Jan Carlson is a professor in computer science, specializing in software engineering. He received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Linköping University in 2000, and his doctoral degree from Mälardalen University in 2007 with the thesis entitled "Event Pattern Detection for Embedded Systems".

Jans current research focuses on model-based software and systems development, addressing areas such as artifact consistency, architectural decision support, allocation optimization, model-level timing analysis, code generation, and the combination of model-based development and continuous integration practices. Along another line of research topics, he also works on real-time analysis, in particular focusing on shared stack usage and execution time analysis under limited preemption scheduling.

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Latest publications:

Core Ontology Usability: From a Formalized Knowledge Base to the Development of a System of Systems Domain Understanding (Mar 2026)
Joyce Martin, Jakob Axelsson, Jan Carlson
Systems 14(3) (Systems)

Identifying Incentives for More Systematic Modeling of Industrial Software-Intensive Systems (Mar 2026)
Ifrah Qaisar, Jan Carlson, Robbert Jongeling, Antonio Cicchetti, Malvina Latifaj, Federico Ciccozzi
14th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering (MODELSWARD 2026)

Mapping a System of Systems Core Ontology to a Foundational Ontology (Mar 2026)
Joyce Martin, Jakob Axelsson, Jan Carlson
14th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering (MODELSWARD 2026)

Incremental Formalization for Informal Architectural Diagramming (Mar 2026)
Malvina Latifaj, Jan Carlson, Antonio Cicchetti, Robbert Jongeling, Ifrah Qaisar
14th International Conference on Model-Based Software and Systems Engineering (MODELSWARD 2026)

Adopting the C4 model for lightweight architecture modeling -- An experience report (Sep 2025)
Robbert Jongeling, Niels Jørgen Strøm , Lars Peter Torp Nissen , Martin Kitchen , Jan Carlson
51st Euromicro Conference Series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA'25)

Predicting Execution Time of Concurrent Applications Using Performance Counters (Apr 2025)
Shamoona Imtiaz, Moris Behnam, Gabriele Capannini, Jan Carlson, Marcus Jägemar
IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 2025 (ICIT'25)

Project Title	Status
ACICS - Assured Cloud Platforms for Industrial Cyber-physical Systems	finished
ARRAY - Automation Region Research Academy	active
ASSIST - Analysis and Synthesis of Industrial Software Systems	finished
CoDig - Continuous Digitalization	active
CONTESSE - Contract-Based Components for Embedded Software	finished
DICES - Distributed Component-based Embedded Software Systems	finished
High Level Languages for Hard and Embedded Real-Time Systems	finished
MINEStrA: Model Integration for Early Simulation and Analysis	finished
Mission and Capability Engineering for Systems-of-Systems	active
MOMENTUM: analysis of models towards compilation to predictable embedded real-time and safety-critical applications	finished
ORION - Decision Support for Component-Based Software Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems	finished
PG-CBD-IDE – Integration Development Environment	finished
PreView: Developing Predictable Vehicle Software on Multi-core	finished
PROGRESS	finished
RALF3 - Software for Embedded High Performance Architectures	finished
SafeCer - Safety Certification of Software-Intensive Systems with Reusable Components	finished
SC: Evolution Support for Architectural Artefacts	finished
SMARTCore: Model-driven support for deployment optimization of embedded systems on multicore	finished
Software Center	active
Software Center: Managing Model Inconsistencies	active
SYNOPSIS - Safety Analysis for Predictable Software Intensive Systems	finished
XIVT - eXcellence in Variant Testing	finished

PhD students supervised as main supervisor:

Filip Markovic (former)
Gabriel Campeanu (former)
Ifrah Qaisar
Robbert Jongeling (former)

PhD students supervised as assistant supervisor:

Ana Petricic (former)
Chengmeng Li (former)
Henrik Gustavsson
Irfan Sljivo (former)
Josip Maras (former)
Joyce Martin
Juraj Feljan (former)
Luka Lednicki (former)
Shamoona Imtiaz

MSc theses supervised (or examined):

Thesis Title	Status
Data and control flow analysis for industrial systems developed in IEC 61499	available
Eliciting correlations between components selection decision cases in software architecting	available
Model-level timing analysis for UML-RT capsules	available
A Quality-driven approach to architect software design	in progress
A software modeling environment based on UML for small touch devices	in progress
An Evaluation of Model-based Testing in Industrial Practice: From System Modelling to Test Generation	in progress
Master thesis: supporting synchronous modelling in distributed development environments	in progress
Master thesis: Versionshantering i industriella miljöer	in progress
Migrating and evaluating a test environment from dynamically to statically typed language	in progress
A comparative study of responsive web design frameworks in security vulnerability	finished
A Framework for Data Mining and Events Correlation on Telecommunication System Logs	finished
A migration method for legacy mobile applications	finished
Application for debugging and calibration of an underwater robot	finished
Cloud-centric software architecture for industrial product-service systems	finished
Consistent integration of system and software models at different levels of abstraction	finished
Data dependency analysis in industrial systems	finished
Effectiveness Of Fault Prediction	finished
En studie kring komponentisering av legacysystem och dess fördelar	finished
Enhancing the consistency between requirements and test cases through the definition of a Controlled Natural Language	finished
Ett intranetbaserat system för dokumentationshantering	finished
Flervägs dataanalysator för seriell data	finished
From the Object Constraint Language Standard Library to C++	finished
Guidelines for UML or SysML modeling within an enterprise architecture	finished
Guidelines for UML or SysML modelling within an enterprise architecture	finished
Improving a Graphical Turntable Simulator	finished
Integrating an event detection algebra in C#	finished
Model-Driven Engineering for Mobile Robot Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study	finished
Modernisering av Javabaserade webbapplikationer	finished
On-board Diagnostics Framework	finished
ProCom middleware	finished
The Progress run-time architecture	finished
Visual Studio add-in to add a logging service to COM components for smart devices	finished
A lightweight analysis framework for Progress IDE	on-hold
A Real-Time Java realization of the ProCom component model	on-hold
Intranet solutions for large companies using SharePoint	on-hold
Master thesis: Measuring ontology awareness of model differencing approaches.	on-hold
Simulation-based optimization of dual non-crossing stacking cranes	on-hold
Synthesizing Activation and Local Interactions of ProCom Components	on-hold
Synthesizing Instantiation and Local Interactions of ProCom Components	on-hold

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