Prof. Dr. Marcela Ruiz

Work at ZHAW

Focus

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

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0592-1779

Social media

LinkedIn

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 / laufend
• Smart Hospital – Integrated Framework, Tools & Solutions (SHIFT) / Project leader / laufend
• Machine Learning for Software User Interface Testing / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• Exploiting User Journeys and Testing Automation for Supporting Efficient Energy Service Platforms / Team member / abgeschlossen
• COSMOS – DevOps for Complex Cyber-physical Systems of Systems / Team member / abgeschlossen
• Can virtual reality systems help us to design software as we talk? / Project leader / abgeschlossen
• Interscriber: Turning Dialogues into Actionable Insights / Project leader / abgeschlossen

Publications

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Mosquera Tobón, Jose David; Ruiz, Marcela; Pastor, Oscar; Spielberger, Jürgen,

  2023.

  Ontology-based automatic reasoning and NLP for tracing software requirements into models with the OntoTrace tool [paper].

  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

• 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

• 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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