Publication List of Alexander Boll

Conference & Journal Papers

R. Bögli, A. Boll, A. Schultheiß, T. Kehrer: Community-Driven Variability: Characterizing a new Software Variability Paradigm, ASE 2026.

M. Ohrndorf, A. Boll, R. Bögli, T. Kehrer: Turning Merge Conflicts Into Conflict-Induced Variability, ICSE 2026.

A. Boll, M. Ohrndorf, T. Kehrer. SMOKE2.0 Whitebox Anonymizing Intellectual Property in Models While Preserving Structure, preprint.

A. Schultheiß, A. Boll, P. Bittner, S. Greiner, T. Thüm, T. Kehrer: Decades of GNU Patch and Git Cherry-Pick: Can We Do Better?, ICSE 2026.

R. Bögli, A. Boll, A. Schultheiß, T. Kehrer. Beyond Software Families: Community Driven Variability, FSE 2025.

P. Valenzuela-Toledo, C. Wu, S. Hernández, A. Boll, R. Machacek, S. Panichella, T. Kehrer. Explaining GitHub Actions Failures with Large Language Models: Challenges, Insights, and Limitations, ICPC 2025.

P. Rani, J.-A. Bard, J. Sallou, A. Boll, T. Kehrer, A. Bacchelli, Can We Make Code Green? Understanding Trade-Offs in LLMs vs. Human Code Optimizations, arxiv 2025.

A. Boll, T. Kehrer, M. Goedicke: SMOKE: Simulink Model Obfuscator Keeping Structure, MODELS 2024.

A. Boll, Y. van Dok, M. Ohrndorf, A. Schultheiß, T. Kehrer: Towards Semi-Automated Merge Conflict Resolution: Is It Easier Than We Expected?, EASE 2024.

A. Boll, P. Rani, A. Schultheiß, T. Kehrer Beyond code: Is there a difference between comments in visual and textual languages?, JSS 2024.

S. Shrestha, A. Boll, T. Kehrer, C. Csallner: ScoutSL: An Open-Source Simulink Search Engine, MODELS 2023.

S. Shrestha, A. Boll, S. Chowdhury, T. Kehrer, C. Csallner: EvoSL: A Large Open-Source Corpus of Changes in Simulink Models & Projects, MODELS 2023.

T. Amorim, A. Boll, F. Bachmann, T. Kehrer, A. Vogelsang, H. Pohlheim: Simulink bus usage in practice: an empirical study, JOT 2023.

A. Schultheiß, P. Bittner, A. Boll, L. Grunske, T. Thüm, T. Kehrer: RaQuN: a generic and scalable n-way model matching algorithm, SoSyM 2022.

A. Boll, N. Vieregg, T. Kehrer: Replicability of experimental tool evaluations in model-based software and systems engineering with MATLAB/Simulink, ISSE 2022.

A. Boll, F. Brokhausen, T. Amorim, A. Vogelsang, T. Kehrer: Characteristics, Potentials, and Limitations of Open Source Simulink Projects for Empirical Research, SoSyM 2021.

A. Boll, T. Kehrer: On the Replicability of Experimental Tool Evaluations in Model-Based Development, ICSMM 2020.

A. Schultheiß, A. Boll, T. Kehrer: Comparison of Graph-based Model Transformation Rules, JOT 2020.

Other work

A. Boll: Bridging the Data Desert: Mitigating Challenges of Model Accessibility in Simulink Research, PhD Thesis 2025.

A. Boll, T. Kehrer: A Multi-Modal Community Quest for Open Data, rejected at IDCC25.

A. Boll: Limitations of Self Citation, Fun Short Paper 2023.

A. Boll: Formale Instanzverifikation zertifizierender verteilter Algorithmen, MSc Thesis 2019. (in German)

Contact

email: alexander.boll@unibe.ch

ORCID: 0000-0002-9881-9748

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