Latest Publications on Industry and Research
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Onward! 2008 call for papers
Is DNA recombination your inspiration for a new programming language? Or do you simply think it is time to improve generics in Java? Do you think that we need new paradigms for bringing programming to the masses in Second Life and on Wikipedia? That we need new and significantly more robust systems than before that…
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Is open source bad for your career?
ComputerWorld Canada recently published an article about the closing keynote on open source that I had given at the Free Software & Open Source Symposium in Toronto last year. The basic tenet of the article is that I had claimed that software developers will fall on hard times due to open source. This is obviously…
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![Towards end-user programming with wikis [WEUSE 2008]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/10665-berlin-viktoria-luise-platz-summer-people-300x150.jpg)
Towards end-user programming with wikis [WEUSE 2008]
Abstract: When business software fails to provide the desired functionality, users typically turn to spreadsheets to perform simple but general computational tasks. However, spreadsheets enforce a view of the world that consists mostly of tables and numbers rather than the domain concepts users have in mind. We are using wikis as a platform for empowering…
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How to benefit from open source
Title: How to Benefit from Open Source Presenter: Dirk Riehle Institution: SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC Abstract: Open source is changing the game of how software is built and how money is made. This talk analyzes the economics of open source software from three main perspectives: The system integrator perspective, the start-up firm perspective, and…
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Wiki Creole grammar, schema, transformations made available
For wiki research purposes as well as the Wiki Creole community‘s convenience, we are making our EBNF grammar, the XML schema definition, and the to/from XML transformations available. You can use these specifications to create your own wiki parsers (using parser generators) as well as use standard technology (DOM, XSLT) to work with wiki pages…
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![An XML interchange format for Wiki Creole 1.0 [Technical Report]](https://dirkriehle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/10667-hong-kong-3-300x150.png)
An XML interchange format for Wiki Creole 1.0 [Technical Report]
Abstract: Wikis have become an important application on the web and in the enterprise, yet there are no interoperability standards between different wiki engines. We present the first complete XML representation format of Wiki Creole 1.0. Wiki Creole is a community standard for wiki markup, the language used to write wiki pages. This report presents…