Address: Technische Universität München Institut für Informatik I1 85748 Garching b. München Germany E-Mail: firstname.lastname (at) cdtm.de Use Walid instead of firstname and Maalej instead of lastname Office: 01.07.057 Tel: +49 89 289 18230 consultation hours by appointments

Walid Maalej studied computer science at the Technische  Universität München (TUM), and the National University of Singapore (NUS). He also has a degree in Technology Management from the Center for Digital Technology and Management, an institution of the Bavarian Elite Network.
Walid published several papers and served as program or organization committee of national and international conferences in the fields Software Engineering, Product Development and Project Management and Knowledge Engineering. Walid gained practical experience in these fields  during his work for several companies including mediawave internet solutions, Siemens (Germany and Singapore), TCW management consulting, Deutsche Telecom and Rohde & Schwarz.

Research Interest

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

• 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

• RE'10: 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Sydney Australia (Industry Program Chair)
• RSSE 2010: Second International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering, Cape Town, South Africa (Program Committee Member)
• SSE'10: 3rd. International Workshop on Social Software Engineering, Padarborn, Germany (Co-Organizer)
• KNOWING@ICGSE 2010: KNOWledge engINeering in Global software development (Program Committee Member)
• 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

• TeamWeaver, project lead, developer
  
• Fraise, project lead, architect
  
• TEAM EU Project, TUM representative, technical partner
  
• Intergartion der Entwicklungsprozesse und Entwicklungstools, consultant
  
• SweS: Semantic Web Search, developer

Talks

Publications

• Walid Maalej and Alexander Sahm, Assisting Engineers in Switching Artifacts by using Task Semantic and Interaction History, RSSE 2010, ACM [Accepted]
• Alexander Felfernig, Walid Maalej, Monika Schubert and Monika Mandl, Recommendation and Decision Technologies For Requirements Engineering, RSSE 2010, ACM [Accepted]
• Walid Maalej and Hans-Jörg Happel, Can Development Work Describe Itselt? In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Conference on Mining Software Repositories, IEEE CS, 2010. [Accepted]
• 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 menagement 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

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

• 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)
  

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.

• Ontology-based and Eclipse-integrated Search for Error Experience in Distributed Software Teams (Foued Jaibi)
• Design and Implemetation of a Stress Inferencing 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 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)
  
• Formalisierung und Optimierung eines agilen Entwicklungsprozesses bei einem verteilten mittelständigen Softwareunternehmen (Georg Büxel)