Software Research and the Industry

As you may seen in an earlier blog post, I’m starting in a new position as a professor of software engineering focussing on open source software at the University of Erlangen. In this post, I’m laying out my abbreviated research agenda as of September 2009.
The overarching goal of my group’s research is to comprehensively define [...]

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After 12 years of working in the high-tech industry, I’m changing gears. I left my prior industry job and am starting today, September 1st, as the “professor for open source software” in the computer science department of the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. This is a free (not tied to a chair) [...]

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For your information, the fourth workshop on wikis for (in) software engineering. I’m on the program committee.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Fourth Workshop on “Wikis for Software Engineering”, May 16, 2009, at ICSE 2009, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24, 2009
Submissions are due on January 26 (abstracts), February 2 (papers), 2009

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WikiSym 2009 Call for Papers
The International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2009/
October 25-27, 2009, in Orlando, Florida, USA
In-cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN and ACM SIGWEB, co-located with ACM OOPSLA 2009, peer-reviewed and archived in the ACM Digital Library
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The International Symposium on Wikis (WikiSym) is the premier conference dedicated to wikis and related open collaboration systems and [...]

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For your information, a workshop on Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Teams (SofTEAM ‘09)
CALL FOR PAPERS
European Workshop on “Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Development Teams (SofTEAM’09)”
www1.in.tum.de/softeam09

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Wikipedia is the free online encyclopedia that has taken the Internet by storm. It is written and administered solely by volunteers. How exactly did this come about and how does it work? Can it keep working? And maybe more importantly, can you transfer its practices to the workplace to achieve similar levels of dedication and [...]

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Author: Dirk Riehle, SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC
Reference: Steven Fraser (editor). “Escaped from the Lab: Innovation Practices in Large Organizations.” In Companion of the 2008 Conference on Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA ’08). ACM Press, 2008.
Available as a PDF file; my part follows as HTML below.
Position statement for the OOPSLA 2008 Panel [...]

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Title: End-User Programming with Application Wikis: A Panel with Ludovic Dubost, Stewart Nickolas, and Peter Thoeny
Author: Dirk Riehle
Abstract: Wikis empower users to collaborate with each other using prose. Users imprint data structures and processes onto wiki pages using social and technical conventions. Application wikis enhance wiki engines with lightweight programming features that aid in making [...]

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For your information, a workshop on interdisciplinary research on wiki communities.
CALL FOR PAPERS
First Workshop on “Interdisciplinary Research on Wiki Communities”, on September 8, 2008, at WikiSym 2008, Porto, Portugal, September 8-10, 2008
Introduction

The array of approaches to studying wikis is a source of wealth but also a possible source of confusion: What are appropriate methodologies for [...]

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Authors: Martin Junghans, Dirk Riehle, Rama Gurram, Matthias Kaiser, Mário Lopes, Umit Yalcinalp
Abstract: Today’s wiki engines are not interoperable. The rendering engine is tied to the processing tools which are tied to the wiki editors. This is an unfortunate consequence of the lack of rigorously specified standards. This paper discusses an EBNF-based grammar for Wiki [...]

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