Katharina Großer
Research Topics
In my research I'm particularly interested in
Requirements Engineering: Template-based Requirements Notation, Traceability, Reuse ...
Conceptual Modelling, Object-Role Modelling (ORM), and Ontologies
Model-based (Space) Systems Engineering
Standardization
... and related topics
If you are interested in BA or MA thesis topics in these areas, please contact me. Currently announced topics of RGSE can be found here.
CV
Katharina Großer is PhD candidate and member of the Institute for Software Technology (IST) within the Faculty for Computer Science at the University of Koblenz. Her PhD project on ontology supported requirements engineering is part of the NPI Programme of the European Space Agency (ESA), where she prior completed an internship. She graduated with a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Computational Visualistics from University of Koblenz-Landau, where her Master’s thesis was awarded the AFCEA price. She is alumnus of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst.
Short CV
since 2023 Member of RGSE, University of Koblenz
2017/2018 2x three-month guest researcher at European Space Agency (ESA),
Software and Systems Division (TEC-SW), European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC)2015-2022 Member of RGSE, University of Koblenz-Landau
2015 six-month Internship at European Space Agency (ESA),
Software and Systems Division (TEC-SW), European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC)2012-2015 Master Programme Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz-Landau
(M.Sc. with high distinction)2009-2012 Bachelor Programme Computational Visualistics, University of Koblenz-Landau (B.Sc.)
2009-2015 Student Worker naujokat-edv
2009 Bilingual German/French Abitur/Baccalaureat (Abi-Bac)
Bertha-von-Suttner Gymnasium Andernach
Grants & Awards
2023 Best Artifact (Co-Author) RE'23
2020 Scholarship "(Post-)Doc mit Kind" to finance a personal student assistance 4/20-12/20
2016-2022 PhD student in the NPI Programme of the European Space Agency (ESA)
2016 1st Place AFCEA-Studienpreis
2015 Nominated for FTI-Preis
(Fakultätentag Informatik)2009-2015 Scholarship at
Ev. Studienwerk Villigst
Reviewing & Memberships
Journal Reviewer
Software and Systems Modeling
(Best Reviewer Award 2023)Member/Reviewer "Vorauswahlausschuss (VWA) Bonn II" for scholarships of the
Ev. Studienwerk Villigst e.V.Member of ODRL Community Group
Member of Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI)
Service for Conferences
- SAC 2025, March 31-April 4 2025, Sicily, Italy, (Program Committee Member in DSTDS track)
- RE 2024, June 24-28 2024, Reykjavik, Iceland, (Program Committee Member in Artifacts-track)
- RE 2023, September 4-8 2023, Hannover, Germany (Program Committee Member in Artifacts-track)
- REFSQ 2022, March 21-24 2022, Birmingham, United Kingdom (Discussant)
- SEAA 2019, August 28-30 2019, Kallithea, Chalkidiki, Greece (Sub-reviewer)
- ICMT 2019, July 15 - 19 2019, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (Sub-reviewer)
- Sicherheit 2018, April 25-27 2018, Konstanz, Germany (Sub-reviewer)
Teaching
Tutorial Grundlagen der Softwaretechnik (GST) (Basics of Software Engineering) 2016-2024
Tutorial Grundlagen der Datenbanken (Basics of Database Systems) 2020-2023
Tutorial Web-Engineering 2017-2018
Tutorial Informatik für IM III (Basics of Software Engineering) 2017-2019
Tutorial Informatik für IM I (Basics of Programming and Modelling) 2015-2016
Research Lab "User Friendly Template-Based Requirements Editor" 2019
Seminar + Proseminar Software Engineering 2015-2024
(organization 2016-2017, regularly supervised 2-3 thesis per semester since 2015)
Publications
Preprints
- Katharina Großer, Marina Rukavitsyna, and Jan Jürjens. 2023. A Comparative Evaluation of Requirement Template Systems
- Hussein Hasso, Katharina Großer, Iliass Aymaz, Hanna Geppert, and Jan Jürjens. 2023. ILLOD Replication Package: An Open-Source Framework for Abbreviation-Expansion Pair Detection and Term Consolidation in Requirements
- Hussein Hasso, Katharina Großer, Iliass Aymaz, Hanna Geppert, and Jan Jürjens. 2023. Enhanced abbreviation–expansion pair detection for glossary term extraction
- Hussein Hasso, Katharina Großer, Iliass Aymaz, Hanna Geppert, and Jan Jürjens. 2022. Abbreviation-Expansion Pair Detection for Glossary Term Extraction
Supervised Theses & Research Labs
R. Thiruvengadam "Supporting the Specification of Fairness Requirements". Master's thesis, University of Koblenz, 2024
J. Märdian "Anforderungsklassifizierung im Kontext von Requirements Reuse." Bachelor's thesis, University of Koblenz, 2024
S. S. P. Gadiyaram "Efficient semantic sub-topic retrieval and evaluation from long text documents." Master's thesis, University of Koblenz, 2023
L. Schroll "Development of a graph-based glossary system." Bachelor's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2022
S. Wingender "Datenbasierte Analyse auf Diversität, Fairness und Inklusion am Beispiel von Einstellungsverfahren." Master's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2022
V. Hristova Vasileva "Configuration Management for Requirements." Master's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2022
P. Roos "Investigation of dependencies in layered traceability." Bachelor's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2022
J. Kranz "Automatische Generierung einer Anforderungsliste aus BPMN-Modellen." Bachelor's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2022
M. Rukavitsyna "Linguistic comparative evaluation of template-systems for requirements documentation." Master's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2021
I. Aymaz "A Tool for Automatic Extraction, Exploration and Clustering of Glossary Terms from Requirements Engineering Documents." Master's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2021
P. Weimer "Development of a Template-Based Requirement-Editor." Bachelor's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2021
M. Iaremenko "Eliciting textual security and privacy requirements from secBPMN models." Bachelor's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2020.
M. Merz, “Development of a Glossary system for Artifacts of the Requirements Engineering.” Bachelor's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2020.
Research lab "Template-based Requirements Editor" 2019
V. Hristova Vasileva, “Meta-Modell zur Darstellung der Beziehungsarten zwischen Anforderungen und Anforderungsdokumenten.” Bachelor's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2019.
C. Braun, “Vergleichende Bewertung von Template-Systemen für die Anforderungsdokumentation.” Bachelor's thesis,University of Koblenz-Landau, 2019.
S. Hauschild, “Quality Metrics for Requirements.” Bachelor's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2018.
A. Owen, “Mapping ORM to TGraph,” Master's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2017.
F. J. Caballero Cerezo, “Comparative evaluation of template-systems for requirements documentation.” Bachelor's thesis, University of Koblenz-Landau, 2016.
External Presentations
A Comparative Evaluation of Requirement Template Systems. Fachtagung Software Engineering (SE'24), Linz, Austria, February 27nd 2024
A Comparative Evaluation of Requirement Template Systems. 31th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'23), Hannover, Germany, September 7th 2023
Requirements document relations: A reuse perspective on traceability through standards. Fachtagung Software Engineering (SE'23), Paderborn, Germany, February 22nd 2023
Requirements document relations: A reuse perspective on traceability through standards. 25th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS'22), Montréal, Canada, Oct 28th 2022
Requirements document relations: A reuse perspective on traceability through standards. 30th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'22), Melbourne, Australia (virtual), Aug 19th 2022
Conceptualizing Requirements. Developing a Requirements Meta-Model for European Space with ORM.
Space System Ontology Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Jun 26th 2019T-REQS. Moving forward in Requirements Engineering. ADCSS PYThONsession, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Oct 17th 2018
SMART Specifications. On the Move to Ontology-Supported Requirements Engineering. (invited talk), ESA ACT Science Coffee, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, Oct 5th 2018
Investigating the use of ontology techniques as a support for on-board software requirements engineering. (invited talk), Koblenzer IT-Tagung, Koblenz, Germany, Sep 1st 2016
ODRL 2.0 Revisited. 11th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods (Virtual Goods) incorporating the 9th W3C ODRL Community Meeting, Koblenz, Germany, Sep 19th 2013
Projects
External Links
Research Topics
In my research I'm particularly interested in
Requirements Engineering: Template-based Requirements Notation, Traceability, Reuse ...
Conceptual Modelling, Object-Role Modelling (ORM), and Ontologies
Model-based (Space) Systems Engineering
Standardization
... and related topics
If you are interested in BA or MA thesis topics in these areas, please contact me. Currently announced topics of RGSE can be found here.
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56070 Koblenz