Dr. Walid Maalej

 

 

Dr. Walid Maalej

Dipl. Inf. Univ.

Address: 
Technische Universität München
Institut für Informatik I1
85748 Garching b. München
Germany

E-Mail: 
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Office: 01.07.057
Tel: +49 89 289 18230 
Consultation hours by appointments

 

Walid is nominated by the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring foundation as the Junior Researcher in computer science for 2011-2013.

Walid Maalej studied computer science at the Technische Universität München (TUM), and the National University of Singapore. He holds a Ph.D. degree (on Intention-Based Integration of Software Engineering Tools) and a Master degree in Computer Science from the TUM. He also received a degree in Technology Management from the Center for Digital Technology and Management, an institution of the Bavarian Elite Network.

Walid published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers in renowned venues. He served as organizer or program committee member of national and international conferences in the fields Software Engineering, Requirements Engineering, Project Management and Knowledge Management.

Walid served as consultant and as developer for several companies including mediawave, Siemens (Germany and Singapore), Deutsche Telecom, TCW management consulting, and Rohde & Schwarz. He is a.o. the initiator of the open source platform TeamWeaver and the scientific coordinator of the EU-Funded project FastFix.

Research Interest

General Fields of Expertise:

• (Distributed) Software Engineering
• Requirements Engineering
• Knowledge Management, Ontologies
• Agile Project and Process Management (Lean development)
• Semantic Web (Jena, RDF/OWL)
• Object Oriented Programming (UML, Java, Eclipse, OSGi)

Current Research Topics:

• Human factors in engineering
• Context-aware Infrastructures for knowledge workers
• Social Software Engineering
• Lightweight knowledge sharing in distributed development
• Integration of development tools
• Managing knowledge of rapidly changing systems
• Use of ontologies in Software Engineering

Professional Activities

• SSE'11 International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, Szeged, Hungary, September 2011 (Chair)
• International Conference on Web Based Communities and Social Media 2011 , Rome, Italy July 2011 (Program Committee)
• European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, ESEC/FSE 2011, SZEGED Hungary, (New Ideas Track Program Committee)
• RE'11: 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Trento Italy, (Industry Track Program Committee)
• RE'10: 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Sydney Australia (Industry Program Chair)
• Open Design Spaces (ODS 2010),  Aarhus, Denmark, August 16 or 17, 2010 (Program Committe)
• RSSE 2010: Second International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering, Cape Town, South Africa (Program Committee)
• MaRK'10: Managing Requirements Knowledge, 3rd International Workshop, Sydney Australia
• SSE'10: 3rd. International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, Padarborn, Germany (Co-Organizer)
• KNOWING@ICGSE 2010: KNOWledge engINeering in Global software development (Program Committee)
• International Workshop on Research 2.0 and Softwarex Engineering, with TOOLS 2010, Málaga, Spain (Program Committee)
• 3PGCIC 2010, 5th. International Conference On P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing - Groupware and Collaborative Systems Track (Program Committee Member).
• Mark'09: Managing Requirements Knowledge, 2nd International workshop collocated with IEEE RE09 in Atlanta, USA (Co-Chair)
• IBM CASCON Workshop on Software Engineering 2.0 & Research 2.0 (Program Committee Member)
• OOPSLA Onward! 09, Orlando, Florida, USA (Publicity Chair)
• Software Engineering 2.0 and Research 2.0 at CASCON 2009, in Toronto, November 2009
• International Workshop on KNOWledge engINeering in Global software development, Collocated with ICGSE 09, Limerick,Ireland (Program Committee Member)
• European Workshop on Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Engineering SofTEAM'09, collocated with SE'09 in Kaiserslautern (Co-Chair)
• 3. Eclipse Munich DemoCamp (Organizer)
• Mark'08: Managing Requirements Knowledge, International workshop collocated with IEEE RE08 in Barcelona (Co-Chair)
• Eclipse Genymede Munich DemoCamp (Organizer)
• 3. Workshop: Vorgehensmodelle in der Praxis - Werkzeuge und Anwendung (Program Committee Member)
• Workshop "AKNOWLEDGE'08: Agile Knowledge Sharing for Distributed Software Teams" (Co-Chair)
• Workshop "INTEGRA'08: Integration von Prozessen und Werkzeugen im agilen Zeitalter" (Co-Chair)
• Software Engineering Konferenz 2008 (Organization Team)

Projects

Some recent projects:

• PUMBA, Program Understanding Munich Bremen Alliance
• FastFix EU Project, Scientific Coordinator
• TeamWeaver, Initiator, architect, developer
• Fraise, project lead, architect
• TEAM EU Project, TUM representative, workpackage leader
• Intergartion der Entwicklungsprozesse und Entwicklungstools, consultant
• SweS: Semantic Web Search, developer

Talks

You can find a selection of talks a I gave in slide share. For example:

• Can Development Work Describe Itself?
• Assisting Engineers in Switching Artifacts
• From Work To Word
• Intention-Based Integration of Software Engineering Tools
• Potential and challenges of recommendation systems in software engineering (Invited Talk at Graz Univeristy of technology)
• Context aware software engineering and maintenance, the FastFix approach (Invited talk at Future Network Summit 2011)
• Insider perspective on the revolution in Tunisia and Egypt 
• How Do Developers Blog? An Exploratory Study

View more presentations from maalejw.

Publications

Some recent peer-reviewed publications:

• Dennis Pagano and Walid Maalej, How Do Developers Blog? An Exploratory Study, in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference On Mining Software Repositories, ACM, 2011
• Walid Maalej, Intention-Based Integration of Software Engineering Tools, Verlag Dr. Hut, München, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86853-539-6
• Walid Maalej and Alexander Sahm, Assisting Engineers in Switching Artifacts by using Task Semantic and Interaction History, RSSE 2010, ACM
• Alexander Felfernig, Walid Maalej, Monika Schubert and Monika Mandl, Recommendation and Decision Technologies For Requirements Engineering, RSSE 2010, ACM
• Walid Maalej and Hans-Jörg Happel, Can Development Work Describe Itself? In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Conference on Mining Software Repositories, IEEE CS, 2010
• Walid Maalej, Task-First or Context-First? Tool Integration Revisited, In International Conference On Automated Software Engineering IEEE 2009

• Walid Maalej, Hans-Jörg Happel, Asarnusch Rashid: When Users Become Collaborators: Towards Continuous and Context-Aware User Input, In Proceedings of OOPSLA 2009 (Onward!), ACM 2009
• From Work to Words: How do Software Developers Describe Their Work (in Proceedings of the 6th IEEE Conference On Mining Software Repositories, IEEE CS, 2009)
• Walid Maalej and Anil Thurimella. Towards a Research Agenda for Recommendation Systems in Requirements Engineering, In Proceeding of the 2nd Int. Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge, IEEE 2009
• Application Of Ontologies in Collaborative Software Engineering, book chapter in Collaborative Software Engineering, Springer 2009
• A Lightweight Approach for Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Software Teams (in Proceedings of the 7th Conference of Practical Aspects on Knowledge Management, LNCS)
• Potentials and Challenges of Recommendation Systems for Software Development (in Proceedings of International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering (RSSE 2008), ACM)
• TEAM: Towards a Software Engineering Semantic Web ( in Proceedings of CHASE'08, ACM)
• Towards Effective Management of Software Engineering Knowledge Exploiting the Semantic Wiki Paradigm (in Proceedings of SE08, LNI)
• From Research to Practice: How do TXT e-solutions Plan to Deploy Innovations in Sharing Development Knowledge (in Workshop Proceedings of SE08, LNI)
• State of the art report: knowledge management in software engineering, Technical report
• State of the art report: contextualisation and personalisation in software engineering, Technical Report
• Domain independent generation and management of user- queries in semantic web environment, Jena User Conference, HP-Labs Bristol
• Cornelia Reinhart, Patrick Rohrmeier, Basar Polat, Walid Maalej: Mobile Operators and Their Role in the M2M Market - A SWOT Analysis, In Wireless Future Studies, no. 3, 2004: Lectures on Pervasive Communications - Trends & Developments that Shape our Wireless Future Mike Olson, Michael Alger (eds.) ISBN 3-00-015100-1
• Mascotmania: Mobile Game for FIFA Word Cup 2006, in Mobile Applications for the Soccer World Cup 2006, Trend Report 2003/2004, BoD?, Norderstedt, ISBN 3-937312-53-6
• Technologies for tracking and localization, in Mobile Applications for the Soccer World Cup 2006, Trend Report 2003/2004, BoD?, Norderstedt, ISBN 3-937312-53-6

Teaching and Supervising

Supervised Courses:

• Doktoranden Seminar / Doctoral Seminar
• Managing Product Development (CDTM Course)
• Seminar Wissensbasiertes Software Engineering
• Knowledge Management in Software Engineering

Supervised Research Assistants (at least 4 months):

• Amel Mahmuzić (Eureka, TeamWeaver, Maven & Eclipse)
• Alexander Sahm (User interface for intention aware infrastructures)
• Jinhui Zhu (Jena development, context representation)
• Niko Tsanakas (context observation in Eclipse)

Free Topics:

There are a plenty of available topics. If you are interested on one of my current research topics (see above), or if you have a thesis idea and want to be supervised by me, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Ongoing Topics:

• A Tool for Context-Aware Task Recommendation in Software Engineering (Vincenz Dölle)
• A Self-Managed Context-aware Task List for Supporting Software Engineering Work (Anna Mukha)
• Visualization of the HMI-Specification in Large Automotive Projects (Dong Li, in coorperation with BMW)
• A Framework for a Scalable Integration of SME Online-Shops (Walter Werner, in cooperation with CG Workwear)

Closed Topic:

• Design and Implementation of a Stress Inference Framework by Using Physiological Sensors and Machine Learning (Patrick Blitz MA in Cooperation with the CMU)
• Communicating Status in Distributed Teams by using Context and Semantic Technologies. (Aaron Ciaghi, Guided Research in cooperation with University of Trento)
• Ontology-based and Eclipse-integrated Search for Error Experience in Distributed Software Teams (Foued Jaibi)
• Ontology-based and Eclipse-integrated Search for Reuse Experience in Distributed Software Teams (Anna Mukha)
• Assisting Software Engineers in Switching Contexts by using Intentions and Interaction History (Alexander Sahm)
• Using Ontologies to Detect How Software Developers Solve Problems in Eclipse (Tobias Röhm)
• An Empirical Study on the Integration of Software Development Information by Agile Teams (Wei Fang)
• Integrating Development and Workflow Environments by using Ontologies and Metadata, A case study in an SAP Environment at Avarto (Partick Blitz)
• Learning Developers Tasks by Using Bayes Approach (Feng Yu)
• Ontology-Based Description and Identification of Working-Context in Software Engineering (Antonis Gyftakis)
• Fraise: A Framework for Application-independent, Intension-based Software Engineering (Damir Ismailovic)
• Ontology - Based Framework for Sharing Design Pattern Knowledge (Catinca Golesteanu)
• Entwurf und prototypische Implementierung eines Konzeptes für Release Management bei Rohde & Schwarz (Christine Niedermeier, in cooperation with Rohde und Schwarz)
• Formalisierung und Optimierung eines agilen Entwicklungsprozesses bei einem verteilten mittelständigen Softwareunternehmen (Georg Büxel, in coorperation with Hypovereinsbank)

Places I have visited

39 states (17%)