Simon Helsen

3.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
12 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Simon Helsen is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Helsen has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 5 papers in Information Systems and 5 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Simon Helsen's work include Logic, programming, and type systems (5 papers), Formal Methods in Verification (5 papers) and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (4 papers). Simon Helsen is often cited by papers focused on Logic, programming, and type systems (5 papers), Formal Methods in Verification (5 papers) and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (4 papers). Simon Helsen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Canada and United States. Simon Helsen's co-authors include Krzysztof Czarnecki, Ulrich W. Eisenecker, Peter Thiemann, Michael Murphree, Laurence Tratt, Jim Steel, Keith Duddy, Xavier Blanc, Shane Sendall and Cristiano Calcagno and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Software, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems and Lecture notes in computer science.

In The Last Decade

Simon Helsen

12 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Feature-based survey of model transformation approaches

2006 543 citations Krzysztof Czarnecki, Simon Helsen IBM Systems Journal profile →
Classification of Model Transformation Approaches

2003 402 citations Krzysztof Czarnecki, Simon Helsen profile →
Formalizing cardinality‐based feature models and their specialization

2005 362 citations Krzysztof Czarnecki, Simon Helsen et al. Software Process Improvement and Practice profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Helsen Germany	7	1.2k	1.2k	990	378	267	12	1.7k
Ivan Kurtev Netherlands	13	913 0.8×	807 0.7×	989 1.0×	250 0.7×	263 1.0×	39	1.4k
Bernhard Westfechtel Germany	18	994 0.8×	860 0.7×	606 0.6×	302 0.8×	322 1.2×	108	1.4k
Frédéric Jouault France	14	1.0k 0.8×	899 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	300 0.8×	282 1.1×	45	1.5k
Alfonso Pierantonio Italy	23	1.1k 0.9×	934 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	446 1.2×	260 1.0×	132	1.8k
Jean Bézivín France	15	1.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	379 1.0×	341 1.3×	57	1.9k
Andy Schürr Germany	21	818 0.7×	929 0.8×	956 1.0×	394 1.0×	112 0.4×	138	1.5k
Ed Merks Canada	4	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	426 1.1×	321 1.2×	6	1.9k
Frank Budinsky Canada	7	1.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	490 1.3×	344 1.3×	8	2.2k
Juha‐Pekka Tolvanen United States	15	797 0.7×	770 0.6×	921 0.9×	197 0.5×	309 1.2×	55	1.4k
Ulrich W. Eisenecker Germany	8	1.7k 1.4×	1.9k 1.6×	755 0.8×	569 1.5×	177 0.7×	23	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Helsen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Helsen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Helsen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simon Helsen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simon Helsen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Simon Helsen. Simon Helsen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Helsen, Simon, et al.. (2008). Where's My Jetpack?. IEEE Software. 25(5). 18–21. 2 indexed citations

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Czarnecki, Krzysztof & Simon Helsen. (2006). Feature-based survey of model transformation approaches. IBM Systems Journal. 45(3). 621–645. 543 indexed citations breakdown →

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Czarnecki, Krzysztof, Simon Helsen, & Ulrich W. Eisenecker. (2005). Formalizing cardinality‐based feature models and their specialization. Software Process Improvement and Practice. 10(1). 7–29. 362 indexed citations breakdown →

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Murphree, Michael, Keith Duddy, Shane Sendall, et al.. (2005). MOF QVT final adopted specification: meta object facility (MOF) 2.0 query/view/transformation specification.. 102 indexed citations

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Czarnecki, Krzysztof, Simon Helsen, & Ulrich W. Eisenecker. (2005). Staged configuration through specialization and multilevel configuration of feature models. Software Process Improvement and Practice. 10(2). 143–169. 245 indexed citations

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Czarnecki, Krzysztof, Simon Helsen, & Ulrich W. Eisenecker. (2004). Staged configuration using feature models. 2 indexed citations

7.

Helsen, Simon & Peter Thiemann. (2004). Polymorphic specialization for ML. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 26(4). 652–701. 1 indexed citations

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Helsen, Simon. (2004). Bisimilarity for the Region Calculus. LISP and Symbolic Computation. 17(4). 347–394. 1 indexed citations

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Czarnecki, Krzysztof & Simon Helsen. (2003). Classification of Model Transformation Approaches. 402 indexed citations breakdown →

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Calcagno, Cristiano, et al.. (2002). Syntactic Type Soundness Results for the Region Calculus. Information and Computation. 173(2). 199–221. 15 indexed citations

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Helsen, Simon & Peter Thiemann. (2001). Syntactic Type Soundness for the Region Calculus. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. 41(3). 1–19. 17 indexed citations

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Helsen, Simon & Peter Thiemann. (2000). Fragmental Specialization. Lecture notes in computer science. 51–71. 2 indexed citations

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