Prof. Dr. Marcela Ruiz

ZHAW School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Software Engineering
Obere Kirchgasse 2 / Steinberggasse 12/14
8400 Winterthur

+41 (0) 58 934 67 52
marcela.ruiz@zhaw.ch

Work at ZHAW

Focus

Development of Low-Code No-Code Tools for Software Development

Network

Social media

Media presence

Interview by ZHAW Digital on DIZH Fellowship, Thursday, 29 April 2021: When a discussion leads to developing a software [Link to interview: www.zhaw.ch/en/about-us/news/news-releases/news-detail/event-news/wenn-durchs-sprechen-software-entsteht/]

Projects

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Díaz, Eduardo; Panach, José Ignacio; Rueda, Silvia; Ruiz, Marcela; Pastor, Oscar,

2020.

Are requirements elicitation sessions influenced by participants' gender? : an empirical experiment.

Science of Computer Programming.

204(102595).

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scico.2020.102595

Book parts, peer-reviewed

Pastor, Oscar; Noel, Rene; Panach, Ignacio; Ruiz, Marcela,

2022.

The LiteStrat modelling method : towards the alignment of strategy and code

.

In:

Karagiannis, Dimitris; Moonkun, Lee; Hinkelmann, Knut; Utz, Wilfrid, eds.,

Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling : Concepts, Methods and ADOxx Tools.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 141-159.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93547-4_7

Conference contributions, peer-reviewed

Noel, Rene; Panach, Jose Ignacio; Ruiz, Marcela; Pastor, Oscar,

2022.

Stra2Bis : a model-driven method for aligning business strategy and business processes [paper].

In:

Ralyté, Jolita; Chakravarthy, Sharma; Mohania, Mukesh; Jeusfeld, Manfred A.; Karlapalem, Kamalakar, eds.,

Conceptual Modeling.

41st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2022), Hyderabad, India, 17-20 October 2022.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 255-270.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 13607.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17995-2_18
Mosquera, David; Ruiz, Marcela; Pastor, Oscar; Spielberger, Jürgen; Fievet, Lucas,

2022.

OntoTrace : a tool for supporting trace generation in software development by using ontology-based automatic reasoning [paper].

In:

De Weerdt, Jochen; Polyvyanyy, Artem, eds.,

Intelligent Information Systems.

34th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE '22), Leuven, Belgium, 6-10 June 2022.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 73-81.

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ; 452.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07481-3_9
Wahler, Michael; Conte, Enrico; Frick, Martin; Mosquera, David; Ruiz, Marcela,

2022.

Rapid software prototyping from business artifacts [paper].

In:

Bera, Palash; Dalpiaz, Fabiano; Wautelet, Yves, eds.,

Short Paper Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE 2022).

First International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE 2022), co-located with the 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2022) Leuven, Belgium, 6. June 2022.

Aachen:

RWTH Aachen University.

pp. 9-14.

CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25019
Mosquera, David; Ruiz, Marcela; Pastor, Oscar; Spielberger, Jürgen,

2022.

Assisted-modeling requirements for model-driven development tools [paper].

In:

Guizzardi, Renata; Ralyté, Jolita; Franch, Xavier, eds.,

Research Challenges in Information Science.

16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), Barcelona, Spain, 17-20 May 2022.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 458-474.

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ; 446.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05760-1_27
Mosquera, David; Martakos, Anastassios; Ruiz, Marcela,

2022.

Experiences from developing a web crawler using a model-driven development tool : emerging opportunities [paper].

In:

Augusto, Adriano; Gill, Asif; Bork, Dominik; Nurcan, Selmin; Reinhartz-Berger, Iris; Schmidt, Rainer, eds.,

Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling.

27th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development (EMMSAD), Leuven, Belgium, 6-7 June 2022.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 336-343.

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ; 450.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07475-2_23
Noel, Rene; Ruiz, Marcela; Panach, Ignacio; Pastor, Oscar,

2021.

Beyond conventional model-driven development : from strategy to code [paper].

In:

Ruiz, Marcela; Li, Tong; Pant, Vik, eds.,

14th International iStar Workshop 2021.

40th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2021), online, 18-21 October 2021.

CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

pp. 49-55.

CEUR Workshop Proceedings ; 2983.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24373
Noel, Rene; Panach, Ignacio; Ruiz, Marcela; Pastor, Oscar,

2021.

The LiteStrat method : towards strategic model-driven development [paper].

In:

Insfran, Emilio; González, Fernando; Abrahão, Silvia; Fernández, Marta; Barry, Chris; Lang, Michael; Linger, Henry; Schneider, Christoph, eds.,

ISD2021 Proceedings.

29th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD), Valencia, Spain, 8-10 September 2021.

Valencia:

Universitat Politècnica de València.

Available from: https://aisel.aisnet.org/isd2014/proceedings2021/managingdevops/11/
Franch, Xavier; Ruiz, Marcela,

2021.

Goal-oriented models for teaching and understanding data structures [paper].

In:

Ghose, Aditya; Horkoff, Jennifer; Silva Souza, Vítor E.; Parsons, Jeffrey; Evermann, Joerg, eds.,

Conceptual Modeling.

40th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2021), online, 18-21 October 2021.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 227-241.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 13011.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89022-3_19
Ruiz, Marcela; Ralyté, Jolita; Franch, Xavier,

2020.

The use of iStar in Situational Method Engineering : an ongoing study [paper].

In:

Guizzardi, Renata; Mussbacher, Gunter; Ruiz, Marcela, eds.,

Thirteenth International iStar Workshop.

28th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2020), Zurich, Switzerland, 31 August - 4 September 2020.

CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

pp. 37-42.

CEUR Workshop Proceedings ; 2641.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24495
Ruiz, Marcela; Hasselmann, Björn,

2020.

Can we design software as we talk? : a research idea [paper].

In:

Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling.

BPMDS 2020: Business Process Modeling, Development and Support / EMMSAD 2020 : International Conference on Evaluation and Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, virtual, 8-9 June 2020.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 327-334.

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ; 387.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49418-6_22
Moretti, Gioele; Ruiz, Marcela; Spielberger, Jürgen,

2020.

Improving performance and scalability of model-driven generated web applications : an experience report [paper].

In:

Research Challenges in Information Science.

RCIS 2020 : 14th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, Limassol (Cyprus), 23-25 September 2020.

Cham:

Springer.

pp. 285-301.

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ; 385.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50316-1_17

Other publications

Ruiz, Marcela,

2022.

Speeding up digital transformation by automating software development.

Mitteilungen : Mitteilungen der Alumni ZHAW, Engineering & Architecture.

(72), pp. 52-57.

Available from: https://www.alumni-zhaw.ch/data/documents/2022/03/22/4353-6239b13e39106.pdf
Panichella, Sebastiano; Ruiz, Marcela,

2020.

Requirements-collector : automating requirements specification from elicitation sessions and user feedback [paper].

In:

2020 IEEE 28th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE).

28th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2020), Zurich, Switzerland, 31 August - 4 September 2020.

IEEE.

pp. 404-407.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/RE48521.2020.00057

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