Publications – Quality Software Engineering (QSE)

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Selected Books and Chapters of Books

Biffl S., Lüder A., Gerhard D. (Eds.) Multi-Disciplinary Engineering for Cyber-Physical Production Systems. Springer. 2017.
Biffl S., Sabou M. (Eds.) Semantic Web for Intelligent Engineering Applications. Springer. 2016.
Biffl S., Lüder A., Winkler D.: „Multi-Disciplinary Engineering for Industrie 4.0: Semantic Challenges, Needs, and Capabilities“, In: Biffl S., Sabou M. (Eds.): “Semantic Web for Intelligent Engineering Applications”, Springer, 2016.
Biffl S., Mordinyi R., Steininger H., Winkler D.: „Integrationsplattform für anlagenmodellorientiertes Engineering – Bedarfe und Lösungsansätze“, In: Vogel-Heuser B., Bauernhansl T., ten Hompel M. (Eds.): Handbuch Industrie 4.0″, 2. Auflage, Springer Nachschlagewissen
Sabou M, Kovalenko O, Ekaputra FJ, Biffl S (2015) Beiträge des Semantic Web zum Engineering fur Industrie 4.0. In Vogel-Heuser B, Bauernhansl T, ten Hompel M (Eds) Handbuch Industrie 4.0, Springer, DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-45537-1_90-1
Winkler D., Mordinyi R., Biffl S.: „Qualitätssicherung in heterogenen und verteilten Entwick-lungsumgebungen für industrielle Produktionssysteme“, In: Vogel-Heuser B., Bauernhansl T., ten Hompel M. (Eds.): Handbuch Industrie 4.0″, 2. Auflage, Springer NachschlageWissen
Biffl S, Sabou M (2016) An Introduction to Semantic Web Technologies. In Biffl S, Sabou M (Eds.) Semantic Web for Intelligent Engineering Applications. Springer.
Musil, J., Musil, A., & Biffl, S. (2015). Introduction and Challenges of Environment Architectures for Collective Intelligence Systems. In D. Weyns & F. Michel (Eds.), Agent Environments for Multi-Agent Sys-tems IV. Springer International Publishing.
Novak, P., Kadera, P., Jirkovsky, V., Vrba, P., Biffl, S.: Engineering of Coupled Simulation Models for Mechatronic Systems. Bookchapter in Borangiu, T., Thomas, A., Trentesaux, D. (Eds.): Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing – Studies in Computa-tional Intelligence 594. Part I, pp. 3 – 11. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015
Winkler D., Biffl S., Bergsmann J. (eds): “Software Quality: The Future of Software Quality”; Proceedings of the 8th International Conference, SWQD 2016, Springer, Vienna, Austria, January 18.-21.01.2016.
Winkler D., Bergsmann J., Biffl S. (eds): ‘Software Quality. Software and Systems Quality in Distributed and Mobile Environments’, Proceedings of the 7th Software Quality Days, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Springer, Vienna, Austria, January 20-22, 2015.
Winkler D., Bergsmann J., Biffl S. (eds): ‘Software Quality. Model driven approaches for advanced software engineering’, Proceedings of the 6th Software Quality Days, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (166), Springer, ISBN: 978-3-319-03601-4, 243p., Vienna, Austria, January 14-16, 2014.
Dhungana D., Groher I., Schludermann E., Biffl S.: ‘Guiding principles of natural ecosystems and their applicability to software ecosystems’, In: S. Jansen, S. Brinkkemper and M. Cusumano (Eds.): ‘Software Ecosystems – Analyzing and Managing Business Networks in the Software Industry’, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., ISBN: 9781781955635, pp.43-58, 2013.
Sunindyo W., Moser T., Winkler D., Mordinyi R., Biffl S.: ‘Workflow Validation Framework in Collaborative Engineering Environments’, In: A.W. Loo (Ed.): ‘Distributed Computing Innovations for Business, Engineering, and Science’, IGI-Global, ISBN: 978-1-4666-2533-4, pp.285-299, 2013.
Winkler D., Bergsmann J., Biffl S. (Eds.): ‘Software Quality. Increasing Value in Software and Systems Development’, Proceedings of the 5th Software Quality Days, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (133), Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-35701-5, 259p, Vienna, Austria, January 15-17, 2013.
Biffl S., Winkler D., Bergsmann J. (Eds.): ‘Software Quality. Process Automation in Software Development’, Proceedings of the 4th Software Quality Days, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, (94), Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-27212-7, 229p, Vienna, Austria, January 17-19, 2012.
Winkler D., O’Connor R., Messnarz R. (Eds.): ‘Systems, Software and Service Process Improvement’, Proceedings of the 19th EuroSPI Conference on Systems Software and Service Process Improvement, Communication in Computer and Information Science (301), Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-31198-7, 341p, Vienna, Austria, June 25-27, 2012.
Winkler D., Biffl S.: ‘Improving Quality Assurance in Automation Systems Development Projects’, In: M. Savsar (Ed.): ‘Quality Assurance and Management’, INTEC Publishing, ISBN 978-953-51-0378-3, pp.379-398, 2012.
Omoronyia I., Sindre G., Biffl S., and Stålhane T. (2011); “Understanding Architectural Elements from Requirements Traceability Networks”, in: “Relating Software Requiremens and Software Architecture” Mistrik I. et al. (eds.) 2011, pp. 61-83.
Moser T., Mordinyi R., Sunindyo W. D., and Biffl S. (2010); “Semantic Service Matchmaking in the ATM Domain Considering Infrastructure Capability Constraints”, In: Canadian Semantic Web: Technologies and Applications, Springer,ISBN: 1441973346.
Merdan M., Vallée M., Moser T., and Biffl S. (2010); “A Layered Manufacturing System Architecture Supported with Semantic Agent Capabilities”; in: Semantic Agent Systems: Foundations and Applications; Springer-Verlag.

Schatten A., Biffl S., Demolsky M., Gostischa-Franta E., Östreicher T., Winkler D. (2010); „Best Practice Software Engineering“; Spektrum Akademischer Verlag; ISBN 978.-3-8274-2486-0.
Egyed A., Grünbacher P., Heindl M., Biffl S. (2009); „Value-Based Requirements Traceability: Lessons Learned“; in: „Design Requirements Engineering: A Ten-Year Perspective“; Lyytinen, K.J.; Loucopoulos, P.; Mylopoulos, J.; Robinson, W. (Eds.), Springer LN Business Information Processing Nr. 14; ISBN: 978-3-540-92965-9; pp. 240 – 257.
Winkler D., S. Biffl (2008): “Das ISO 9000:2000 Regelwerk – Ansätze zur Integration des VM XT mit einem Qualitätsmanagementsystem”; in: “Das V-Modell XT: Grundlagen, Methodik und Anwendungen”, herausgegeben von: Reinhard Höhn, Stephan Höppner, A. Rausch, M. Broy; Springer, Heidelberg, 2008, ISBN: 978-3540302490, S. 481 – 509.
Fladischer S., S. Biffl (2008): “Objektorientierte Softwareprodukte mit RUP und UML”; in: “Das V-Modell XT: Grundlagen, Methodik und Anwendungen”, herausgegeben von: Reinhard Höhn, Stephan Höppner, A. Rausch, M. Broy; Springer, Heidelberg, 2008, ISBN: 978-3540302490, S. 276 – 298.
Biffl S., Aurum A., Boehm B., Erdogmus H., Grünbacher P. (eds.) (2005) “Value-Based Software Engineering”, Springer Verlag, ISBN:3-540-25993-7.
Ramler R., Biffl S. , Grünbacher P. (2005) “Value-Based Management of Software Testing”, in: Biffl S., Aurum A., Boehm B., Erdogmus H., Grünbacher P. (eds.) “Value-Based Software Engineering”, Springer Verlag, ISBN:3-540-25993-7, p.225-244.
Grünbacher P. , Köszegi S., Biffl S. (2005) “Stakeholder Value Propostion Elicitation and Reconciliation”, in: Biffl S., Aurum A., Boehm B., Erdogmus H., Grünbacher P. (eds.) “Value-Based Software Engineering”, Springer Verlag, ISBN:3-540-25993-7, p. 133-154.
Ciolkowski M., Laitenberger O., Vegas S., Biffl S. (2003) “Practical Experiences in the Design and Conduct of Surveys in Empirical Software Engineering” , in R. Conradi, Wang A.I.(eds) Empirical Methods and Studies in Software Engineering – Experiences from ESERNET, LNCS2765, Springer Verlag, p. 104-128
Biffl S., Halling M. (2003) “Managing Software Inspection Knowledge for Decision Support of Inspection Planning”, in “Managing Software Engineering Knowledge” edited by A. Aurum, R. Jeffery, C. Wohlin, M. Handzic, Springer Verlag.
Biffl S. (2001) “Software Inspection Techniques to support Project and Quality Management”, Habilitation Thesis, Shaker Verlag, Aachen, Germany, May 2001.

Selected Papers in Refereed Journals

Vogel-Heuser, Birgit, Stefan Biffl: Cross-discipline modeling and its contribution to automation. Automatisierungstechnik 64(3): 165-167 (2016)
Berardinelli, L.; S. Biffl, A. Lüder, E. Mätzler, T. Mayerhofer, M. Wimmer, S. Wolny: “Cross-disciplinary Engineering with AutomationML and SysML”; at – Automatisierungstechnik, 64 (2016), 4; 253 – 269
Bures, T., Weyns, D., Berger, C., Biffl, S., Daun, M., Gabor, T., Garlan, D., Gerostathopou-los, I., Julien, C., Krikava, F., Mordinyi, R., and Pronios, N. 2015. Software Engineering for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems — Towards a Research Agenda: Report on the First Interna-tional Workshop on Soft-ware Engineering for Smart CPS. SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes 40, 6 (November 2015), 28-32.
Biffl S., Kalinowski M., Rabiser R., Ekaputra F.J., Winkler D.: ‘Systematic Knowledge Engineering: Building Bodies of Knowledge from Published Research’, IJSEKE Journal 24(10), Special Issue on Design and Knowledge in Software Development and Social Media, pp. 1533-1571, December 2014.
Kalinowski, M., Biffl, S., Spinola, R.O., Reinehr, S.: ‘From project-oriented to service-oriented software development: an industrial experience guided by a service reference model’, In: Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development, 2(10), Springer, 21p., 2014.
Winkler D., Biffl S.: ‘Guest editorial: special section on software quality assurance and quality management’, In: Software Quality Journal (SQJ), Guest Editorial, Springer, 22(3), pp.467-468, 2014.
Biffl S.: ‘Guest Editorial for the Special Section on the Euromicro 2011 Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA)’, In: Journal on Information and Software Technology (IST), 55(6), Elsevier Science, p.1063, 2013.
Merdan M., Moser T., Sunindyo W., Biffl S., Vrba P.: ‘Workflow scheduling using multi-agent systems in a dynamically changing environment’, In: Journal of Simulation, 7(3), Palgrave mcmillan, ISSN: 1747-7778, pp.144-158, 2012 (online), 2013 (print).
Biffl S., Mordinyi R., Moser T.: ‘Anforderungsanalyse für das integrierte Engineering – Mechanismen und Bedarfe aus der Praxis’, In: ATP Edition, 54(5), DIV Deutscher Industrieverlag GmbH, pp.28-35, 2012 (Best Paper Award).
Biffl S., Mordinyi R., Moser T.: ‘Integriertes Engineering mit Automation Service Bus – Paralleles Engineering mit heterogenen Werkzeugen’, In: ATP Edition, 54(12), DIV Deutscher Industrieverlag GmbH, pp.36-43, 2012.
Moser, T. and Biffl, S. (2012); Semantic Integration of Software and Systems Engineering Environments; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C (SMC-C) – Special issue on Semantics – enabled Software Engineering; 43(1): 38-50.
Biffl, S.; Moser, T., and Winkler, D. (2011): “Risk Assessment In Multi-Disciplinary (Software+) Engineering Projects”; International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE) – Special Issue: Software Risk Assessment 21(2): 211-236.
Moser, T., Biffl, S., Sunindyo, W. and Winkler, D. (2011): “Integrating Production Automation Expert Knowledge Across Engineering Domains”, International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), Special Issue on Emerging Trends and Challenges in Large-Scale Networking and Distributed Systems, vol. 2(3), pp. 88-103.
Kremmel, T., Kubalik, J. and Biffl, S. (2011): “Software project portfolio optimization with advanced multiobjective evolutionary algorithms”, Applied Soft Computing, vol. 11(1), p. 23.
Sunindyo W., Moser T, Winkler D., Biffl S. (2011); Analyzing OSS Project Health with Heterogeneous Data Sources; IJOSSP 3(4): 1-23.
Merdan, M.; Moser, T.; Vrba, P., and Biffl, S. (2010): Investigating the Robustness of Re-Scheduling Policies with Multi-Agent System Simulation; International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (IJAMT).

Kubalik J., R. Mordinyi, Biffl S. (2008): “Multiobjective Prototype Optimization with Evolved Im-provement Steps”; in: “Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization”, LNCS/Springer Berlin, 4972/2008/ Heidelberg, ISSN: 0302-9743; S. 218 – 229.
Wahyudin D. , Mustofa K. Schatten A., Tjoa A., Biffl S. (2007): “Monitoring “Health” Status of Open Source Web Engineering Projects”; International Journal of Web Information Systems, 1/2, 3; S. 116 – 139
Biffl S., Grünbacher P., Halling M.; (2006) “A Family of Experiments to Investigate the Effects of Groupware for Software Inspection”, IEEE Journal of Automated Software Engineering.
Biffl S., Winkler D., Höhn R., Wetzel H. (2006): „Software Process Improvement in Europe: Potential of the new V-Model XT and Research Issues“, in Journal “Software Process: Improvement and Practice”, Volume 11(3), pp.229-238, Wiley, 2006.
Biffl S., Grünbacher P., Halling M.; (2006) “A Family of Experiments to Investigate the Effects of Groupware for Software Inspection”, IEEE Journal of Automated Software Engineering.
Auer M., Trendowicz A., Graser B., Haunschmid E., Biffl S.; (2006) “Optima Project Feature Weights in Analogy-Based Cost Estimation: Improvement and Limitations”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.
Schmid, K., Biffl S.; (2005) “Systematic Management of Software Product Lines”, Int. Journal of Software Process Improvement (SPIP), 10(1): 61-76.
Grünbacher P., Halling M., Biffl S., Kitapci H., Boehm B. W.(2004) “Integrating Collaborative Processes and Quality Assurance Techniques: An Example from Requirements Negotiation”, Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), 20 (4): 9-30.
Rus, I., Halling, M., Biffl S. (2003) “Supporting Decision-Making in Software Engineering with Process Simulation and Empirical Studies”, Int. Jour. of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE), 13 (5): 531-545.
Halling M., Biffl S., Grünbacher P. (2003) “An Economic Approach for Improving Requirements Negotiation Models with Inspection”, Requirements Engineering Journal, 8: 236-247, Springer Verlag.
Ciolkowski, M.; Laitenberger, O.; Biffl, S. (2003)”Software reviews: The state of the practice”, IEEE Software, 20 (6) Nov.-Dec. 2003, pp.46-51.
Biffl, S.; Halling, M. (2003) “Investigating the defect detection effectiveness and cost benefit of nominal inspection teams”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 29 (5), May 2003, pp.385-397.
Biffl S. (2002) “Evaluating Defect Estimation Models with Major Defects”, Journal of Systems and Software 65: 13-29.
Halling M., Biffl, S. (2002) “Investigating the Influence of Software Inspection Process Parameters on Inspection Meeting Performance”, IEE Proceedings-Software Engineering 149(5), IEE Publishing, pp. 115-121.
Biffl S., Gutjahr W. (2002) “Using a Reliability Growth Model to Control Software Inspection”, Empirical Software Engineering: An international journal; vol.7, pp. 257-284, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Biffl S. (2001) “Lesetechniken für die Inspektion von Software-Anforderungsdokumenten” , Informatik, Forschung & Entwicklung, September 2001.
Biffl St. (2000) “Using Inspection Data for Defect Estimation”, IEEE Software special issue on recent project estimation methods, December 2000.

Selected Papers in Refereed Conference Proceedings

Berardinelli, L., S. Biffl, E. Mätzler, T. Mayerhofer, M. Wimmer: “Model-Based Co-Evolution of Production Systems and their Libraries with AutomationML”; in: “Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2015)”, IEEE, (2015), ISBN: 978-1-4673-7929-8; 1 – 8; (Best Paper Award).
Biffl, S., L. Berardinelli, E. Mätzler, M. Wimmer, A. Lüder, N. Schmidt: “Model-Based Risk Assessment in Multi-Disciplinary Systems Engineering”; Talk: 41st Euromicro Conference Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2015), Madeira, Portugal; 08-26-2015 – 08-28-2015; in: “Proceedings of the 41st Euromicro Conference Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2015)”, IEEE, (2015), ISBN: 978-1-4673-7585-6; 438 – 445
Biffl, S., E. Maetzler, M. Wimmer, A. Lueder, N. Schmidt, “Linking and versioning support for AutomationML: A model-driven engineering perspective”. In: Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), IEEE, 2015.
Mordinyi, R., Schindler, P., and Biffl, S. 2015. Evaluation of NoSQL Graph Databases for Querying and Versioning of Engineering Data in Multi-disciplinary Engineering Environ-ments. in Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation (ETFA), 2015 IEEE 20th Confer-ence on , vol., no., pp.1-8, 8-11 Sept. 2015
Mordinyi R., Winkler D., Waltersdorfer F., Scheiber S., Biffl S.: ‘Integrating Heterogeneous Engineering Tools and Data Models: A Roadmap for Developing Architecture Variants’, In: Proceedings of the 7th Software Quality Days (SWQD), Lecture Notes, Springer, 18p., Vienna, Austria, January, 20-22, 2015.
Musil, J., Musil, A., Weyns, D., & Biffl, S. (2015). An Architecture Framework for Collective Intelligence Systems. In Proc. of the 12th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Ar-chitecture (WICSA’15) (pp. 21–30). IEEE.
Musil, J., Musil, A., & Biffl, S. (2015). SIS: An Architecture Pattern for Collective Intelli-gence Systems. In Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (EuroPLoP ’15) (pp. 20:1–20:12). ACM.
Novak, P., Serral, E., Mordinyi, R. and Biffl, S. 2015. Integrating Heterogeneous Engineering Knowledge and Tools for Efficient Industrial Simulation Model Support. Advanced Engi-neering Informatics, Volume 29, Issue 3, August 2015, Pages 575-590
Winkler D., Biffl S.: “Focused Inspections to Support Defect Detection in Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Environments”, Research Preview Paper, In: Proceedings of the 16th Internation-al Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES), Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, December 2-4, 2015.

Biffl S., Kalinowski M., Ekaputra F., Serral E., Winkler D.: ‘Building Empirical Software Engineering Bodies of Knowledge with Systematic Knowledge Engineering’, In: Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), Knowledge Systems Institute Graduate School, ISBN: 1-891706-35-7, pp.552-559, Vancouver, Canada, July 1-2 2014.
Biffl S., Winkler D., Mordinyi R., Scheiber S., Holl G.: ‘Efficient Monitoring of Constraints in a Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Project with Semantic Data Integration in the Multi-Model Dashboard Process’, In: Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4799-4845-1, pp.1-10, Barcelona, Spain, September 16-19, 2014.
Biffl S., Lüder A., Schmidt N., Winkler D.: ‘Early and Efficient Quality Assurance of Risky Technical Parameters in a Mechatronic Design Process’, In: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), IEEE, 7p, Dallas, Texas, USA, October 28-November 1, 2014.
Biffl S., Mordinyi R., Raidl G., Steininger H., Winkler D.: ‘An SME Transition from Plan-Driven to Hybrid Project Management with Agile Software Development Methods’, In: Proceedings of the 21th EuroSPI Conference on Systems Software and Service Process Improvement, Industrial Track, Delta, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, June 25-27, 2014.
Biffl S., Kalinowski M., Ekaputra F.J., Neto A.A.., Conte T., Winkler D.: ‘Towards a Semantic Knowledge Base on Threats to Validity and Control Actions in Controlled Experiments’, In: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Short Paper, Article 49, ACM, ISBN: 978-1-4503-2774-9, 4p, Torino, Italy, September 18-19, 2014.
Ekaputra F.J., Serral E., Biffl. S: ‘Building an Empirical Software Engineering Research Knowledge Base from Heterogeneous Data Sources’, In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-Driven Business (I-KNOW), ACM, Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014.
Grünwald A., Winkler D., Sabou M., Biffl S.: ‘The Semantic Model Editor: Efficient Data Modeling and Integration based on OWL Ontologies’, In: Proceedings of the 10th International Semantic Systems (SEMANTIC), ACM, 8p, Leipzig, Germany, September 4-5, 2014. (Nominated for Best Paper Award).
Kovalenko O., Winkler D., Kalinowski M., Serral E., Biffl S.: ‘Engineering Process Improvement in Heterogeneous Multi-Disciplinary Environments with the Defect Causal Analysis’, In: Proceedings of the 21th EuroSPI Conference on Systems Software and Service Process Improvement, Communication in Computer and Information Science, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-662-43895-4, pp.73-85, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, June 25-27, 2014.
Kovalenko O., Serral E., Sabou M., Ekaputra F.J., Winkler D., Biffl S.: ‘Automating Cross-Disciplinary Defect Detection in Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Environments’, In: Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW), Short Paper, Springer, 12p., Linköping, Sweden, November 24-28, 2014.
Lüder A., Schmidt N., Steininger H., Biffl S.: ‘Analyse von Anforderungen an Software-Systeme zum Steuerungsentwurf’, In: Tagungsband der 13. Fachtagung für den Entwurf Komplexer Automatisierungssysteme (EKA), IFAK, 14p, Magdeburg, Germany, May 14-15, 2014.
Mordinyi R., Serral E., Winkler D., Biffl S.: ‘Evaluating Software Architectures using Ontologies for Storing and Versioning of Engineering Data in Heterogeneous Systems Engineering Environments’, In: Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4799-4845-1, pp.1-10, Barcelona, Spain, September 16-19, 2014.
Musil J., Musil A., Biffl S.: ‘Towards a Coordination-Centric Architecture Metamodel for Social Web Applications’, In: Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), Springer, Vienna, Austria, August 25-29, 2014.
Schmidt N., Lüder A., Steininger H., Biffl S.: ‘AutomationML for User Requirements fulfillment related to Engineering Process Efficiency’, In: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), IEEE, Dallas, Texas, USA, October 28-November 1, 2014.
Schmidt N., Lüder A., Biffl S., Steininger H.: ‘Analyzing requirements on software tools according to functional engineering phase in the Technical Systems Engineering Process’, In: Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4799-4845-1, pp.1-8, Barcelona, Spain, September 16-19, 2014.
Thillen F., Mordinyi R., Biffl S.: ‘Isolated Testing of Software Components in Distributed Software Systems’, In: Proceedings of the 6th Software Quality Days, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (166), Short Paper, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-319-03601-4, pp.170-184, Vienna, Austria, January 14-16, 2014.
Willmann R., Biffl S., Serral E.: ‘Determining Qualified Production Processes for New Product Ramp-up using Semantic Web Technologies’, In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-Driven Business (I-KNOW), ACM, 8p., Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014.
Winkler D., Schönbauer M., Biffl S.: ‘Towards Automated Process and Workflow Management: A Feasibility Study on Tool-Supported and Automated Engineering Process Modeling Approaches’, In: Proceedings of the 40th Euromicro Conferences on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), Software Management Track, IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4799-5795-8, pp.102-110, Verona, Italy, August 27-29, 2014.

Biffl S., Serral E., Winkler D., Dieste O., Juristo N., Condori-Fernandez N.: ‘Replication Data Management: Needs and Solutions: An evaluation of conceptual approaches for integrating heterogeneous replication study data’, In: Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), ACM/IEEE, ISBN: 978-0-7695-5056-5, pp.233-242, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, October 10-22, 2013.
Ekaputra F., Serral E., Winkler D., Biffl S.: ‘An analysis framework for ontology querying tools’, In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS) in conjunction with the 13h International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies (I-KNOW), ACM, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1972-0, pp.1-8, Graz, Austria, September 6th, 2013 (Best Paper Award).
Fay A., Biffl S., Winkler D., Drath R., Barth M.: ‘A method to evaluate the openness of automation tools for increased interoperability’, In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4799-0223-1, pp.6842-6847, Vienna, Austria, November 10-13, 2013.
Kovalenko O., Debruyne C., Serral E., Biffl S.: ‘Evaluation of Technologies for Mapping Representation in Ontologies’, In: Proceedings of On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems (OTM) Conferences, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-41029-1, pp.564-571, Graz, Austria, September 9-13, 2013.
Kovalenko O., Serral E., Biffl S.: ‘Towards evaluation and comparison of tools for ontology population from spreadsheet data’, In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Semantic Systems (I-SEMANTICS), ACM, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1972-0, pp.57-64, Graz, Austria, September 4-6, 2013.
Mordinyi R., Prybila C., Winkler D., Biffl S.: ‘Communication in Multi-discipline Engineering Projects using Local Data Point References’, In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4799-0223-1, pp.6848-6855, Vienna, Austria, November 10-13, 2013.
Serral E., Mordinyi R., Kovalenko O., Winkler D., Biffl S. : ‘Evaluation of Semantic Data Storages for Integrating Heterogeneous Disciplines in Automation Systems Engineering’, In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4799-0223-1, pp.6856-6863, Vienna, Austria, November 10-13, 2013.
Serral E., Mordinyi R., Biffl S.: ‘Effective and Considerate Change Notifications in Multidisciplinary Engineering Projects’, In: Improving Enterprise Communication, Proceedings of the 22nd International conference on Information Systems Development (ISD), Springer, ISBN: 978-3-319-07214-2, pp.445-457, Sevilla, Spain, September 2-4, 2013.
Serral E., Kovalenko O. , Moser T., Biffl S.: ‘A Systematic Comparison of Semantic Integration Data Storage Architectures for Multidisciplinary Systems’, In: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD), SciTePress, ISBN: 978-989-8565-42-6, pp.190-197, Barcelona, Spain, February,19-21, 2013.
Willmann R., Serral E., Kastner W., Biffl S.: ‘Shortening of product ramp-up by using a centralized knowledge base’, In: Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4799-0752-6, pp.516-522, Bochum, Germany, July 29-31, 2013.
Winkler D., Kitzler M., Steindl C., Biffl S.: ‘Investigating the Impact of Experience and Solo/Pair Programming on Coding Efficiency: Results and Experiences from Coding Contests’, In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP), Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-38313-7, pp.106-120, Vienna, Austria, June 3-7, 2013.
Winkler D., Mordinyi R., Biffl S.: ‘Research Prototypes versus Products: Lessons Learned from Software Development Processes in Research Projects’, In: Proceedings of the 20th EuroSPI Conference on Systems Software and Service Process Improvement, Communication in Computer and Information Science (364), Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-39178-1, pp.48-59, Dundalk, Ireland, June 25-27, 2013.

Biffl S., Moser T., Hundt L., Lüder A.: ‘Erweiterung von vorhandenen Werkzeugketten zum Engineering von Wasserkraftwerken mit Hilfe von AutomationML’, In: VDI Berichte, VOL 2171 , VDI/VDE, ISBN: 9783180921716, pp.41-46, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2012.
Daramola O., Moser T., Sindre G., Biffl S.: ‘Managing Implicit Requirements Using Semantic Case-Based Reasoning Research Preview’, In: Proceedings of the 18th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ), Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-28713-8, pp.172-178, Essen, Germany, March 19-22, 2012.
Mordinyi R., Moser T., Biffl S.: ‘Test-case generation for the validation of Integrated Automation Systems Engineering Environments’, In: Proceedings of the 7th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD). Modelling and Model Transformation in Automation Technologies, IFAC, ISBN: 978-3-902823-23-6, pp.866-871, Vienna, Austria, February, 15-17, 2012.
Mordinyi R., Moser T., Winkler D., Biffl S.: ‘Navigating between Tools in Heterogeneous Automation Systems Engineering Landscapes’, In: Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4673-2419-9, pp.6182-6188, Montreal, Canada, October 25-28, 2012.
Moser T., Mordinyi R., Winkler D., Biffl S.: ‘Extending Mechatronic Objects for Automation Systems Engineering in Heterogeneous Engineering Environments’, In: Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4673-4735-8, pp.1-8, Krakow, Poland, September 17-21, 2012.
Musil J., Musil A., Winkler D., Biffl S.: ‘A First Account on Stigmergic Information Systems and their Impact on Platform Development’, In: Proceedings of the Nordic Symposium on Cloud Computing and Internet Technology (Nordic Cloud), co-located with the 10th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA) and the 6th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA), pp.69-73, Helsinki, Finland, August 20-24, 2012.
Winkler D., Schmidt M., Ramler R., Biffl S.: ‘Improving Unfamiliar Code with Unit-Tests: An Empirical Investigation on Tool-Supported and Human-Based Testing’, In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (Profes), Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-31062-1, pp.290-304, Madrid, Spain, June 13-15, 2012.

Daramola, O., Stålhane, T., Moser, T. and Biffl, S., (2011), A Conceptual Framework for Semantic Case-based Safety Analysis, Proc. 16th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Toulouse, France, pp. 1-8.
Mordinyi, R., Moser, T., Biffl, S. and Dhungana, D., (2011), Flexible Support for Adaptable Software and Systems Engineering Processes, Proc. 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2011), Eden Roc Renaissance Hotel Miami Beach, USA, pp. 1-5.
Mordinyi, R., Pacha, A. and Biffl, S., (2011), Quality Assurance for Data from Low-Tech Participants in Distributed Automation Engineering Environments, Proc. 16th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA2011), Toulouse, France, pp. 1-4.
Moser, T., Winkler, D., Heindl, M. and Biffl, S., (2011), Automating the Detection of Complex Semantic Conflicts between Software Requirements, Proc. 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2011), Miami Beach, USA.
Moser, T., Mordinyi, R., Winkler, D., Melik-Merkumians, M. and Biffl, S., (2011), Efficient Automation Systems Engineering Process Support Based on Semantic Integration of Engineering Knowledge, Proc. 16th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Toulouse, France.
Moser, T., Mordinyi, R., Winkler, D. and Biffl, S., (2011), Engineering Project Management Using The Engineering Cockpit, Proc. IEEE 9th International Conference on. Industrial Informatics (INDIN’2011), Caparica, Lisbon, Portugal, p. accepted for publication.
Moser, T., Winkler, D., Heindl, M. and Biffl, S., (2011), Requirements Management with Semantic Technology: An Empirical Study on Automated Requirements Categorization and Conflict Analysis, Proc. 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’11), London, United Kingdom, pp. 1-15.
Moser, T. and Biffl, S., (2011), SemTrace: Semantic Requirements Tracing Using Explicit Requirement Knowledge, Proc. 10th International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2011), Creete, Greece, pp. 1-15.
Moser, T., Sunindyo, W., Merdan, M. and Biffl, S., (2011), Supporting Runtime Decision Making in the Production Automation Domain Using Design Time Engineering Knowledge, Proc. 1st International Workshop on Ontology and Semantic Web for Manufacturing (OSEMA-10).
Moser, T., Waltersdorfer, F., Winkler, D. and Biffl, S., (2011), Version Management and Conflict Detection across Tools in a (Software+) Engineering Environment, Proc. Software Quality Days 2011, Vienna, Austria.
Winkler, D. and Biffl, S., (2011), Angepasste Testverfahren für automatisches Testen von Automatisierungssystemen, Proc. Software & Systems Engineering Essentials (SEE-2011), Frankfurt, Germany.
Winkler, D., Moser, T., Mordinyi, R., Sunindyo, W. and Biffl, S., (2011), Engineering Object Change Management Process Observation in Distributed Automation Systems Projects, Proc. 18th European System & Software Process Improvement and Innovation (EuroSPI 2011), Roskilde, Denmark, p. accepted for publication.
Winkler, D. and Biffl, S., (2011), Interdisziplinäre Systementwicklungsprojekte: Änderungsmanagement über Werkzeuggrenzen hinweg, Proc. Software & Systems Engineering Essentials (SEE-2011), Frankfurt, Germany.

Biffl, S.; Sunindyo, W. and Moser, T. (2010); Semantic Integration of Heterogeneous Data Sources for Monitoring Frequent-Release Software Projects, Proc. 4th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2010), Krakow, isbn: 978-1-4244-5917-9 pp. 360-367.
Moser, T.; Biffl, S.; Sunindyo, W. & Winkler, D.; Integrating Production Automation Expert Knowledge Across Engineering Stakeholder Domains, Proc. 4th International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2010), ISBN: 978-0-7695-3967-6, pp. 352-359, Krakow, Poland, 15.-18.02.2010.
Biffl, S.; Sunindyo, W. & Moser, T.; A Project Monitoring Cockpit Based On Integrating Data Sources in Open Source Software Development, Proc. Twenty-Second International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2010), San Fransisco Bay, USA, isbn: 1-891706-26-8, pp. 620-627, 2010.
Moser, T. & Biffl, S.; Semantic Tool Interoperability for Engineering Manufacturing Systems, Proc. 15th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2010), 2010.
Hametner, R., Winkler, D., Östreicher, T., Surnic, N. and Biffl, S., Selecting UML Models for Test-Driven Development along the Automation Systems Engineering Process, Proc. 15th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Work in Progress Session, Bilbao, Spain, 2010, 13.-16.09.2010.
Hametner, R., Winkler, D., Östreicher, T., Biffl, S., Zoitl, A., The Adaptation of Test-Driven Software Processes to Industrial Automation Engineering, Proc. 8th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN2010), ISBN: 978-1-4244-7298-7, pp. 921-927, Osaka, Japan, 13.-16.07.2010.
Moser, T.; Dürr, G. & Biffl, S.; Ontology-Based Test Case Generation For Simulating Complex Production Automation Systems, Proc. Twenty-Second International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2010), San Fransisco Bay, USA, isbn: 1-891706-26-8, pp. 478-482, 2010.
Moser, T.; Waltersdorfer, F.; Zoitl, A. & Biffl:, S.; Version Management and Conflict Detection Across Heterogeneous Engineering Data Models, Proc. 8th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN 2010) , 2010.
Moser, T., Merdan, M. and Biffl, S., A Pattern-Based Coordination and Test Framework for Multi-Agent Simulation of Production Automation Systems, Proc. 2010 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS), Krakow, isbn: 978-1-4244-5917-9 pp. 526-533, 2010.
Winkler, D., Biffl, S., Seemann, C., A Controlled Experiment on Team Meeting Style in Software Architecture Evaluation“, Proc. 14th Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), pp. 1-10, Keele, Great Britain, 12.-13.04.2010.
Winkler, D., Biffl, S. and Kaltenbach, A., Evaluating Tools that Support Pair Programming in a Distributed Engineering Environment, Proc. Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), pp. 1-10, Keele, Great Britain, 12.-13.04.2010.
Winkler, D., Faderl, K., Biffl, S., Investigating the Temporal Behavior of Defect Detection in Software Inspection and Inspection-Based Testing, Proc. 11th Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2010), ISBN: 978-3-642-13792-1, pp 17-31, Limerick, Ireland, 21.-23.06.2010.
Winkler, D., Elberzhager, F., Biffl, S. and Eschbach, R., Software Process Improvement Initiatives based on Quality Assurance Strategies: A QATAM Pilot Application, Proc. 17th European Systems & Software Process Improvement and Innovation (EuroSPI) , ISBN: 978-3-642-15666-3, pp. 71-82, Grenoble, France, 01.-03.09.2010.
Musil, J.; Schweda, A.; Winkler, D. & Biffl, S.; Improving Video Game Development: Facilitating Heterogeneous Team Collaboration Through Flexible Software Processes, Proc. 17th European Systems and Software Process Improvement and Innovation Conference (EuroSPI 2010), ISBN: 978-3-642-15666-3, pp 83-93, Grenoble, France, 01-03.09.2010.
Sunindyo, W.; Moser, T.; Winkler, D. & Biffl, S.; Foundations for Event-Based Process Analysis in Heterogeneous Software Engineering Environments, Proc. 36th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2010), Lille, France, isbn: 978-0-7695-4170-9, pp. 313-322, 2010, 01.-03.09.2010.
Murth, M., Winkler, D., Biffl, S., Kühn, e. and Moser, T., Performance Testing of Semantic Publish/Subscribe Systems, Proc. 9th International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE), Poster Session, Crete, Greece, 26.-27.10.2010.
Omoronyia, I., Sindre, G., Stålhane, T., Biffl, S., Moser, T. and Sunindyo, W. D., A Domain Ontology Building Process for Guiding Requirements Elicitation, Proc. 16th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering (RefsQ 2010), pp. 188-202, 2010.

Biffl S. and Schatten A. (2009) “A Platform for Service-Oriented Integration of Software Engineering Environments”; invited keynote paper; Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SOMET 09), ISSN: 0922-6389; Prague, September 2009; S. 75 – 92.
Winkler D., Biffl S., Östreicher T. (2009) “Test-Driven Automation – Adopting Test-First Development to Improve Automation Systems Engineering Processes” Proc. European Conf. on Software Process Improvement (EuroSPI), Madrid, Spain, S. 1 – 13.
Winkler D., Hametner R., Biffl S. (2009) “Automation Component Aspects for Efficient Unit Testing”; Proc. Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA) Conf., S. 1 – 8.
Mordinyi R., Moser T., Kühn E., Biffl S., Mikula A. (2009) „Foundations for a Model-Driven Integration of Business Services in a Safety-Critical Application Domain“; Proc. Euromicro Conf., Track on Software Product and Process Improvement; IEEE Computer Society, (2009), ISBN: 978-0-7695-3784-9; S. 267 – 274..
Biffl S., Schatten A., Zoitl A. (2009) “Integration of Heterogeneous Engineering Environments for the Automation Systems Life cycle”; Proc. IEEE Industrial Informatics (IndIn) Conf.; IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-4244-3760-3.
Lüder A., Hundt L., Biffl S. (2009) “On the Suitability of Modeling Approaches For Engineering Distributed Control Systems”; Proc. IEEE Industrial Informatics (IndIn) Conf., 2009 (best paper award); IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009, ISBN: 978-1-4244-3760-3, S. 440 – 445.
Biffl S., Moser T., Sunindyo W. (2009) “Bridging Semantic Gaps Between Stakeholders in the Pro-duction Automation Domain with Ontology Areas”; Proc. Int. Conf on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), Boston, USA; ISBN: 1-891706-24-1; S. 233 – 239..
Moser T., Mordinyi R., Sunindyo W., Biffl S. (2009a) “Semantic Service Matchmaking in the ATM Domain Considering Network Capability Constraints”; Proc. Int. Conf on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), Boston, USA; ISBN: 1-891706-24-1; S. 222 – 227.
Moser T., Roth H., Rozsnyai S., Mordinyi R., Biffl S. (2009) “Semantic Event Correlation Using Ontologies”; Proc. 8th Int. Conf. on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE)2009, Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-05150-0; S. 1087 – 1094.
Auer M., Pölz J., Biffl S. (2009); „End-User Development in a Graphical User Interface Setting“; in: Proc. Int. Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) 2009, Springer, 2009, ISBN: 978-3-642-01346-1..
Biffl S., Ferstl C., Höllwieser C., Moser T. (2009); „Evaluation Of Case Tool Methods And Processes – An Analysis of Eight Open-source CASE Tools“; in: Proc. 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2009, Milan, Italy; 06.05.2009 – 10.05.2009; in: “Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems”, J. Cordeiro, J. Filipe (Hrg.); Springer, LNBIP 24 (2009), ISBN: 978-3-642-01346-1.
Moser T., Mordinyi R., Biffl S., Mikula A. (2009); „Efficient System Integration Using Semantic Requirements And Capability Models“; in: Proc. Int. Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) 2009; Systems”, J. Cordeiro, J. Filipe (Hrg.); Springer, LNBIP 24 (2009), ISBN: 978-989-8111-84-5; S. 56 – 63..
Moser T., R. Mordinyi, A. Mikula, S. Biffl (2009): “Making Expert Knowledge Explicit to Facilitate Tool Support for Integrating Complex Information Systems in the ATM Domain”; Proc. Intl. Conf. on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS) 2009; ISBN: 978-0-7695-3575-3; S. 90 – 97..
Kiechle G., Dörner K., Biffl S. (2009): „Strategies to Support Ambulance Scheduling with Efficient Routing Services“; in: Proc. Business Informatics Conference; Vienna.

Biffl S., M. Ali Babar, D. Winkler (2008): “Impact of Experience and Team Size on the Quality of Scenarios for Architecture Evaluation”; in: “Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE)”, G. Visaggio, M. Baldassarre, S. Linkman, M. Turner (Hrg.); (2008), S. 1 – 10. (best paper award)
Oza N., S. Biffl, C. Frühwirth, Y. Selioukova, R. Sarapisto (2008): “Reducing the Risk of Misalignment between Software Process Improvement Initiatives and Stakeholder Values”; in: “Proceedings of the European Systems & Software Process Improvement and Innovation (EuroSPI 2008)”, Springer, (2008), ISBN: 9783540859345
Merdan M. , T Moser, D. Wahyudin, S. Biffl, P. Vrba (2008): “Simulation of Workflow Scheduling Strategies using the MAST Test Management System”; in: “Proceedings 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision”, (2008), ISBN: 978-1-4244-2287-6; 6 S.
Merdan M., T Moser, D. Wahyudin, S. Biffl (2008): “Performance Evaluation of Workflow Scheduling Strategies Considering Transportation Times and Conveyor Failures”; in: “Proceedings IEEM 2008”, (2008), ISBN: 978-14244-2630-0; 6 S.
Matousek K., D. Wahyudin, S. Biffl (2008): “Model-Driven Development of Intelligent Mass Customization Systems”; in: “European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research Vol 2”, The Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, Volume 2/ Vienna (2008), ISBN: 9783-85206-175-7; S. 573 – 579.
Winkler D. , S. Biffl, M. Ali Babar (2008): “An Empirical Investigation of Scenarios Gained and Lost in Architecture Evaluation Meetings”; in: “Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement”, IEEE Computer Society, (2008), ISBN: 978-1-59593-971-5
Wahyudin D. , A. Schatten, D. Winkler, A. Tjoa, S. Biffl (2008): “Defect Prediction using Combined Product and Project Metrics: A Case Study from the Open Source “Apache” MyFaces Project Family”; in: “Proceedings of the Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, 2008. SEAA ’08. 34th Euromicro Conference”, IEEE Computer Society, (2008), ISBN: 978-0-7695-3276-9; S. 207 – 215.
Wahyudin D., Ramler R., Biffl S. (2008): „A Framework for Defect Prediction in Specific Software Project Contexts“; in: “Proceedings of CEE-SET 2008”, Springer Lecture Note on Computer Sciences.

Auer M. , L. Meyer, S. Biffl (2007): “Explorative UML Modeling – Comparing the Usability of UML Tools”; in: “Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2007)”, herausgegeben von: ICEIS; INSTICC Press, 2007, ISBN: 978-972-8865-90-0, S. 466 – 474.
Egyed A., P. Grünbacher, S. Biffl (2007): “Value-Based Requirements Traceability: Lessons Learned”; in: “RE’07: 15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference”, IEEE, New Delhi (2007), ISSN: 1090-705x; S. 266 – 274.
Heindl M., S. Biffl (2007): “A Framework to Balance Tracing Agility and Formalism”; in: “Proceeding of CEE-SET 2007”, Springer, Poznan (2007), Lecture Note on Computer Sciences, Poznan (2007), ISBN: 978-3-540-85278-0; S. 259 – 270.
Wahyudin D., M. Heindl, B. Eckhard, A. Schatten, S. Biffl (2007): “In-time role-specific notification as formal means to balance agile practices in global software development settings”; in: “Proceeding of CEE-SET 2007”, Springer Lecture Note on Computer Sciences, Poznan (2007), ISBN: 978-3-540-85278-0; S. 197 – 211.
Wahyudin D. , A. Schatten, S. Biffl, D. Winkler (2007): “Aspects of Software Quality Assurance in Open Source Software Projects: Two Case Studies from Apache Projects”; in: “33 rd Euromicro SEAA 2007”, IEEE, 07/germany (2007), ISSN: 1089-6503; S. 229 – 236.
Winkler D., B. Thurnher, S. Biffl (2007): “Early Software Product Improvement with Sequential Inspection Sessions: An Empirical Investigation of Inspector Capability and Learning Effects”; in: “33rd Euromicro SEAA”, IEEE, 07/Germany (2007), ISSN: 1089-6503; S. 245 – 254.

Babar M. Ali , Biffl S. (2006); “Eliciting Better Quality Architecture Evaluation Scenarios: A Controlled Experiment On Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up”, Empirical Software Engineering, 2006. 2006 International Symposium on; September 2006.
Heindl M., Biffl S., Egyed A. (2006); “The Impact of Trace Correctness on Requirements Tracing Cost-Benefit – An Evaluation Concept”, Empirical Software Engineering, 2006. 2006 International Symposium on 20 September 2006.
Winkler D., Varvaroi R., Goluch G., Biffl S. (2006); “An Empirical Study On Integrating Analytical Quality Assurance Into Pair Programming”, International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE), September 2006.
Heindl M., Reinisch F., Biffl S., Egyed A. (2006); “Value-Based Selection of Requirements Engineering Tool Support”, Software Engineering and Advanced Applications,2006, 32nd EUROMICRO Conference on 30 Aug. 2006.
Winkler D., Biffl S. (2006): “An Empirical Study on Design Quality Improvement from Best-Practice Inspection and Pair Programming”, 7th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (Profes), Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 12th-14th 2006.
Neubauer T., Weippl E., Biffl S. (2006); “Digital Signatures with Familiar Appearance for e-Government Documents: Authentic PDF”, Availability, Reliability and Security, 2006. ARES 2006. The First International Conference on 20-22 April 2006.
Neubauer T., Klemen M., Biffl S. (2006); “Secure Business Process Management: A Roadmap”, Availability, Reliability and Security, 2006. ARES 2006. The First International Conference on 20-22 April 2006.
Schatten A., K. Mustofa, S. Biffl, A. Tjoa, D. Wahyudin (2006): “Introducing “Health” Perspective in Open Source Web-Engineering Software Projects, Based on Project Data Analysis”; in: “Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Integration, Web-Applications and Services”, Austrian Computer Society, (2006).

Biffl S., Thurnher B., Goluch G., Winkler D., Aigner W., Miksch S. (2005); “An Empirical Investigation on the Visualization of Temporal Uncertainties in Software Engineering Project Planning”, Empirical Software Engineering, 2005. 2005 International Symposium on 17 November 2005, p.422-431.
Egyed A., Biffl S., Heindl M., Grünbacher P. (2005); “Determining the Cost-Quality Trade-Off for Automated Software Traceability”, Proc. of the 20th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Long Beach, California, 07.11.2005 – 11.11.2005, ISBN 1-58113-993-4;, p.422-431.
Biffl S., Winkler D., Höhn R., Wetzel H. (2005); “Software Process Improvement in Europe: Potential of the new V-Model XT and Research Issues”, EuroSPI 2005 Experience Sessions Proceeding, Budapest, Hungary, November 9-11, 2005. Editors: Miklos Biro, Richard Messnarz, John von Neumann Computer Society, ISBN: 963 8431 94 6; pp. 1.9-1.19.
Heindl M., Biffl S. (2005); “A case study on value-based requirements tracing”, Foundations of Software Engineering Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering Lisbon, Portugal, 2005, ISBN:1-59593-014-0 p.60-69.
Winkler D., Riedl B., Biffl S. (2005); “Improvement of Design Specification with Inspection and Testing”, Software Engineering and Advanced Applications,2005, 31st EUROMICRO Conference on 30 Aug. 2005, p. 222-231.
Aigner W., Miksch S., Thurnher B., Biffl S. (2005); “PlanningLines: Novel Glyphs for Representing Temporal Uncertainties and Their Evaluation”, Information Visualisation, 2005. Proceedings. Ninth International Conference on 06-08 July 2005, p.457-463.
Winkler D., Biffl S., Thurnher B.(2005); “Investigating the Impact of Active Guidance on Design Inspection”, Frank Bomarius, Seija Komi-Sirviö (Eds.): Product Focused Software Process Improvement, 6th International Conference, PROFES 2005, Oulu, Finland, June 13-15, 2005, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3547 Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-26200-8, p.458-473.
Auer M., Becker C., Rauber A., Biffl S. (2005); “Implicit Analogy-Based Cost Estimation Using Textual Use Case Similarities”, Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. of Intelligent Computing and Information Sciences (ICICIS 2005), Cairo, March 2005, ISBN: 977-237-172-3p.369-376.

Schatten, A.; Biffl, S. (2004); “Towards an Event-Driven Workplace for Knowledge Integration”, Proceedings. 30th IEEE Euromicro Conference, 2004, Sept 1-3, 2004.
Winkler, D.; Halling M., Biffl, S. (2004); “Investigating the Effect of Expert Ranking of Use Cases for Design Inspection”, Proceedings. 30th IEEE Euromicro Conference, 2004, Sept 1-3, 2004.
Auer M., Biffl S. (2004) “Increasing the Accuracy and Reliability of Analogy-Based Cost Estimation with Extensive Project Feature Dimension Weighting”, Proceedings of ACM/ IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Los Angeles, USA, August 2004.
Auer M., Graser B., Biffl S. (2004) “Visualizing Software Project Analogies to Support Cost Estimation”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference Enterprise Information Systems, Porto, Portugal, April 2004.
Biffl S., Heindl M., Auer M., Halling, M. (2004) “Tool Support for a Risk Management Process – an Empirical Study on Effectiveness and Efficiency”, Proceedings IASTED Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, Austria, February 16-19 2004.

Auer M., Graser B., Biffl S. (2003) “An Approach to Visualizing Empirical Software Project Portfolio Data Using Multidimensional Scaling”, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, October, 2003, p. 504-512.
Grünbacher, P.; Halling, M.; Biffl, S. (2003), “An empirical study on groupware support for software inspection meetings”, Proceedings. 18th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2003., 6-10 Oct. 2003, pp. 4-11 (ACM distinguished paper award).
Biffl, S.; Halling, M.; Köszegi, S. (2003) “Investigating the accuracy of defect estimation models for individuals and teams based on inspection data”; Proceedings. 2003 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, 2003. ISESE 2003., 30 Sept. – 1 Oct. 2003; pp. 232-244.
Auer, M.; Graser, B.; Biffl, S. (2003) “Survey on the fitness of commercial software metric tools for service in heterogeneous environments: common pitfalls”; Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium, 2003., Sept. 3-5, 2003; pp. 144-152.
Halling, M.; Biffl, S.; Grünbacher, P. (2003) “An experiment family to investigate the defect detection effect of tool-support for requirements inspection”, Proceedings. 9th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium, 2003., Sept. 3-5, 2003, pp. 278-285.
Schatten, A.; Biffl, S.; Tjoa A Min (2003); “Closing the gap: from nescience to knowledge management”, Proceedings. 29th IEEE Euromicro Conference, 2003, Sept 1-6, 2003, pp. 327-335.
Auer, M.; Tschurtschenthaler, T.; Biffl, S. (2003) “A flyweight UML modelling tool for software development in heterogeneous environments”, Proceedings. 29th IEEE Euromicro Conference, 2003. Sept 1-6, 2003, pp. 267-272.
Kitapci H., Boehm B., Grünbacher P., Halling M., Biffl S. (2003) “Formalizing Informal Stakeholder Requirements Inputs”, Proc. 13th Int. INCOSE Symposium, Arlington, Virginia, June 2003 (best paper award).
Grünbacher, P.; Halling, M.; Biffl, S.; Kitapci, H.; Boehm, B.W. (2003) “Repeatable quality assurance techniques for requirements negotiations”, Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2003. 6-9 Jan. 2003; pp. 23-31.

Halling M., Biffl S., and Grünbacher P. (2002) “A Groupware-Supported Inspection Process for Active Inspection Management”, Proc. of IEEE Euromicro 2002, Dortmund, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press.
Biffl S., Halling M. (2002) “Investigating the influence of inspector capability factors with four inspection techniques on inspection performance”, Proc. 8th IEEE Int. Software Metrics Symposium, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, Ottawa, June 2002.
Halling M., Biffl S. (2002) “Investigating the Influence of Software Inspection process Parameters on Inspection Meeting Performance”, Int. Conf. on Empirical Assessment of Software Engineering (EASE), Keele, April 2002.
Ciolkowski M., Shull F., Biffl S. (2002) “A Family of Inspection Experiments”, Int. Conf. on Empirical Assessment of Software Engineering (EASE), Keele, April 2002.

Halling M., Grünbacher P., Biffl S. (2001) “Tailoring a COTS Group Support System for Software Requirements Inspection”, Proc of the ACM/IEEE Conf. on Automated Software Engineering ’01, San Diego, CA, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, November 2001.
Biffl S., Halling M. (2001) “Investigating Reinspection Decision Accuracy regarding Product-Quality and Cost-Benefit Estimates”, Proc. of Compsac’01, Chicago, Ill, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, October 2001.
Biffl S., Halling M. (2001) “Investigating the Impact of Defect Content Estimation on Reinspection Decision Accuracy”, Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Software Quality, Pittsburgh, October 2001.
Biffl S., Grossmann W. (2001) “Evaluating the Accuracy of Objective Estimation Models Based on Inspection Data From Multiple Inspection Cycles”, Proc. of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, Toronto, Canada, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, May 2001.
Biffl S., Freimut B., Laitenberger O. (2001) “Investigating the Cost-Effectiveness of Reinspections in Software Development”, Proc. of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, Toronto, Canada, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, May 2001.
Freimut B., Laitenberger O., Biffl S. (2001) “Investigating the Impact of Reading Techniques on the Accuracy of Different Defect Content Estimation Techniques”, Proc. of IEEE Int. Software Metrics Symposium, London, April 2001.
Biffl S., Gutjahr W. (2001) “Influence of Team Size and Defect Detection Methods on Inspection Effectiveness”, Proc. of IEEE Int. Software Metrics Symposium, London, April 2001.

Biffl S. (2000) “Analysis of the Impact of Reading Technique and Inspector Capability on Individual Inspection Performance”, Proc. of APSEC 2000 Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, Singapore, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, December 2000.
Biffl S., Halling M. (2000) “Software Product Improvement with Inspection”, Proc. of Euromicro 2000 Track on Software Product and Process Improvement, Maastricht, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, Sept. 2000.

Workshop Papers, Posters and Technical Reports

Mordinyi, R. and Biffl, S. 2015. Versioning in Cyber-physical Production System Engineering — Best-Practice and Research Agenda. in Software Engineering for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (SEsCPS), 2015 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on , vol., no., pp.44-47, 17-17 May 2015
Biffl S., Kovalenko O., Lüder A., Schmidt N., Rosendahl R.: ‘Semantic Mapping Support for Mechatronic Objects in AutomationML’, In: Proceedings of the AutomationML User Conference, 13p., Blomberg, Germany, October 7-8, 2014.
Biffl S., Kovalenko O., Lüder A., Schmidt N., Rosendahl R.: ‘Semantic Mapping Support in AutomationML’, In: Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Work In Progress, IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4799-4845-1, pp.1-4, Barcelona, Spain, September 16-19, 2014.
Biffl S., Kalinowski M., Ekaputra F., Martins G.G., Winkler D.: ‘Towards Efficient Support for Theory Identification from Published Experimental Research Reports’, Technical Report No.: IFS-CDL-14-01, TU Vienna, January 2014, Online available at: http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/publication/IFS-CDL-14-01.pdf.
Biffl S., Kalinowski M., Ekaputra F.J., Neto A.A.., Conte T., Winkler D.: ‘Towards a Semantic Knowledge Base on Threats to Validity and Control Actions in Controlled Experiments’, Technical Report No.: IFS-CDL-14-04, TU Vienna, Extended Version of ESEM 2014, March 2014, Online available at: http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/publication/IFS-CDL-14-04.pdf.
Biffl S., Lüder A., Schmidt N., Winkler D.: ‘Early and Efficient Quality Assurance of Risky Technical Parameters in a Mechatronic Design Process’, Technical Report No.: IFS-CDL-14-28, TU Vienna, Extened Version of IECON 2014, May 2014, Online available at: http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/publication/IFS-CDL-14-28.pdf.
Ekaputra F.J., Sabou M., Serral E., Biffl. S: ‘Supporting Information Sharing for Reuse and Analysis of Scientific Research Publication Data ‘, In: Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Semantic Publishing (Sepublica), co-located with the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), CEUR, Volume 1155, pp.1-12, Anissaras, Greece, May 25th, 2014.
Grünwald A., Winkler D., Biffl S.: ‘The Semantic Model Editor: Efficient Data Modeling and Integration based on OWL Ontologies’, Technical Report No.: IFS-CDL-14-33, TU Vienna, Extended Version of Semantics 2014, June 2014, Online available at: http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/publication/IFS-CDL-14-33.pdf.
Kovalenko O., Serral E., Sabou M., Ekaputra F.J., Winkler D., Biffl S.: ‘Automating Cross-Disciplinary Defect Detection in Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Environments’, Technical Report No.: IFS-CDL-14-17, TU Vienna, Extended Version of EKAW 2014, May 2014, Online available at: http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/publication/IFS-CDL-14-17.pdf.
Musil J., Musil A., Biffl S.: ‘Stigmergic Information Systems: A Conceptual Framework for Architecting Social Web Applications’, In: Technical Report No.: IFS-CDL-14-25, TU Vienna, April 2014, Online available at: http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/publication/IFS-CDL-14-25.pdf.
Musil J., Musil A., Biffl S.: ‘Stigmergic Information Systems – Part 1: An Architecture Metamodel for Collective Intelligence Systems’, Technical Report No.: IFS-CDL-14-40, TU Vienna, August 2014, Online available at: http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/publication/IFS-CDL-14-40.pdf.
Winkler D., Ekaputra F.J., Serral E., Biffl S.: ‘Efficient Data Integration and Communication Issues in Distributed Engineering Projects and Project Consortia’, In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-Driven Business (I-KNOW), Poster Paper, ACM, 4p, Graz, Austria, September 16-19, 2014.
Winkler D. Biffl S.: ‘Focused Inspection to support product and process improvement in heterogeneous engineering environment’, Technical Report, IFS-CDL-14-32, TU Vienna, 2014.

Barth M., Biffl S., Drath R., Fay A., Winkler D.: ‘Bewertung der Offenheit von Engineering-Tools’, In: Open Automation, 4, VDE Verlag GmbH, pp.12-15, 2013.
Biffl S.: ‘Weg von den Software-Werkzeuginseln – Lücken beim parallelen Engineering industrieller Anlagen schließen’, In: ke NEXT, 6, verlag moderne industrie GmbH, pp.88-90, 2013.
Biffl S., Lüder A., Petzold T., Schmidt N., Steininger H.: ‘Anforderungen an Engineeringketten’, In: ETZ Elektrotechnik & Automation, 9, VDE Verlag GmbH, pp-18-22, 2013.
Biffl S., Musil J., Serral E., Winkler D. : ‘A Semantic Directory for Content and Partner Discovery in Empirical Software Engineering Research’, In: Proceedings of the Work in Progress Session, 39th Euromicro Conferences on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), SEA-SR-38, SEAA Publication, ISBN: 978-3-902457-387, pp.18-19, Santander, Spain, September 4-6, 2013.
Biffl S., Kalinowski M., Ekaputra F., Serral E., Winkler D.: ‘Building Empirical Software Engineering Bodies of Knowledge with Systematic Knowledge Engineering’, Technical Report No.: IFS-CDL-13-03, TU Vienna, Extended Version of SEKE 2014, October 2013, Online available at: http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/publication/IFS-CDL-13-03.pdf.
Grünwald A., Winkler D., Serral E., Biffl S.: ‘Semantic Technologies to Accelerate Model-Driven Development’, In: Proceedings of the Work in Progress Session, 33rd Euromicro Conferences on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA), SEAA Publication, p.276, Santander, Spain, September 4-6, 2013.
Grünwald A., Winkler D., Serral E., Biffl S.: ‘Semantic Technologies for more-efficient Model-Driven Development’, Technical Report No.: IFS-CDL-13-03, TU Vienna, Extended Version of Euromicro 2013, July 2013, Online available at: http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/publication/IFS-CDL-13-02.pdf.
Lüder A., Steininger H., Biffl S., Schmidt N., Petzold T.: ‘Quo vadis Softwarewerkzeuge – Studienergebnis zum Thema Entwicklungswerkzeuge’, In: SPS Magazin, 7, TeDo Verlag GmbH, pp.43-45, 2013.
Musil J., Musil A., Biffl S.: ‘Elements of software ecosystem early-stage design for collective intelligence systems’, In: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Ecosystem Architectures (WEA), ACM, ISBN: 978-1-4503-2314-7, pp.21-25, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 19, 2013.
Proenca D., Antunes G., Borbinha J., Caetano A., Biffl S., Winkler D., Becker C.: ‘Longevity as an Information Systems Design Concern’, In: Proceedings of the CAiSE’13 Forum at the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE), -, ISSN: 1613-0073, pp.73-80, Valencia, Spain, June 20, 2013.
Lüder A., Schmidt N., Rosendahl R., Biffl S., Steininger H.: ‘Entwicklung von Empfehlungen zur Entwicklungsprozessverbesserung im Bereich Programmiersysteme E3BP’, White Paper, Technical Report No.: IFS-CDL-13-05, TU Vienna, August 2013.

Biffl S., Moser T., Mordinyi R.: ‘Alle auf “einer” Spur”‘, In: Computer & Automation, 6, WEKA FACHMEDIEN GmbH, pp.41-44, 2012.
Dösinger S., Mordinyi R., Biffl S.: ‘Communicating Continuous Integration Servers for Increasing Effectiveness of Automated Testing’, In: Proceedings of 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), Tool Demo Paper, IEEE, ISBN: 978-1-4503-1204-2, pp.374-377, Essen, Germany, September 3-7, 2012.
Frühwirth C., Mordinyi R., Biffl S.: ‘Quality Needs Structure: Industrial Experiences in Systematically Defining Software Security Requirements’, In: Proceedings of the 4th Software Quality Days, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Software Quality. Process Automation in Software Development (94), Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-27212-7, pp.217-229, Vienna, Austria, January 17-19, 2012.
Sunindyo W., Moser T., Winkler D.: ‘Process Model Validation for Heterogeneous Engineering Environments’, In: Proceedings of the 4th Software Quality Days, Practical Track, SWQD, Vienna, Austria, January 17-19, 2012.

Sunindyo, W., Melik-Merkumians, M., Moser, T. and Biffl, S., (2011), Enforcing Safety Requirements for Industrial Automation System at Runtime – Position Paper, Proc. 2nd International Workshop on Requirements@Run.Time (RE@RunTime 2011), Trento, Italy, pp. 1-5.
Sunindyo, W., Moser, T., Winkler, D., Mordinyi, R. and Biffl, S., (2011), Workflow Validation Framework in Distributed Engineering Environments Proc. 3rd International Workshop on Information Systems in Distributed Environment (ISDE’11), Crete, Greece, pp. 1-10.

Biffl, S.; Mordinyi, R., and Moser, T. (2010); Automated Derivation of Configurations for the Integration of Software(+) Engineering Environments, Proc. 1st International Workshop on Automated Configuration and Tailoring of Applications (ACoTA 2010) Antwerp Belgium.
Dhungana, D., Groher, I., Schludermann, E. and Biffl, S., Software Ecosystems vs. Natural Ecosystems: Learning from the Ingenious Mind of Nature, Proc. Second Workshop on Software Ecosystems , Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010.
Frühwirth, C.; Biffl, S.; Tabatabai, M. , Winkler D. & Weippl E.; Addressing Misalignment Between Information Security Metrics and Business-Driven Security Objectives, Proc. International Workshop on Security Measurement and Metrics (MetriSec), Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, p. 7, 2010.
Mordinyi, R.; Moser, T.; Murth, M.; Kühn, E. & Biffl, S.; RDF Containers – A Framework for the Integration of Distributed and Heterogeneous Applications Proc. 3rd International Workshop on Ambient Data Integration , 2010.
Sunindyo, W.D., Moser, T., Winkler, D., Biffl, S., A Process Model Discovery Approach for Enabling Model Interoperability in Signal Engineering, Proc. 1st Workshop on Model Driven Interoperability (MDI2010), ISBN: 978-1-4503-0292-0, pp 15-21, Oslo, Norway, .05.10.2010.
Frühwirth2010a Frühwirth, C., Biffl, S., Schatten, A., Schrittwieser, S., Winkler, D. and Weippl, E., Research Challenges in the Security Design and Evaluation of an Engineering Service Bus Platform, Proc. 36th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) – Work in Progress Session , Lille, France, p. 2, 2010.
Frühwirth2010b Frühwirth, C.; Biffl, S.; Schatten, A. & Winkler, D.; Quantitative Software Security Measurement in an Engineering Service Bus Platform, Proc. 4th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2010) – Poster Sessions , ISBN: 978-1-4503-0039-1, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, 16.-17.09.2010, p. 1, 2010.
Kremmel, T., Kubalik, J. and Biffl, S., Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Software Project Portofolio Optimization, Proc. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Gecco 2010) – Poster Session, 2010.
Moser, T.; Biffl, S. & Winkler, D.; Process-Driven Feature Modeling for Variability Management of Project Environment Configurations, Proc. 11th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2010) – Short Paper Track , Short Paper Track, Limerick, Ireland, 21.-23.06.2010.
Musil, J., Schweda, A., Winkler, D. and Biffl, S., Synthesized Essence: What Game Jams Teach About Prototyping of New Software Products, Proc. 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), – Volume 2, New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Track, ISBN:978-1-60558-719-6, pp 183-186, Cape Town, South Africa, 01.-08.05.2010.
Pieber, A. and Biffl, S., Engineering Environment Integration for (Software+) Engineering Teams, Proc. Junior Scientist Conference – Poster, Vienna, p. 1, 2010.
Sunindyo, W. and Biffl, S., Bridging Semantic Heterogeneities in Open Source Software Development Projects with Semantic Web Technologies, Proc. Junior Scientist Conference 2010 – Poster, Vienna, pp. 285 – 286, 2010.
Sunindyo, W. D.; Biffl, S.; Frühwirth, C.; Mordinyi, R.; Moser, T.; Schatten, A.; Schrittwieser, S.; Weippl, E. & Winkler, D.; Defect Detection Using Event-Based Process Analysis in (Software+) Engineering Projects, Proc. 36th Euromicro Conference Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2010) – Work in Progress Session, Lille, France, 01.-03.09.2010, isbn: 978-3-902457-27-1, p. 2, 2010.
Sunindyo, W. D.; Biffl, S.; Mordinyi, R.; Moser, T.; Schatten, A.; Tabatabai, M.; Wahyudin, D.; Weippl, E. & Winkler, D.; An Event-Based Empirical Process Analysis Framework, Proc. 4th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2010) – Poster Sessions , ISBN: 978-1-4503-0039-1, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, 16.-17.09.2010, p. 1, 2010.
Winkler, D., Hametner, R., Östreicher, T., Biffl, S., A Framework for Automated Testing of Automation Systems, 15th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Work In Progress Session, Bilbao, Spain, 13.-16.09.2010.

Biffl S., R. Mordinyi, T Moser, D. Wahyudin (2008): “Ontology-supported quality assurance for component-based systems configuration”; in: “Proceedings of 6th international Workshop on Software Quality”, B. Wong (Hrg.); ACM, New York (2008), ISBN: 978-1-60558-023-4; S. 59 – 64.
Biffl S. (2008): “Value-Based Software Engineering: Overview and Introduction”; Conference on Object-Oriented Programming – Software meets Business, Munich, Germany; 24.01.2008.
Auer M. , S. Biffl (2008): “Fast and Flexible Libor Model Pricing: Two-Stage Monte Carlo and On-the-Fly Payoff Processing”; in: “Computational Finance and Its Applications III”, C.A. Brebbia, M. Constantino, M. Larran (Hrg.); herausgegeben von: Wessex Institute; Wessex Institute Press, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-84564-111-5, S. 1 – 11.
Grünbacher P. , S. Biffl, R Höhn, A. Tjoa (2008): “Stakeholder-Orientierung beim Einsatz von Vorgehensmodellen”; in Buchreihe “Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von o. Univ.-Prof.Dr. Gerhard Chroust”, Buchreihen-Herausgeber: C. Hoyer, P. Grünbacher, N. Seyff; Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft, 1080 Wien, Piaristengasse 19, 2006, ISBN: 3-85403-208-0, 141 S.
Heindl M., F Reinisch, S. Biffl (2007): “Requirements Management Infrastructures in Global Software Development – Towards Application Lifecycle Management with Role-based In-time Notification”; in: “International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE), Workshop on Tool-Supported Requirements Management in Distributed Projects (REMIDI)”, REMIDI, ICGSE, Munich.
Heindl M., S. Biffl (2007): “Value-Based Software Process”; VASPO project workshop “Value-Based Software Project Improvement”, TU Helsinki, Finland; 21.08.2007.
Wahyudin D. , M. Heindl, S. Biffl, A. Schatten, Ronald Berger (2007): “In-Time Project Status Notification for All Team Members in Global Software Development as Part of Their work environments”; in: “Proceeding of SOFPIT Workshop 2007”, SOFPIT/ICGSE, Munich (2007), S. 20 – 25.
Biffl S., R. Mordinyi, A. Schatten (2007): “A Model-Driven Architecture Approach Using Explicit Stakeholder Quality Requirement Models for Building Dependable Information Systems”; in: “Fifth International Workshop on Software Quality (WoSQ’07: ICSE Workshops 2007)”, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, USA (2007), ISBN: 0-7695-2959-3.
Heindl M., Biffl S. (2006); “Effective Risk Management with Tracing the Rationale of Software Requirements in Highly Distributed Projects”, Proc. of the Global Software Development Workshop at the Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, Shanghai, China, May 2006.
Winkler D., Biffl S., Ali Babar M. (2008); “An Empirical Study of Scenarios Gained and Lost in Architecture Evaluation Meetings”, Technische Universität Wien, Technical Report IFS-QSE-08/05 (IFS-QSE-08/05).
Heindl M., Biffl S. (2007); “An Initial Tracing Activity Model to Balance Tracing Agility and Formalism – Requirements Tracing Strategies for Change Impact Analysis and Re-Testing”, Technische Universität Wien, Technical Report IFS-QSE-07/05 (IFS-QSE-07/05).
Biffl S., Denger C., Elberzhager F., Winkler D. (2007); “Quality Assurance Tradeoff Analysis Method (QATAM) – An Empirical Quality Assurance Planning and Evaluation Framework”, Technische Universität Wien, Technical Report IFS-QSE-07/04 (IFS-QSE-07/04).
Biffl S., Winkler D. (2007); “Value-Based Empirical Research Plan Evaluation”, Technische Universität Wien, Technical Report IFS-QSE-07/03 (IFS-QSE-07/03).
Binder T., Winkler D., Biffl S. (2006); “Quo Vadis V-Modell – Qualitätssicherung und Qualitätsmanagement im V-Modell 97 und V-Modell XT”, Technische Universität Wien, Technical Report IFS-QSE-06/03 (IFS-QSE-06/03).
Egyed A., Biffl S., Heindl M., Grünbacher P. (2005); “A Value-Based Approach for Understanding Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs During Automated Software Traceability”, Proc. of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE 2005), Long Beach, California, 08.11.2005,ISBN 1-59593-243-7; p. 2 – 7.
Neubauer T., Klemen M., Biffl S. (2005); “Economics-Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER): Business process-based valuation of IT-security”, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes , Proceedings of the seventh international workshop on Economics-driven software engineering research EDSER ’05, Volume 30 Issue 4, May 2005.
Abe R., Beinhart M., Biffl S., Kühn E., Ly M., Thurnher B. (2004) “Need for Rigorous Methods and Tools in Collaborative Mobile Software Solutions – a Use Case Study on a ‘Travel Service Application'”, Poster Proceedings of 1st Int. Symp. on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods (ISoLA04), October/November 2004.
Biffl S., Winkler D., Thelin T., Höst M., Russo B., Succi G. (2004) “Investigating the Effect of V&V and Modern Construction Techniques on Improving Software Quality “, Poster Proceedings of ACM/ IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering, Los Angeles, USA, August 2004.
Klemen M., Biffl St (2004): “Economic Aspects and Needs in IT-Security Risk Management for SMEs”, Proc. of the 6th Int. Workshop on Economics Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER-6) at the Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004.
Halling M., Biffl S., Grünbacher P. (2004): “The Role of Valuation in Value-Based Software Engineering”, Proc. of the 6th Int. Workshop on Economics Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER-6) at the Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2004.
Biffl S., Halling M., Grünbacher P. (2003): “Economic Risk-Based Management in Software Engineering: The Hermes Initiative”, Proc. of the 5th Int. Workshop on Economics Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER-5) at the Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, Portland, Oregon, May 2003.
Freimut B., Punter T., Biffl S., Ciolkowski M. (2002) “Report on the state-of-the-art of Empirical Studies in Software Engineering”, Technical Report 007/E of the Visek project (www.visek.de) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, March 2002.
Rus I., Biffl S., Halling M. (2002) “Systematically Combining Process Simulation and Empirical Data in Support of Decision Analysis in Software Development” Proc. Int. Conf. On Software and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE02): Workshop on Software Engineering Decision Support (SEDECS); IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, Ottawa, July, 2002.
Port D., Halling M., Kazman R., Biffl S. (2002): “Strategic Quality Assurance Planning”, Proc. of the 4th Int. Workshop on Economics Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER-4) at the Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, Orlando, Florida, May 2002.
Biffl S., (2001) „Hierarchical Economic Planning of the Inspection Process“, Proc. of the 3rd Int. Workshop on Economics Driven Software Engineering Research (EDSER-3) at the Int. Conf. on Software Engineering, Toronto, Canada, May 2001.
Biffl S., Halling M. (2001) “A Value-Based Framework for the Cost-Benefit Evaluation of Software Inspection Processes”, Proc. of Workshop on Inspection in Sofware Engineering WISE’01 ( http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/wise), Paris, July 2001.
Halling M., Grünbacher P., Biffl S. (2001) “Groupware Support for Software Requirements Inspection”, Proc. of Workshop on Inspection in Sofware Engineering WISE’01 ( http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/wise), Paris, July 2001.