Publications

PhD

12 October 2026	TraceGate: A Framework for Policy-Controlled Failure Evidence in LLM-Assisted Program Repair ASE'26 Tools and Data Sets track Nicolas S. Schuler, Vincenzo Scotti, and Raffaela Mirandola
27 July 2026	TraceGate: Policy-Based Disclosure of Structured Crash Evidence for LLM-Assisted Debugging KIT preprint, accepted at the ISSRE'26 Research Track Nicolas S. Schuler, Balint Mate, Vincenzo Scotti, and Raffaela Mirandola
16 July 2026	Metric-Guided Attribution Fusion in Explainable Federated Learning: An Empirical Evaluation SSRN preprint, submitted to the Information Fusion Journal Nicolas S. Schuler, Matteo Camilli, Vincenzo Scotti, and Raffaela Mirandola
15 July 2026	Architecting Self-Adaptive Systems with Learned and Symbolic Components ECSA'26 Doctoral Symposium Nicolas S. Schuler
16 March 2026	Beyond Monolithic Models: Symbolic Seams for Composable Neuro-Symbolic Architectures arXiv preprint Nicolas S. Schuler, Vincenzo Scotti, and Raffaela Mirandola
9 July 2025	Bridging Explanations and Logics: Opportunities for Multimodal Language Models AISoLA'25 track Formal Methods for Intersymbolic AI Nicolas S. Schuler, Vincenzo Scotti, Matteo Camilli, and Raffaela Mirandola

Pre-PhD

5 May 2025	Master's Thesis: Integrating Explainability into Federated Learning: A Non-functional Requirement Perspective (minisign signature) – at the Self-adaptive Software-intensive Systems (SASIS) group, KIT Grade: 1.0 (German scale; 1.0 is the best grade)
13 January 2021	Bachelor's Thesis: Verteilte Nutzungskontrolle und Provenance Tracking am Beispiel von Cloud-Technologien – in cooperation with the Fraunhofer IOSB, KIT Grade: 1.3