Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Horst Lichter

About me

I had the great pleasure and honor of heading the Software Construction (SWC) Research Group at RWTH Aachen University from 1998 to 2026.

Before that, I worked at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich and at the ABB Research Center in Heidelberg. Those years were extremely important for my understanding of software engineering, and I am grateful to these companies for allowing me to gain such diverse experience.

At the SWC, we always worked on and conducted research into practical, real-world software engineering problems (in the sense of “use-inspired basic research”). Many companies supported us in this effort through research collaborations, some of which lasted for many years. My thanks go out to all of them!

Above all, however, my deepest thanks go to everyone on my team with whom I had the privilege of working at the SWC. It was always a pleasure!


My short CV


Latest PC Memberships

  • ENASE-2027: 22nd International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, Rome, Italy, April 20-22, 2027.
  • MODELSWARD-2027: 15th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering, Valletta, Malta, February 19–21, 2027.
  • QuASoQ-2026: 13th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality, Bali, Indonesia, December 7, 2026.
  • APSEC-2026: 33rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Bali, Indonesia, December 7-10, 2026.
  • SAC-2026: 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Software Engineering Track, Thessaloniki, Greece, March 23-27, 2026.
  • ENASE-2026: 21st International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, Benidorm, Spain, May 22-24, 2026.
  • APSEC-ERA-2025: 32nd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Early Research Achievements Track, Macao, SAR, December 3-6, 2025.
  • APSEC-2025: 32nd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Macao, SAR, December 2-5, 2025.
  • IWCT-2025: 14th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing, Naples, Italy, March 31 – April 4, 2025.
  • SAC-2025: 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Software Engineering Track, Sicily, Italy, March 31 - April 4, 2025.

Here you will find a complete list of my memberships on program committees.


Some Profiles

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Prof. Horst Lichter
Head of Group

Publications

Latest publications:

  • Alex Mattukat, Horst Lichter (2026)
    A Catalog of User Authentication Patterns. In Proceedings of 33rd Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, People, and Practices, PLoP 2026 (to be published), October, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
  • Ada Slupczynski, Leila Mangonaux, Ilija Kovacevic, Michal Slupczynski, Stefan Decker, Horst Lichter (2026)
    Collaborative Code Modernization with Local LLM Deployment and Evidence-Based Prompt Guidelines. In 21st International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2026), Benidorm, Spain, May 22-24, SciTePress – Science and Technology Publications, Lda, Vol. 1, ISBN 978-989-758-828-0, 825-832.
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  • Alex Mattukat, Florian Braun, Horst Lichter (2026)
    Can ChatGPT Generate Realistic Synthetic System Requirement Specifications? Results of a Case Study. In Computing Research Repository (CoRR), Vol. 2603.09335, arXiv.
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