I am a Reader in Software Engineering and Deputy Head of Department (Education) at the Department of Informatics at King's College London (see what student's have to say) and a Visiting Scientist at the Francis Crick Institute. I am a member of the Software Systems (SSY) group. I also direct MDENet: the expert network for model-driven engineering.

I came here from Lancaster University, UK, where I was a Marie-Curie Fellow. Before that, I had been a PhD student and research associate with Technische Universität Dresden, Germany.

In 2007, I received my doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) from Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. My doctoral thesis was in the area of non-functional properties of component-based systems and was awarded summa cum laude.

Outside of work, I am most likely to be found a) in front of a book reading stories (well, anything, actually), or b) in rehearsals working on some new theatre play.

Alexandru Burdusel, Steffen Zschaler, and Stefan John: Automatic Generation of Atomic Multiplicity Preserving Search Operators for Search-Based Model Engineering. SoSyM Special Issue on MODELS 2019, 2021.
[pdf] [http] Refereed Journal Article,  research areas: Model-Driven Development
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Steffen Zschaler and Fiona Polack: A Family of Languages for Trustworthy Agent-Based Simulation. 13th International Conference on Software Language Engineering, 2020.
Distinguished Short Paper Award
[pdf] [http] [bibtex] [additional material] Refereed Conference Paper,  research areas: Model-Driven Development, Modularity
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Stefan John, Alexandru Burdusel, Robert Bill, Daniel Strüber, Gabriele Taentzer, Steffen Zschaler, and Manuel Wimmer: Searching for Optimal Models: Comparing Two Encoding Approaches. 12th International Conference on Model Transformations (ICMT'19), 2019.
[pdf] [bibtex] [additional material] Refereed Conference Paper,  research areas: Model-Driven Development
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Lucy Yeomans, Steffen Zschaler, and Kelly Coate: Transformative and Troublesome? Students’ and Professional programmers’ perspectives on difficult concepts in programming. ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) 19(3), 2019.
[pdf] [http] Refereed Journal Article,  research areas: Teaching
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Josh Murphy, Alexandru Burdusel, Michael Luck, Steffen Zschaler and Elizabeth Black: Deriving Persuasion Strategies Using Search-Based Model Engineering. 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA'18), 2018.
[pdf] Refereed Conference Paper,  research areas: Model-Driven Development
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Steffen Zschaler and Francisco Duran: GTS Families for the Flexible Composition of Graph Transformation Systems. 20th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE'17), 2017.
[pdf ((c) Springer)] [slides] [http] [bibtex] Refereed Conference Paper,  research areas: Model-Driven Development, Modularity
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Rick Salay, Steffen Zschaler, and Marsha Chechik: Correct Reuse of Transformations is Hard to Guarantee. 9th International Conference on Model Transformations (ICMT'16), 2016.
[slides] [http] [bibtex] Refereed Conference Paper,  research areas: Model-Driven Development, Modularity
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Francisco Durán, Antonio Moreno-Delgado, Fernando Orejas, and Steffen Zschaler: Amalgamation of Domain Specific Languages with Behaviour. Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming, 86(1): 208--235, Jan. 2017, 2017.
[pdf] [http] [bibtex] Refereed Journal Article,  research areas: Model-Driven Development, Modularity, Non-functional Properties
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Francisco Duran, Steffen Zschaler, and Javier Troya: On the Reusable Specification of Non-functional Properties in DSLs. Proc. 5th Int'l Conf. on Software Language Engineering (SLE 2012), LNCS vol. 7745, pp. 332--351, Springer, 2012.
Acceptance rate: 32%
[pdf (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.)] [slides] [http] [bibtex] [additional material] Refereed Conference Paper,  research areas: Model-Driven Development, Modularity, Non-functional Properties
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Steffen Zschaler: Formal Specification of Non-functional Properties of Component-Based Software Systems: A Semantic Framework and Some Applications Thereof. Software and Systems Modelling Journal (SoSyM) 9(2):161-- 201, 2010.
[pdf] [http] [bibtex] [additional material] Refereed Journal Article,  research areas: Modularity, Non-functional Properties
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