@inproceedings{schuler2026architecting,
  author    = {Schuler, Nicolas S.},
  title     = {Architecting Self-Adaptive Systems with Learned and Symbolic Components},
  booktitle = {Software Architecture: ECSA 2026 Tracks and Workshops},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Doctoral Symposium. To appear. Preprint: \url{https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000195259}}
}

@mastersthesis{schuler2020thesis,
  author = {Schuler, Nicolas S.},
  title  = {Verteilte Nutzungskontrolle und Provenance Tracking am Beispiel von Cloud-Technologien},
  school = {Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)},
  type   = {Bachelor's thesis},
  year   = {2020},
  doi    = {10.5445/IR/1000128308}
}

@inproceedings{schuler2025bridging,
  author    = {Schuler, Nicolas S. and Scotti, Vincenzo and Camilli, Matteo and Mirandola, Raffaela},
  title     = {Bridging Explanations and Logics: Opportunities for Multimodal Language Models},
  booktitle = {Bridging the Gap Between AI and Reality (AISoLA 2025)},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year      = {2025},
  note      = {Formal Methods for Intersymbolic AI track. Preprint: \url{https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000184717}}
}

@misc{schuler2026attribution,
  author       = {Schuler, Nicolas S. and Camilli, Matteo and Scotti, Vincenzo and Mirandola, Raffaela},
  title        = {Metric-Guided Attribution Fusion in Explainable Federated Learning: An Empirical Evaluation},
  howpublished = {SSRN preprint},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {10.2139/ssrn.7129255},
  note         = {Submitted to Information Fusion}
}

@mastersthesis{schuler2025thesis,
  author = {Schuler, Nicolas S.},
  title  = {Integrating Explainability into Federated Learning: A Non-functional Requirement Perspective},
  school = {Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)},
  year   = {2025},
  url    = {https://n-schuler.dev/media/docs/ma-thesis.pdf}
}

@misc{schuler2026seams,
  author        = {Schuler, Nicolas S. and Scotti, Vincenzo and Mirandola, Raffaela},
  title         = {Beyond Monolithic Models: Symbolic Seams for Composable Neuro-Symbolic Architectures},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2603.15087},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.SE},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2603.15087}
}

@inproceedings{schuler2026tracegate,
  author    = {Schuler, Nicolas S. and Mate, Balint and Scotti, Vincenzo and Mirandola, Raffaela},
  title     = {{TraceGate}: Policy-Based Disclosure of Structured Crash Evidence for {LLM}-Assisted Debugging},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2026)},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  year      = {2026},
  note      = {Research track. To appear. Preprint: \url{https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000195694}}
}

@inproceedings{schuler2026tracegatetool,
  author    = {Schuler, Nicolas S. and Scotti, Vincenzo and Mirandola, Raffaela},
  title     = {{TraceGate}: A Framework for Policy-Controlled Failure Evidence in {LLM}-Assisted Program Repair},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2026)},
  year      = {2026},
  doi       = {10.1145/3832783.3834596},
  note      = {Tools and Datasets track. To appear}
}

@unpublished{schuler2026weakintent,
  author = {Schuler, Nicolas S. and Scotti, Vincenzo and Mirandola, Raffaela},
  title  = {When Weak Intent Becomes a Requirement: Limits of Uncertainty Signals in {LLM}-Assisted Requirements Engineering},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {Submitted to the Journal of Systems and Software. Replication package: \url{https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22802187}}
}