Publications

Publications

The partners of the OpenReq project have published books, book chapters, journal articles and papers in conferences and workshops. Also the project is the source for several PhD, MsC and BsC thesis, some finished, others ongoing. The list of publications is continuously updated.

Felfernig, Alexander; Stettinger, Martin; Falkner, Andreas; Atas, Müslüm; Franch, Xavier; Palomares, Christina
OpenReq: Recommender Systems in Requirements Engineering
RS-BDA’17, pages. 1-4. Graz, Austria, 2017.

Atas, Müslüm; Felfernig, Alexander; Stettinger, Martin; Tran, Thi Ngoc Trang
Beyond item recommendation: Using recommendations to stimulate knowledge sharing in group decisions
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo, volume 10540 LNCS, pages 368-377. Oxford, United Kingdom,  13-15 September 2017.

David Weiser, Walid Maalej
Prioritization of requirements related issues in open-source software projects
MSc Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2017

Borrull, Ricard; Costal, Dolors; Franch, Xavier; Quer, Carme
Research on NLP for RE at UPC: A Report
Workshop NLP4RE @ REFSQ’18.

Dalpiaz, Fabiano; Ferrari, Alessio; Franch, Xavier; Palomares:, Cristina
Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering: The Best Is Yet to Come.
IEEE Software, 35 (5), pp. 115-119, 2018, ISSN: 0740-7459.

Felfernig, Alexander; Boratto, Ludovico; Stettinger, Martin; Tkalčič, Marko
Group Recommender Systems. An Introduction
Springer Briefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2018.

Felfernig, Alexander; Walter, Rouven; Galindo, José A.; Benavides, David; Polat Erdeniz, Seda; Atas, Müslüm; Reiterer Stefan
Anytime diagnosis for reconfiguration
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems 2018.

Felfernig, Alexander; Spöcklberger, Johannes; Samer, Ralph; Stettinger, Martin; Atas, Müslüm; Tiihonen, Juha; Raatikainen, Mikko
Configuring Release Plans
Proceedings of the 20th Configuration Workshop, volume 2220., pages 9-14. Graz, Austria, 27-28 September 2018.

Felfernig, Alexander; Stettinger, Martin; Atas, Muslum; Samer, Ralph; Nerlich, Jennife; Scholz, Simon; Tiihonen, Juha; Raatikainen, Mikko
Towards Utility-Based Prioritization of Requirements in Open Source Environments
2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), pages 406-411. Banff, Alberta, Canada, 20-24August 2018.

Cedrik Wetjen, Walid Maalej
Automatisiertes UI-Testing für Cross-Plattform Mobile Apps
BSc Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2018

Burak Özfalci, Walid Maalej
Smart Glossary: A mobile App to support project meetings based on language and emotion detection
MSc Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2018

Arne Feil, Walid Maalej
Glossarduell: Missverständnisse in Software Projekten spielerisch vorbeugen
BSc Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2018

Timon Brüning, Walid Maalej
Integration und Visualisierung eines kontextsensitiven Dashboards für Studierende in großen Lehrveranstaltungen
BSc Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2018

Jakob Andersen, Walid Maalej
A Visual Analytics Framework for the Analysis of User Comments
MSc Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2018

Frederik Born, Walid Maalej
Modelling and implementation of a Liquid Democracy Approach to Requirements Engineering
BSc Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2018

Sascha Wichert, Walid Maalej
Agile Software Development in the large: Solutions for overall priorization of requirements and documentation using the example of a software product family
MSc Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2018

Fucci, Davide; Palomares, Cristina; Franch, Xavier; Costal, Dolors; Raatikainen, Mikko; Stettinger, Martin; Kurtanovic, Zijad; Kojo, Tero; Koenig, Lars; Falkner, Andreas; Schenner, Gottfried; Brasca, Fabrizio; Männistö, Tomi; Felfernig, Alexander; Maalej, Walid
Needs and Challenges for a Platform to Support Large-scale Requirements Engineering: A Multiple-case Study
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM ’18), pages 19:1-19:10. Oulu, Finland, 11-12 October 2018.

Fucci, Davide; Stanik, Christoph; Montgomery, Lloyd; Kurtanovic, Zijad; Johann, Timo; Maalej, Walid
Research on NLP for RE at the University of Hamburg: a Report
Workshop NLP4RE @ REFSQ’18.

Furnari, Carlos Adrián; Palomares, Cristina; Franch, Xavier
ORSIM: Integrating Existing Software Components to Detect Similar Natural Language Requirements
Posters and Tools Track @ REFSQ’18.

Johann, Timo; Stanik, Christoph; Alizadeh B., Alireza M; Maalej, Walid
SAFE: A Simple Approach for Feature Extraction from App Descriptions and App Reviews
IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), pages 21-30. Lisbon, Portugal, 2017.

Kurtanović, Zijad; Maalej, Walid
Mining User Rationale from Software Reviews
IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE),  pages 61-70. Lisbon, Portugal, 2017.

Kurtanović, Zijad; Maalej, Walid
Automatically Classifying Functional and Non-Functional Requirements Using Supervised Machine Learning
IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), pages 490-495. Lisbon, Portugal, 2017.

Kurtanović, Zijad; Maalej, Walid
On user rationale in software engineering
Requirements Engineering Journal, 2018

Kurtanović, Zijad; Maalej, Walid; Novielli, Nicole
Mining and Analyzing User Rationale in Software Engineering
PhD Thesis, 2018

Myllärniemi, Varvana; Kujala, Sari; Raatikainen, Mikko; Sevónn, Piia
Development as a journey: factors supporting the adoption and use of software frameworks
Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development 2018.

Mäenpää, Hanna; Raatikainen, Mikko; Tiihonen, Juha; Kojo, Tero; Männistö, Tomi
Intelligent, community-driven requirements engineering
Poster in poster session at OSS 2017: IFIP International Conference on Open Source Systems.

Palomares, Cristina; Franch, Xavier; Fucci, Davide
Personal Recommendations in Requirements Engineering: The OpenReq Approach
REFSQ 2018: Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality.

Polat Erdeniz, Seda; Felfernig, Alexander; Atas, Muesluem; Tran, Thi Ngoc Trang; Jeran, Michael; Stettinger, Martin
Cluster-Specific Heuristics for Constraint Solving
IEA/AIE 2017: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice.

Quer, Carme; Franch, Xavier; Palomares, Cristina; Falkner, Andreas; Felfernig, Alexander; Fucci, Davide; Maalej, Walid; Nerlich, Jennifer; Raatikainen, Mikko; Schenner, Gottfired; Stettinger, Martin; Tiihonen, Juha
Reconciling Practice and Rigour in Ontology-Based Heterogeneous Information Systems Construction
IFIP Working Conference on The Practice of Enterprise Modeling. Part of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing book series (LNBIP), volume 335, pages 205-220. Vienna, Austria, 31 October-2 November 2018.

Mäenpää H, Mäkinen S, Kilamo T, Mikkonen T, Männistö T, Ritala P.
Organizing for openness: six models for developer involvement in hybrid OSS projects
Journal of Internet Services and Applications. 2018 Dec

Raatikainen, Mikko; Tiihonen, Juha; Männistö, Tomi; Felfernig, Alexander; Stettinger, Martin; Samer, Ralph
Using a Feature Model Configurator for Release Planning
Proceedings of the 22Nd International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, volume 2, pages 29-33. Gothenburg, Sweden, 10-14 September 2018.

Ralyté, Jolita; Franch, Xavier
Using Contextual Goal Models for Constructing Situational Methods
37th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2018, Xi’an, China, 2018, ISBN: 978-3-030-00847-5.

Stanik, Christoph; Montgomery, Lloyd; Martens, Daniel; Fucci, Davide; Maalej, Walid
A Simple NLP-based Approach to Support Onboarding and Retention in Open-Source Communities
34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME’18).

Tiihonen, Juha; Raitahila, Iivo; Raatikainen, Mikko; Felfernig, Alexander; Männistö, Tomi
Generating Configuration Models from Requirements to Assist in Product Management: Dependency Engine and its Performance Assessment
Proceedings of the 20th Configuration Workshop, volume 2220, pages 69-76. Graz, Austria, 23 September 2018.

Mannov, Natalia, Clara Marie Lüders, and Alexey Kaznin
ReqVision: Digitising Your Analog Notes into Readable and Editable Data
2018 4th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Self-Adaptive, Collaborative, and Cyber Physical Systems (RESACS). IEEE, 2018.

Carlos Adrián Furnari, Xavier Franch Gutiérrez, Cristina Palomares Bonache
Comparación de componentes para extracción de dependencias de requisitos en lenguaje natural
BsC Thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018

Awais Iqbal Begum, Carme Quer Bosor, Cristina Palomares Bonache
Evolución de un componente para la reutilización de patrones de requisitos
BsC Thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018

Ricard Borrull Baraut, Prof. Xavier Franch, Dr. Cristina Palomares
Incorporation of Models in Automatic Dependency Detection
MSc Thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2018

Raatikainen, Mikko; Tiihonen, Juha; Männistö, Tomi
Software product lines and variability modeling: A tertiary study
Journal of Systems and Software Volume 149, 149 , pp. 485-510, 2019

Schoerghuber, Alexander; Kappel, Gertrude; Maalej, Walid; Stanik, Christoph
Classification of requirements in the tender process
MSc Master Thesis, Technical University of Vienna, 2019

A. Bouraffa, W. Maalej, S. Schupp
Improving The Quality of Requirement Specifications Using Automatic Ambiguity Detection Tools
Thesis, Hamburg University of Technology, 2019

Tim Pietz, Walid Maalej
Eine App für das gruppengetriebene Glossar-Management
BSc Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2019

Meik Dachs, Walid Maalej
Web-basierte Glossar-Anwendung für Softwareentwicklungsprojekte
BSc Thesis, University of Hamburg, 2019

A. Falkner, C. Palomares, X. Franch, G. Schenner, P. Aznar, A. Schoerghuber
Identifying Requirements in Requests for Proposal
25th Int. Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ’19), 2019.

Q. Motger, R. Borrull, C. Palomares, J. Marco
OpenReq-DD: A Requirements Dependency Detection Tool
2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE’19), 2019.

Stanik, Christoph; Haering, Marlo; Maalej, Walid
Classifying Multilingual User Feedback using Traditional Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Workshop AIRE @ RE’19, 2019

Stanik, Christoph; Maalej, Walid
Requirements Intelligence with OpenReq Analytics
Tools and Demos, Poster @ RE’19, 2019

Lüders, Clara Marie; Raatikainen, Mikko; Motger, Joaquim, Maalej, Walid
OpenReq Issue Link Map: A Tool to Visualize Issue Links in Jira
Tools and Demos, Poster @ RE’19, 2019

Tiihonen, Juha; Raatikainen, Mikko; Myllyaho, Lalli; Lüders, Clara Marie; Männistö, Tomi
Coping with Inconsistent Models of Requirements
Workshop on Configuration 2019. Vol. 2467 CEUR-WS.org, 2019

Dolors Costal, Xavier Franch, Lidia López, Cristina Palomares, Carme Quer
On the Use of Requirement Patterns to Analyse Request for Proposal Documents
In Proceedings 38th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER’19): 549-557

R. Samer, M. Stettinger, M. Atas, A. Felfernig, G. Ruhe, and G. Deshpande
New Approaches to the Identification of Dependencies between Requirements
IEEE International Conference on Tools with [1] Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Portland, USA, to appear, 2019.

R. Samer, A. Felfernig, and M. Stettinger
Towards Issue Recommendation for Open Source Communities
IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2019.

M. Atas, T. N. T.  Tran, A. Felfernig, S. Polat Erdeniz, R. Samer, and M. Stettinger
Towards Similarity-Aware Constraint-Based Recommendation
International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, pp. 287-299, Graz, Austria, 2019

S. Polat Erdeniz, A. Felfernig, and M. Atas
Learned Constraint Ordering for Consistency Based Direct Diagnosis
International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, pp. 347-359, Graz, Austria, 2019

T. N. T. Tran, M. Atas, V. M. Le, R. Samer,  and M. Stettinger
Towards Social Choice-based Explanations in Group Recommender Systems
Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), pp. 13-21, Larnaca, Cyprus, 2019

M. Atas, R. Samer, A. Felfernig, S. Polat erdeniz, and M. Stettinger
Socially-Aware Diagnosis for Constraint-Based Recommendation
Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), pp. 121-129, Larnaca, Cyprus, 2019

T. N. T. Tran, A. Felfernig, V. M. Le, M. Atas, M. Stettinger, and R. Samer
User Interfaces for Counteracting Decision Manipulation in Group Recommender Systems
Adjunct Publication of the 27th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP), pp. 93-98, Larnaca, Cyprus, 2019

S. Polat-Erdeniz, A. Felfernig, R. Samer, and M. Atas
Matrix Factorization based Heuristics for Constraint-based Recommenders
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), Limassol, Cyprus, 2019

M. Atas, T. Tran, A. Felfernig, and R. Samer
Socially-aware Recommendation for Over-Constrained Problems
31st International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, pp. 267-278, Montreal, Canada, 2018

M. Atas, S. Reiterer, A. Felfernig, and T. Tran.
Polarization Effects in Group Decisions
ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization, to appear, Singapore, 2018.

M. Atas, A. Felfernig, M. Stettinger, and TNT. Tran.
Beyond Item Recommendation: Using Recommendations to Stimulate Information Exchange in Group Decisions
9th International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo 2017), Oxford, UK, pp. 368-377, 2017

A. Felfernig, M. Atas, TNT. Tran, M. Stettinger, S. Polat-Erdeniz, and G. Leitner
An Analysis of Group Recommendation Heuristics for High- and Low-Involvement Items
30th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE 2017, Arras, France, pp. 335-344, 2017.

M. Uta, A. Felfernig, G. Schenner, and J. Spöcklberger
Consistency-based Merging of Variability Models
Workshop on Configuration, Graz, Austria, 2018.

A. Felfernig, M. Stettinger, and R. Samer
Decision Biases in Preference Acquisition
Workshop on Configuration, Graz, Austria, 2018

R. Samer, M. Atas, A. Felfernig, M. Stettinger, A. Falkner, and G. Schenner
Group Decision Support for Requirements Management Processes
Workshop on Configuration, pp. 19-24, Graz, Austria, 2018

M. Atas, T. Tran, R. Samer, A. Felfernig, and M. Stettinger
Liquid Democracy in Group-based Configuration
Workshop on Configuration, pp. 93-98, Graz, Austria, 2018.

Muesluem Atas
Group Decision Technologies for Complex Products and Services
PhD Thesis

Trang Thi Ngoc Tran
Recommendation and Decision Support Techniques for Groups
PhD Thesis

Joaquim Motger, Cristina Palomares Bonache
Automated Similarity Detection: Identifying Duplicated Requirements
MSc Thesis, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, 2020

A. Felfernig, M. Stettinger, C. Stanik, A. Falkner
Recommendation and Decision Technologies for Community-driven Requirements Engineering
Journal: Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, Submission: Jan. 2020

Cristian Vidal Silva, Müslüm Atas, Alexander Felfernig, David Benavides, Jose Galindo, Trang Trang, and Martin Stettinger
ParallelQX: A Parallelized Version of Junkers QuickXPlain Algorithm
Submitted to International Joint Conference on AI, 2020

Trang Tran and Alexander Felfernig
Humanized Recommender Systems – State of the Art and Research Issues
Submitted to ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 2020

Christoph Stanik, Walid Maalej
Requirements Intelligence: On the Analysis of User Feedback
PhD Thesis, Submitted Jan 2020

Daniel Martens, Walid Maalej
Improving the Quality of User Feedback for Continuous Software Evolution
hD Thesis, Submitted Jan 2020