Author: Dirk Riehle

Abstract: With the increasing prominence of open collaboration as found in free/libre/open source software projects and other joint production communities, potential participants need to acquire skills. How these skills are learned has received little research attention. This article presents a larg...

Abstract: Traceability is an important quality aspect in modern software development. It facilitates the documentation of decisions and helps identifying conflicts regarding the conformity of one artifact to another. We propose a new approach to requirements engineering that utilizes qualitative res...

Die FAU vergibt den Titel "Honorarprofessor/in" an ausgewählte Individuen, welche über einen längeren Zeitraum (mind. vier Jahre) regelmäßig zwei SWS pro Jahr oder mehr Lehre erbracht haben und sich auch darüber hinaus als Freund und Unterstützer der FAU erwiesen haben. Grundlage der Titelvergabe is...

Abstract: Qualitative data analysis is widely accepted as valid approach for inductively developing theories. The in-depth analysis of individual experience often results in novel findings, potentially explaining less common phenomena. However, to achieve valuable results, the discovery must be comp...

Abstract: Most wikis store their pages (articles) as text blobs in an SQL database. A formal parser for MediaWiki’s markup format which drives Wikipedia and many other wiki instances has been developed by the SWEBLE project. This parser produces a structured document as Wiki Object Model (WOM) which...

Current and graduating FAU students: If you would like our help finding a job, please declare your interests in this form and then send email to: Fariba Bensing, cc: Prof. Riehle, so that we can follow-up. Uns erreichen häufig Anfragen zu Studierendenjobs in der Wirtschaft. Wir vermitteln die...

This is not necessarily within our usual sphere of influence, but then we do have students leaving the country and migrating to the United States. Thus you might want to know about this fun call for participation in a crowdsourced project: The Next MacGyver. Specifically, the project is calling on e...

Our research group is involved with several Asian universities (mostly in Hong Kong and Malaysia). We are glad to report to have received additional funding from BayFOR and FAU of about EUR 10.000 to continue our engagement with Malaysian universities. We intend to use the funds to drive forward our...

Guidewire is a Silicon-Valley-based software company developing insurance software solutions. We are good friends with both engineering and product managers at the company. Guidewire is looking to grow; students can find job descriptions on this site: https://careers.guidewire.com/. For the right p...

Netdosis was a successful FAU startup that we helped initiate. Its CEO writes to us: Netdosis was a software startup that evolved out of the 2010 AMOS Project. Netdosis developed software and a database for drug dosage information for children, a severely underserved market. In 2013 we successf...