadovykh, Loay Chlih, Bilal Said, Hugo Bruneliere
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 29th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 2026
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3822455.3830328

Reducing IoT Data at the Edge: A Comparative Evaluation

Author(s): Sebastian Leclerc, Emma Hansen, Alessio Bucaioni, Mohammad Ashjaei
Published in: 2026 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICIT64854.2026.11491260

Requirements Ambiguity Detection and Explanation with LLMS: An Industrial Study

Author(s): Sarmad Bashir, Alessio Ferrari, Abbas Khan, Per Erik Strandberg, Zulqarnain Haider, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Markus Bohlin
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICSME64153.2025.00063

Performance Testing in Open-Source Web Projects: Adoption, Maintenance, and a Change Taxonomy

Author(s): Sergio Di Meglio, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace, Valeria Pontillo, Ruben Opdebeeck, Coen De Roover, Sergio Di Martino
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICSME64153.2025.00027

A model-driven approach for engineering Mobility Digital Twins: The Bologna case study

Author(s): Alessandra Somma, Domenico Amalfitano, Alessio Bucaioni, Alessandra De Benedictis
Published in: Information and Software Technology, Issue 188, 2026, ISSN 0950-5849
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.INFSOF.2025.107863

Performance regression testing initiatives: a systematic mapping

Author(s): Luciana Brasil Rebelo dos Santos, Érica Ferreira de Souza, André Takeshi Endo, Catia Trubiani, Riccardo Pinciroli, Nandamudi Lankalapalli Vijaykumar
Published in: Information and Software Technology, Issue 179, 2025, ISSN 0950-5849
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.INFSOF.2024.107641

Leveraging synthetic trace generation of modeling operations for intelligent modeling assistants using large language models

Author(s): Vittoriano Muttillo, Claudio Di Sipio, Riccardo Rubei, Luca Berardinelli
Published in: Information and Software Technology, Issue 186, 2025, ISSN 0950-5849
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.INFSOF.2025.107806

FMU-Based Multi Criteria Trajectory Validation of Industrial Robots

Author(s): Serhat Kahraman, Cem Süha Yilmaz, Metin Yilmaz, Ugur Yayan
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 14, 2026, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3684299

Foster the use of Hackathons in Collaborative Research Projects: Methodology, Experience Report and Lesson Learned

Author(s): Claudio Di Sipio, Romina Eramo, Vittoriano Muttillo, Riccardo Rubei
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3771552

Comprehensive overview of quantum serverless: Elastic integration of quantum and classical computing

Author(s): Dimitar Mileski, Marjan Gusev, Sashko Ristov
Published in: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Issue 216, 2026, ISSN 0743-7315
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JPDC.2026.105303

Future Generation Computer Systems

Author(s): Alessio Bucaioni, Jakob Axelsson, Moris Behnam, Enxhi Ferko
Published in: Future Generation Computer Systems, ISSN 0167-739X
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.FUTURE.2025.108147

Model‐Driven Engineering for Digital Twins: Opportunities and Challenges

Author(s): Judith Michael, Loek Cleophas, Steffen Zschaler, Tony Clark, Benoit Combemale, Thomas Godfrey, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Vinay Kulkarni, Daniel Lehner, Bernhard Rumpe, Manuel Wimmer, Andreas Wortmann, Shaukat Ali, Balbir Barn, Ion Barosan, Nelly Bencomo, Francis Bordeleau, Georg Grossmann, Gabor Karsai, Oliver Kopp, Bernhard Mitschang, Paula Muñoz Ariza, Alfonso Pierantonio, Fiona A. C. Polack, Matthias Riebisch, Holger Schlingloff, Markus Stumptner, Antonio Vallecillo, Mark van den Brand, Hans Vangheluwe
Published in: Systems Engineering, Issue 28, 2025, ISSN 1098-1241
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/SYS.21815

Investigating the adoption and maintenance of web GUI testing: Insights from GitHub repositories

Author(s): Sergio Di Meglio, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace, Valeria Pontillo, Ruben Opdebeeck, Coen De Roover, Sergio Di Martino
Published in: Information and Software Technology, Issue 189, 2026, ISSN 0950-5849
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.INFSOF.2025.107928

Understanding Machine Learning testing in practice

Author(s): Alfonso Cannavale, Valeria Pontillo, Andrea De Lucia, Fabio Palomba
Published in: Journal of Systems and Software, Issue 240, 2026, ISSN 0164-1212
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSS.2026.112925

From engineering models to digital twins: Generating AAS from SysML v2 models

Author(s): Enxhi Ferko, Luca Berardinelli, Alessio Bucaioni, Moris Behnam, Manuel Wimmer
Published in: Journal of Systems and Software, Issue 233, 2026, ISSN 0164-1212
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSS.2025.112688

Modeling and Digital Twins: Insights and Strategies for Software Engineers

Author(s): Silvia Abrahão, Miroslaw Staron, Judith Michael, Benoit Combemale, Marsha Chechik
Published in: IEEE Software, Issue 42, 2025, ISSN 0740-7459
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2024.3510892

Experiences and challenges from a software ecosystem for cyber–physical systems development: An empirical study on industry-academia collaboration

Author(s): Vittoriano Muttillo, Romina Eramo, Johan Cederbladh, Per Erik Strandberg, Adnan Ashraf
Published in: Journal of Systems and Software, Issue 231, 2026, ISSN 0164-1212
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSS.2025.112579

Effects of specifying robotic missions in behavior trees and state machines

Author(s): Swaib Dragule, Engineer Bainomugisha, Patrizio Pelliccione, Thorsten Berger
Published in: Journal of Computer Languages, Issue 85, 2025, ISSN 2590-1184
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COLA.2025.101330

BaaSLess: Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS)-Enabled Workflows in Federated Serverless Infrastructures

Author(s): Thomas Larcher, Philipp Gritsch, Stefan Nastic, Sashko Ristov
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2168-7161
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2024.3439268

Real-Time Big Data Pipelines for Industrial Robot Digital Twins: An OMPL Benchmarking Framework

Author(s): Metin Yılmaz, Cem Suha Yılmaz, Serhat Kahraman, Uğur Yayan
Published in: Machines, Issue 14, 2026, ISSN 2075-1702
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/MACHINES14060702

Journal of Systems and Software

Author(s): Alessandra Somma, Domenico Amalfitano, Alessandra De Benedictis, Patrizio Pelliccione
Published in: Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Issue 231, 2025, ISSN 0164-1212
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSS.2025.112613

Task-to-accelerator mapping for predictable OpenMP applications

Author(s): Mohammad Samadi, Tiago Carvalho, Luís Miguel Pinho, Sara Royuela
Published in: Journal of Systems Architecture, Issue 179, 2026, ISSN 1383-7621
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SYSARC.2026.103901

Characterizing time-critical internet of things

Author(s): Sebastian Leclerc, Alessio Bucaioni, Mohammad Ashjaei
Published in: Internet of Things, Issue 34, 2026, ISSN 2542-6605
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.IOT.2025.101721

Change-aware round-trip benchmarking of LLMs for reliable and efficient artifact co-evolution

Author(s): Duy Dao, Alessio Bucaioni, Antonio Cicchetti
Published in: Journal of Systems and Software, Issue 241, 2026, ISSN 0164-1212
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSS.2026.113014

Edelta: a versatile framework for migrating clients’ EMF models

Author(s): Lorenzo Bettini, Amleto Di Salle, Ludovico Iovino
Published in: Software and Systems Modeling, 2026, ISSN 1619-1366
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10270-025-01357-3

A tool selection mechanism for LLM-based model management agents

Author(s): Zakaria Hachm, Théo Le Calvar, Hugo Bruneliere, Massimo Tisi
Published in: Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, Issue 22, 2026, ISSN 1614-5046
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S11334-026-00645-5

A checklist of quality concerns for architecting ML-intensive systems

Author(s): Alessio Bucaioni, Rick Kazman, Patrizio Pelliccione
Published in: Journal of Systems and Software, Issue 231, 2026, ISSN 0164-1212
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSS.2025.112612

Let’s read the log: root cause analysis of railway test execution logs with large language models

Author(s): Rahmanu Hermawan, Alessio Bucaioni, Eduard Enoiu, Wasif Afzal, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Nedim Zaimovic, Md Saleh Ibtasham
Published in: Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, Issue 22, 2026, ISSN 1614-5046
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S11334-026-00657-1

A Taxonomy of Bad Practices in Software Performance Testing: Insights from Gray Literature and Practitioner Validation

Author(s): Sergio Di Meglio, Luigi Libero Lucio Starace, Valeria Pontillo, Luana Martins, Dario Di Nucci, Fabio Palomba
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2026, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3821538

Different approaches for testing body sensor network applications

Author(s): Samira Silva, Ricardo Caldas, Patrizio Pelliccione, Antonia Bertolino
Published in: Journal of Systems and Software, Issue 223, 2025, ISSN 0164-1212
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2025.112336

EnseSmells : Deep ensemble and programming language models for automated code smells detection

Author(s): Anh Ho, Anh M.T. Bui, Phuong T. Nguyen, Amleto Di Salle, Bach Le
Published in: Journal of Systems and Software, Issue 224, 2025, ISSN 0164-1212
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSS.2025.112375

Artificial Intelligence Support for Software Architecture Practice: A Systematic Review and Future Directions

Author(s): Alessio Bucaioni, Martin Weyssow, Junda He, Yunbo Lyu, David Lo
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Issue 35, 2026, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3828546

Barriers and enablers for traceability and federation in model-based digital twin engineering

Author(s): Luca Berardinelli, Vittoriano Muttillo, Hugo Bruneliere, Romina Eramo, Alessio Bucaioni, Benoit Combemale, Sashko Ristov, Philipp Gritsch, Djamel Eddine Khelladi, Dao Khanh Duy, Rahmanu Hermawan, Andrey Sadovykh, Uğur Yayan
Published in: Information and Software Technology, Issue 199, 2026, ISSN 0950-5849
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.INFSOF.2026.108230

FMU-Based Multi Criteria Trajectory Validation of Industrial Robots

DAGless: Automating End-to-End Support for Serverless DAG Lifecycles With Cost-Efficient Execution

Author(s): Philipp Gritsch, Simon Triendl, Sashko Ristov
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Issue 14, 2026, ISSN 2168-7161
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2026.3717022

Task-to-Accelerator Mapping for Heterogeneous Systems Using Heuristics

Author(s): Mohammad Samadi, Tiago Carvalho, Luís Miguel Pinho, Sara Royuela
Published in: ACM SIGAda Ada Letters, Issue 45, 2026, ISSN 1094-3641
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3821489.3821491

Pythonic vs Refactorable Pythonic: On the relationship between Pythonic idioms and code quality in machine learning projects

Author(s): Gerardo Festa, Giammaria Giordano, Valeria Pontillo, Massimiliano Di Penta, Damian A. Tamburri, Fabio Palomba
Published in: Information and Software Technology, Issue 197, 2026, ISSN 0950-5849
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.INFSOF.2025.108009

Engineering Digital Systems for Humanity: a Research Roadmap

Author(s): Marco Autili, Martina De Sanctis, Paola Inverardi, Patrizio Pelliccione
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3712006

A checklist of quality concerns for architecting ML-intensive systems

Author(s): Alessio Bucaioni, Rick Kazman, Patrizio Pelliccione
Published in: Journal of Systems and Software, Issue 231, 2025, ISSN 0164-1212
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JSS.2025.112612

Enhancing IoT Edge Platforms: Selecting an MQTT-Compatible Broker for Kubernetes Environments

Author(s): Bahareh Aghajanpour, Alessio Bucaioni, Gabriele Capannini
Published in: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, The 22nd International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations (ITNG 2025), 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-89063-5_48

Tanned-ReLU: A Bounded and Smooth Activation Function for Reliable Deep Learning on Chaotic Multi-variate Data

Author(s): Saifullah Khan, Keijo Haataja, Pekka Toivanen
Published in: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Business Modeling and Software Design, 2026
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-98033-6_17

Tanned-ReLU: A Bounded and Smooth Activation Function for Reliable Deep Learning on Chaotic Multi-variate Data

LogGenST: A Framework for Synthetic Log Generation Using LLMs for Smart-Troubleshooting

Author(s): Sania Partovian, Francesco Flammini, Alessio Bucaioni, Johan Thornadtsson
Published in: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Software, System, and Service Engineering, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-84913-8_3

AI-Powered Semantic Search for Historical Documentation: A Collaborative Research with Hitachi Energy

Author(s): Ivan Kelly Maranan Hansson, Edvin Wiklund, Alessio Bucaioni, Luciana Provenzano
Published in: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, The 22nd International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations (ITNG 2025), 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-89063-5_44

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