Prof. Dr. Marcela Ruiz
Prof. Dr. Marcela Ruiz
ZHAW
School of Engineering
Forschungsschwerpunkt Software Engineering
Obere Kirchgasse 2 / Steinberggasse 12/14
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Focus
Development of Low-Code No-Code Tools for Software Development
Network
Membership of networks
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
- AI-SQUARE: Integrated Decision-Support Platform for Software Staging in DevOps / Project leader / Project ongoing
- Smart Hospital – Integrated Framework, Tools & Solutions (SHIFT) / Project leader / Project ongoing
- Machine Learning for Software User Interface Testing / Project leader / Project completed
- Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms / Team member / Project completed
- COSMOS – DevOps for Complex Cyber-physical Systems of Systems / Team member / Project completed
- Can virtual reality systems help us to design software as we talk? / Project leader / Project completed
- Interscriber: Turning Dialogues into Actionable Insights / Project leader / Project completed
Publications
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Mosquera, David; Ruiz, Marcela; Pastor, Oscar; Spielberger, Jürgen,
2024.
Understanding the landscape of software modelling assistants for MDSE tools : a systematic mapping.
Information and Software Technology.
173(107492).
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107492
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Ruiz, Marcela; Hu, Jin Yang; Dalpiaz, Fabiano,
2023.
Why don’t we trace? : a study on the barriers to software traceability in practice.
Requirements Engineering.
28(4), pp. 619-637.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-023-00408-9
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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
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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
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Mosquera Tobón, Jose David; Ruiz, Marcela; Pastor, Oscar; Spielberger, Jürgen,
2023.
In:
Ferrari, Alessio; Penzenstadler, Birgit, eds.,
Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality : REFSQ 2023.
29th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ), Barcelona, Spain, 17-20th April 2023.
Cham:
Springer.
pp. 140-158.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 13975.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29786-1_10
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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
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Mosquera, David; Ruiz, Marcela; Pastor, Oscar; Spielberger, Jürgen; Fievet, Lucas,
2022.
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
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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
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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
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Mosquera, David; Martakos, Anastassios; Ruiz, Marcela,
2022.
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
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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
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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/
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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
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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
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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
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Moretti, Gioele; Ruiz, Marcela; Spielberger, Jürgen,
2020.
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
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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
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Panichella, Sebastiano; Ruiz, Marcela,
2020.
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