Dipl.-Inf. Univ. Walid Maalej

Short CV

General Fields of Expertise:

• (Distributed) Software Engineering
• Requirements Engineering
• Knowledge Management
• Project and Process Management
• Soft Skills
• Agile Project Management, lean product development

Current Research Interests:

• Context-aware working infrastructures
• Lightweight knowledge sharing in distributed development
• Human factors in system engineering
• Integration of development processes and tools
• Managing the knowledge of rapidly changing systems and processes
• Use of ontologies in Software Engineering
• Social Software Engineering

Professional Activities

• "SofTEAM'09: Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing in Software Engineering", European Workshop 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)

Publications

• A Lightweight Approach for Knowledge Sharing in Distributed Software Teams (in Proceedings of the 7th Conference of Practical Aspects on Knowledge Management to appear)
• Potentials and Challenges of Recommendation Systems for Software Development (in Proceedings of International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering (RSSE 2008))
• TEAM: Towards a Software Engineering Semantic Web ( in Proceedings of CHASE Workshop at ICSE, 2008)
• Towards Effective Management of Software Engineering Knowledge Exploiting the Semantic Wiki Paradigm (in Proceedings of SE08)
• From Research to Practice: How do TXT e-solutions Plan to Deploy Innovations in Sharing Development Knowledge (in Workshop Proceedings of SE08 )
• State of the art report: knowledge management in software engineering
• State of the art report: contextualisation and personalisation in software engineering
• Domain independent generation and menagement of user- queries in semantic web environment
• 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^? GmbH^?, 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^? GmbH^?, Norderstedt, ISBN 3-937312-53-6

Projects

• TeamWeaver
• Fraise
• TEAM EU Project
• Intergartion der Entwicklungsprozesse und Entwicklungstools
• SweS: Semantic Web Search

Supervised Courses

• Managing Product Developement (CDTM Course)
• Seminar Wissensbasiertes Software Engineering
• Knowledge Management in Sotware Engineering

Supervised Students (more than 4 months)

Student Research Assistants

• Amel Mahmuzić (Eureka)
• 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 free topics related to my research areas (see above). If you are interested on one of my current research topics; if you are planing to do your Bachelor, Master or Diplome thesis in one of the following fields: Knowledge Management, Software Engineering, Agile Processes and Methodologies and Semantic Web please feel free to contact me.

Ongoing Topics

• Ontology-based and Eclipse-integrated Search for Reuse Experience in Distributed Software Teams (Anna Mukha)
• Integrating Development and Workflow Environments by using Ontologies and Metadata, A case study in an SAP Environment at Avarto (Partick Blitz)

Closed Topics

• 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)
• Formalisierung und Optimierung eines agilen Entwicklungsprozesses bei einem verteilten mittelständigen Softwareunternehmen (Georg Büxel)