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most citedFrom Digital Twins to Digital Twin Prototypes: Concepts, Formalization, and Applications

42 citations · 99 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.SE2026

Analysis and Visualization of the Linux Kernel's Software Evolution Using the City Metaphor

Malte Hansen, Lukas Damerau, Moritz Bugla +2

The Linux kernel is one of the largest and longest-maintained open source projects in existence. With more than 40 million lines of code, understanding the kernel's internal struct…

cs.SE2026

A Chat Assistant for Software Exploration in a 3D Software Visualization

Malte Hansen, Karim Issa, Wilhelm Hasselbring

We present a chat assistant for interactive software exploration, embedded in the 3D software visualization tool ExplorViz. The assistant builds upon current Large Language Models…

cs.SE2025

HTML Structure Exploration in 3D Software Cities

Malte Hansen, David Moreno-Lumbreras, Wilhelm Hasselbring

Software visualization, which uses data from dynamic program analysis, can help to explore and understand the behavior of software systems. It is common that large software systems…

cs.SE2025

Semantic Zoom and Mini-Maps for Software Cities

Malte Hansen, Jens Bamberg, Noe Baumann +1

Software visualization tools can facilitate program comprehension by providing visual metaphors, or abstractions that reduce the amount of textual data that needs to be processed m…

cs.SE2024

Instrumentation of Software Systems with OpenTelemetry for Software Visualization

Malte Hansen, Wilhelm Hasselbring

As software systems grow in complexity, data and tools that provide valuable insights for easier program comprehension become increasingly important. OpenTelemetry has become a sta…

cs.SE2024

Interoperability From Kieker to OpenTelemetry: Demonstrated as Export to ExplorViz

David Georg Reichelt, Malte Hansen, Shinhyung Yang +1

While the observability framework Kieker has a low overhead for tracing, its results currently cannot be used in most analysis tools due to lack of interoperability of the data for…

cs.SE2024★ 1 cited

A Software Visualization Approach for Multiple Visual Output Devices

Malte Hansen, Heiko Bielfeldt, Armin Bernstetter +2

As software systems grow, environments that not only facilitate program comprehension through software visualization but also enable collaborative exploration of software systems b…

cs.SE2024★ 2 cited

Toward Reproducibility of Digital Twin Research: Exemplified with the PiCar-X

Alexander Barbie, Wilhelm Hasselbring

Digital twins are becoming increasingly relevant in the Industrial Internet of Things and Industry 4.0, enhancing the capabilities and quality of various applications. However, the…

cs.SE2024

Collaborative Design and Planning of Software Architecture Changes via Software City Visualization

Alexander Krause-Glau, Malte Hansen, Wilhelm Hasselbring

Developers usually use diagrams and source code to jointly discuss and plan software architecture changes. With this poster, we present our on-going work on a novel approach that e…

cs.SE2024★ 2 cited

Visual Integration of Static and Dynamic Software Analysis in Code Reviews via Software City Visualization

Alexander Krause-Glau, Lukas Damerau, Malte Hansen +1

Software visualization approaches for code reviews are often implemented as standalone applications, which use static code analysis. The goal is to visualize the structural changes…

cs.SE2024★ 42 cited

From Digital Twins to Digital Twin Prototypes: Concepts, Formalization, and Applications

Alexander Barbie, Wilhelm Hasselbring

The transformation to Industry 4.0 also transforms the processes of how we develop intelligent manufacturing production systems. To advance the software development of these new (e…

cs.SE2023★ 5 cited

Enabling Automated Integration Testing of Smart Farming Applications via Digital Twin Prototypes

Alexander Barbie, Wilhelm Hasselbring, Malte Hansen

Industry 4.0 represents a major technological shift that has the potential to transform the manufacturing industry, making it more efficient, productive, and sustainable. Smart far…

cs.SE2023★ 8 cited

Embedded Software Development with Digital Twins: Specific Requirements for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Alexander Barbie, Wilhelm Hasselbring

The transformation to Industry 4.0 changes the way embedded software systems are developed. Digital twins have the potential for cost-effective software development and maintenance…

cs.SE2023★ 39 cited

Benchmarking scalability of stream processing frameworks deployed as microservices in the cloud

Sören Henning, Wilhelm Hasselbring

Context: The combination of distributed stream processing with microservice architectures is an emerging pattern for building data-intensive software systems. In such systems, stre…