Publications: Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publications

I wrote most of my peer-reviewed scientific publications during my time at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (Fraunhofer IESE). They include international journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. My work focused primarily on software process improvement, software quality, and knowledge management.

Since working in industry, my scientific publications have mainly related to the areas of requirements management and software product lines.

A. Birk, “Requirements tool practices that drive business agility,” in Software Business, S. Hyrynsalmi, J. Münch, K. Smolander, and J. Melegati, Eds., in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 500. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024, pp. 51–57. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53227-6_4.

A. Wohlgemuth, A. Herrmann, and A. Birk, “Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Frameworks: REFraming Elicitation (REFrame 2/2023),” Hannover, Germany, Sept. 04, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://reframe-community.org/ws2-2023/

A. Wohlgemuth, A. Herrmann, and A. Birk, Eds., “Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Frameworks: REFraming Elicitation (REFrame 2/2023), Workshop Proceedings,” in 2023 IEEE 31st International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, 2023, pp. 343–364. [Online]. Available: https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/REW57809.2023.00064

A. Wohlgemuth, A. Herrmann, and A. Birk, “Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Frameworks: REFraming Elicitation (REFrame 2/2023),” in 2023 IEEE 31st International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, Sept. 2023, pp. 343–344. doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/REW57809.2023.00064.

A. Birk, “Requirements-Management für IT- und Software-Organisationen,” in Michael Lang, Stefan Scherber, Eds., Perfekte Softwareentwicklung: Prozesse, Technologien und Methoden für erfolgreiche Softwareprojekte, Düsseldorf: Symposion Publishing, 2013, pp. 111–138.

A. Birk, K. Schmid, and M. Völter, “Produktlinien im Kontext 2011: Technologie, Prozesse, Business und Organisation (PIK 2011),” presented at the Workshop im Rahmen der Konferenz “Software Engineering 2011” (SE 2011), Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs “Softwaretechnik,” Karlsruhe, Germany, Feb. 22, 2011. [Online]. Available: http://2011.pik-konf.de

A. Birk, K. Schmid, and M. Völter, “Produktlinien im Kontext 2010: Technologie, Prozesse, Business und Organisation (PIK 2010),” presented at the Workshop im Rahmen der Konferenz “Software Engineering 2010” (SE 2010), Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs “Softwaretechnik,” Paderborn, Germany, Feb. 23, 2010. [Online]. Available: http://2010.pik-konf.de

A. Birk, L. Fiege, K. Schmid, and R. Tavakoli, “Produktlinien im Kontext 2009: Technologie, Prozesse, Business und Organisation (PIK 2009),” presented at the Workshop im Rahmen der Konferenz “Software & Systems Engineering Essentials 2009” (SEE 2009), Berlin, May 25, 2009. [Online]. Available: http://2009.pik-konf.de

A. Birk, “Testmanagement unter dem Einfluss der Software-Industrialisierung,” in Georg Herzwurm, Martin Mikusz, Eds., Industrialisierung des Software-Managements: Fachtagung des GI-Fachausschusses “Mangement der Anwendungsentwicklung und -wartung” im Fachbereich Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI-MAW), 12.-14. November 2008, Stuttgart, Germany, Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), in Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), vol. 139. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI), Nov. 2008, pp. 57–72.

A. Birk, L. Fiege, and K. Schmid, “Produktlinien im Kontext 2008: Technologie, Prozesse, Business und Organisation (PIK 2008),” presented at the Workshop im Rahmen der Konferenz “Software Engineering 2008” (SE 2008), Fachtagung des GI-Fachbereichs “Softwaretechnik,” Munich, Feb. 18, 2008. [Online]. Available: http://2008.pik-konf.de/

D. Beuche et al., “Using Requirements Management Tools in Software Product Line Engineering: The State of the Practice,” in Software Product Line Conference, International, Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, Sept. 2007, pp. 84–96. doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/SPLINE.2007.15.

A. Birk and G. Heller, “Challenges for requirements engineering and management in software product line development,” in Pete Sawyer, Barbara Paech, Patrick Heymans ,Eds., Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, Proceedings of the 13th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2007, Trondheim, Norway, June 11-12, 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 4542. Berlin: Springer, June 2007, pp. 300–305. [Online]. Available: http://www.refsq.org/2007/

K. Schneider, A. Birk, S. Lindstaedt, and T. Dingsøyr, “International Workshop on Learning Software Organisations and Requirements Engineering 2006 (LSO+RE 2006),” presented at the International Workshop on Learning Software Organisations and Requirements Engineering 2006 (LSO+RE 2006), Hannover, Germany, Mar. 27, 2006.

A. Birk and T. Dingsøyr, “7th International Workshop on Learning Software Organziations (LSO 2005),” presented at the Workshop at the 3rd Conference on Professional Knowledge Management (WM2005), Kaiserslautern, Germany, Apr. 11, 2005.

H. Ljungström and A. Birk, “Architekturen verbinden! – Horizontale und vertikale Integration von IT-Systemen und Services in der Praxis,” presented at the Workshop at INFORMATIK 2004, Ulm, Germany, Sept. 2004.

T. von der Maßen et al., “Key challenges in industrial product line engineering,” in H. Dieter Rombach, Stefan Eicker, Klaus Pohl, Heimo H. Adelsberger, Volker Wulf, Helmut Krcmar, Jan M. Pawlowski (Eds.): Multikonferenz Wirtschaftsinformatik (MKWI): Universität Duisburg-Essen, 9.-11. März 2004, Band 1:  E-Learning: Modelle, Instrumente und Erfahrungen; Software-Produktlinien; Communities in E-Business, Berlin: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Aka, 2004, pp. 260–272.

A. Birk, “Patterns für effektive Anforderungsstrukturierung in IT-Projekten,” in Proceedings of the 3rd Requirements Engineering Conference (REConf 2004), Munich: HOOD Group, 2004.

A. Birk, G. Heller, I. John, T. von der Maßen, K. Müller, and K. Schmid, “Product line engineering: The state of the practice,” IEEE Software, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 52–60, Nov. 2003.

A. Birk, K. Kohler, and F. Leidermann, “Der Weg zu einer stärkeren Verzahnung von Usability Engineering und Software Engineering,” presented at the Practice Session at the 1st GC-UPA Workshop of the German Chapter of the Usability Professionals Association, Stuttgart, Germany, Sept. 2003.

K. Kohler, F. Leidermann, and A. Birk, “Der Weg zu einer stärkeren Verzahnung von Usability Engineering und Software Engineering,” in Matthias Peissner and Kerstin Röse, editors, Usability Professionals 2003, Proceedings of the 1st GC-UPA Workshop of the German Chapter of Usability Professionals‘ Association, 2003.

A. Birk, “Three case studies on initiating product lines: Enablers and Obstacles,” in Klaus Schmid, Birgit Geppert, Eds., Proceedings of the OOPSLA PLEES’02 International Workshop on Product Line Engineering: The Early Steps: Planning, Modeling, and Managing, 5 November 2002, Seattle, WA, Fraunhofer IESE Report, Kaiserslautern, Germany: Fraunhofer IESE, Oct. 2002, pp. 19–26.

A. Birk, “Identifying and managing information flows in software projects,” in Proceedings of the “Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology” 2002 (Conquest 2002), 18-20 September 2002, Nuremberg, Germany, Sept. 2002.

A. Birk, T. Dingsøyr, and T. Stålhane, “Postmortem: Never leave a project without it,” IEEE Software, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 43–45, May 2002.

A. Birk and D. Pfahl, “A systems perspective on software process improvement,” in Oivo, Markku, Komi-Sirviö, Seija (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2002), 9-11 December 2002, Rovaniemi, Finland, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2559. Berlin: Springer, 2002, pp. 4–18. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36209-6_4

A. Birk and D. Rombach, “A practical approach to continuous improvement in software engineering,” in D.B.Meyerhoff M.J.Wieczorek, editor, Software Quality – State of The Art in Management, Testing, and Tools, Software Quality@Xpert, Springer, Berlin, 2001, pp. 34–45.

A. Birk, S. Hartkopf, and W. Müller, “Strategien für das Wissensmanagement in Software-Organisationen,” in Proceedings of the 6th Congress ‘Software-Qualitätsmanagement’ (SQM 2001), Bonn: SQS Gesellschaft für Software-Qualitätssicherung, 2001, p. 11.

A. Birk, “Wissensmanagement zum besseren Verständnis von Software-Engineering-Technologien,” Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 66–68, 2001.

A. Birk and M. Oivo, “Improving software development of embedded systems,” in Proceedings of the Embedded Systems Conference Europe 2000, Maastricht, The Netherlands: CMP Electronics, Nov. 2000.

A. Birk and W. Müller, “Systematic improvement management: A method for defining and controlling customized improvement programs,” in Proceedings of the 4th International Software Quality Week Europe, Brussels, Nov. 2000.

K. El Emam and A. Birk, “Validating the ISO/IEC 15504 measure of software requirements analysis process capability,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, vol. 26, pp. 541–566, June 2000.

A. Birk, “Aspects of large-scale process studies in industrial settings,” in Janice Singer, Margaret-Anne Storey, and Susan Elliot Sim, editors, Proceedings of the ICSE2000 Workshop on Multidisciplinary Approaches in Empirical Software Engineering Research, Limerick, Ireland, June 2000.

K. El Emam and A. Birk, “Validating the ISO/IEC 15504 measures of software development process capability,” The Journal of Systems and Software, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 119–149, Apr. 2000.

M. Vierimaa, D. Hamann, S. Komi-Sirviö, A. Birk, J. Järvinen, and P. Kuvaja, “Integrated use of software assessments and measurements,” in Günther Ruhe, Frank Bomarius (Eds.): Learning Software Organizations, Methodology and Applications, 11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE’99, Kaiserslautern, Germany, June 16-19, 1999, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin: Springer, 2000, pp. 83–87.

A. Birk and D. Pfahl, “Using simulation to visualise and analyse product-process dependencies in software development projects,” in Bomarius, Frank, Oivo, Markku (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2000), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1840. Berlin: Springer, 2000, pp. 88–102.

A. Birk and F. Kröschel, “A knowledge management lifecycle for experience packages on software engineering technologies,” in Günther Ruhe and Frank Bomarius, editors, Learning Software Organizations – Methodology and Applications, Volume 1756 of Lecture Notes of Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, 2000.

A. Birk and F. Kröschel, “A knowledge management lifecycle for experience packages on software engineering technologies,” in Günther Ruhe, Frank Bomarius (Eds.): Learning Software Organizations, Methodology and Applications, 11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE’99, Kaiserslautern, Germany, June 16-19, 1999, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 1756. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000, pp. 142–160. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0101418

A. Birk, D. Hamann, and S. Hartkopf, “A framework for the continuous monitoring and evaluation of improvement programmes,” in Bomarius, Frank, Oivo, Markku (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2000), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000, pp. 20–35.

K.-D. Althoff et al., “Systematic population, utilization, and maintenance of a repository for comprehensive reuse,” in Günther Ruhe and Frank Bomarius, editors, Learning Software Organizations – Methodology and Applications, Volume 1756 of Lecture Notes of Computer Science, vol. Springer, Berlin, 2000.

K.-D. Althoff et al., “Systematic population, utilization, and maintenance of a repository for comprehensive reuse,” in Günther Ruhe, Frank Bomarius (Eds.): Learning Software Organizations, Methodology and Applications, 11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE’99, Kaiserslautern, Germany, June 16-19, 1999, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 1756. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2000, pp. 25–50. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BFb0101412

M. Oivo, A. Birk, S. Komi-Sirviö, P. Kuvaja, and R. van Solingen, “Establishing product process dependencies in SPI,” in Proceedings of the 4th European Software Engineering Process Group Conference, Delegate Materials, Amsterdam, June 1999.

A. Birk, J. Järvinen, and R. van Solingen, “A validation approach for product-focused process improvement,” in Markku Oivo and Pasi Kuvaja, editors, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 1999), June 22-24, 1999, Oulu, Finland, in VTT Technical Reports, vol. 195. Espoo, Finland: VTT, June 1999, pp. 29–48.

A. Birk, P. Derks, M. Elf-Mattila, J. Hirvensalo, and R. van Solingen, “The PROFES improvement methodology and experience from its industrial application,” in Proceedings of the 4th Congress ‘Software-Qualitätsmanagement’ (SQM’99), Software-Qualitätsmanagement “Made in Germany,” Cologne: SQS Gesellschaft für Software-Qualitätssicherung, Apr. 1999.

A. Birk, P. Derks, M. Elf-Mattila, J. Hirvensalo, and R. van Solingen, “Product-focused software process improvement: The PROFES improvement methodology and experience from its industrial applications,” in Proceedings of the 4th Congress ‘Software-Qualitätsmanagement’ (SQM’99), Software-Qualitätsmanagement “Made in Germany,” Cologne: SQS Gesellschaft für Software-Qualitätssicherung, Apr. 1999.

A. Birk, D. Surmann, and K.-D. Althoff, “Applications of knowledge acquisition in experimental software engineering,” in Dieter Fensel and Rudi Studer, editors, Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management (EKAW’99), 26-29 May 1999, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), in LNAI, vol. 1621. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1999, pp. 67–84.

K.-D. Althoff et al., “Managing software engineering experience for comprehensive reuse,” in Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE’99, Kaiserslautern, Germany, June 16-19, 1999, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 1999.

D. Hamann, J. Järvinen, A. Birk, and D. Pfahl, “A product-process dependency definition method,” in Proceedings of the 24th EUROMICRO Conference (EUROMICRO’98), Engineering Systems and Software for the Next Decade, 25-27 August 1998, Västerås, Sweden, Washington, DC: IEEE Computer Society, 1998, pp. 898–904. [Online]. Available: https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.5555/945405

A. Birk and C. Tautz, “Knowledge Management of Software Engineering Lessons Learned,” in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE’98), San Francisco Bay, CA: Knowledge Systems Institute (KSI), 1998. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-51617.html

A. Birk, R. van Solingen, and J. Järvinen, “Business impact, benefit, and cost of applying GQM in industry: An in-depth, long-term investigation at Schlumberger RPS,” in Proceedings of the 5th International Software Metrics Symposium (Metrics 1998), November 20-21, 1998, Bethesda, MD, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 1998, pp. 93–96. [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1109/METRIC.1998.731231

A. Birk, R. Kempkens, D. Rombach, and G. Ruhe, “Systematic improvement of software engineering processes,” in Wilhelm Hummeltenberg, editor, Information Management for Business and Competitive Intelligence and Excellence, Proceedings der Frühjahrstagung Wirtschaftsinformatik ’98, Braunschweig, Germany: Vieweg, 1998, pp. 265–280. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-84950-2_20.

A. Birk et al., “Applications of measurement in product-focused process improvement: A comparative industrial case study,” in Proceedings of the 5th International Software Metrics Symposium (Metrics 1998), November 20-21, 1998, Bethesda, MD, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 1998, pp. 105–108. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/METRIC.1998.731234

K.-D. Althoff, A. Birk, C. Gresse von Wangenheim, and C. Tautz, “Case-based reasoning for experimental software engineering,” in Mario Lenz, Brigitte Bartsch-Spörl, Hans-Dieter Burkhard, and Stefan Wess, editors, Case-Based Reasoning Technology – From Foundations to Applications, Chapter 9, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998, pp. 235–254. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-69351-3_9

A. Birk, C. Gresse von Wangenheim, K.-D. Althoff, and C. Tautz, “Case-based reasoning for experimental software engineering,” in Jarzabek, Stan, Editor, Proceedings of the 1997 Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR’97), May 17-19, 1997, Boston, MA, New York, NY: ACM, 1997. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-44655.html

A. Birk, “Modelling the application domains of software engineering technologies,” in Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference Automated Software Engineering (ASE’97), Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 1997, pp. 291–292.

K.-D. Althoff, A. Birk, and C. Tautz, “The Experience Factory approach: Realizing learning from experience in software development organizations,” in Proceedings of the 10. Fachgruppentreffen Maschinelles Lernen 1997, 1997. [Online]. Available: http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/PX-47360.html

K.-D. Althoff, A. Birk, and C. Tautz, “Experience Factory: Learning from software engineering experiences,” in Proceedings der 3. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (KogWis97), 1997, pp. 5–8.

A. Birk, B. Tschaitschian, F. Schmalhofer, M. Thüring, and H. Gertzen, “Architecture and User Interface of the IDEAS Intelligent Documentation System,” in Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia, 1995, pp. 79–94. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-45743-2_9.

A. Birk and T. P. Reinartz, “Erster gemeinsamer Workshop der GI-Fachgruppen ‘Knowledge Engineering and Kognition,’” Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), vol. 5, no. 1, p. 78, Mar. 1991.