Arend Rensink

Personal profile

I am fascinated and inspired by how systems work, in their composition from small interacting building blocks. This has always applied to computer systems; more and more I also include organisational and social systems in my sphere of interest, in particular where it concerns the university educational system.

After understanding why a system works, or doesn't work, the question of improvement arises. I usually do not take for granted that things must be the way they currently are, even after understanding why they are that way. Change, however, is not easily brought about: in software, the (lack of) maintainability stands in the way, in organisations it is typically inertia and lack of motivation for change.

External positions

Akademischer Rat

1 Sep 1993 → 30 Sep 1993

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Research Output

Contents for a Model-Based Software Engineering Body of Knowledge

Burgueño, L., Ciccozzi, F., Famelis, M., Kappel, G., Lambers, L., Mosser, S., Paige, R. F., Pierantonio, A., Rensink, A., Salay, R., Taentzer, G., Vallecillo, A. & Wimmer, M., 1 Dec 2019, In : Software and systems modeling. 18, 6, p. 3193-3205 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

File

19 Downloads (Pure)

Rewriting Abstract Structures: Materialization Explained Categorically

Corradini, A., Heindel, T., König, B., Nolte, D. & Rensink, A., 1 Jan 2019, Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures: 22nd International Conference, FOSSACS 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019, Proceedings. Simpson, A. & Bojanczyk, M. (eds.). Cham: Springer Verlag, p. 169-188 20 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11425 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

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1 Citation (Scopus)

10 Downloads (Pure)

A tutorial on graph transformation

König, B., Nolte, D., Padberg, J. & Rensink, A., 7 Feb 2018, Graph Transformation, Specifications, and Nets: In Memory of Hartmut Ehrig. Heckel, R. & Taentzer, G. (eds.). Springer, p. 83-104 22 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 10800).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

File

3 Citations (Scopus)

47 Downloads (Pure)

Designing Reusable and Run-Time Evolvable Scheduling Software

Orhan, G., Aksit, M. & Rensink, A., 28 Aug 2018, p. 339-373. 35 p.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

Open Access

Effective Analysis of Attack Trees: A Model-Driven Approach

Kumar, R., Schivo, S., Ruijters, E. J. J., Yildiz, B. M., Huistra, D. J., Brandt, J., Rensink, A. & Stoelinga, M. I. A., Apr 2018, Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE 2018). Russo, A. & Schürr, A. (eds.). Springer, p. 56-73 18 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 10802).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

File

8 Citations (Scopus)

164 Downloads (Pure)

Activities

16 Oral presentation
12 Organising a conference, workshop, ...
2 Invited talk

Educators Symposium 2019

Fiona Polack (Chair), Arend Rensink (Chair)

17 Sep 2019

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...

What is Software Change?

Arend Rensink (Speaker)

12 Apr 2019

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

11th International Conference on Model Transformation, ICMT 2018

Arend Rensink (Chair), Jesús Sánchez Cuadrado (Chair)

25 Jul 2018

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...

Defining Software Change

Arend Rensink (Speaker)

Jan 2018

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Symposium on Model-Ed, Test-Ed, Trust-Ed in honour of Ed Brinksma on the occasion of his 60th birthday, 2017

Joost P. Katoen (Organiser), Rom Langerak (Organiser), Arend Rensink (Organiser)

17 Oct 2017

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...