Krzysztof Wnuk's phd thesis

Here the information regarding my phd thesis project can be found. The tentative title is :

"Visualizing, Analyzing and Managing the Scope of Software Releases in Large-Scale Requirements Engineering "

The structure of the thesis is as follows:

Introduction The introduction is based on the following papers (published at REFSQ 2008, REFSQ 2009 and REFSQ 2011 conference):

"Can We Beat the Complexity of Very Large-Scale Requirements Engineering?", In Proceedings of the 14th International Working conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ’08), Montpellier, France, June 16-17, 2008, LNCS 5025, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 123-128
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"Scaling up requirements engineering – exploring the challenges of increasing size and complexity in market-driven software development", Krzysztof Wnuk, Björn Regnell and Brian Berenbach In Proceedings of the 17th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ’11), Essen, Germany, March 28-30, Daniel Berry and Xavier Franch (Eds.), LNCS 6606, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 54-59
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"Architecting and Coordinating Thousands of Requirements – An Industrial Case Study", Krzysztof Wnuk, Björn Regnell and Claes Schrewelius In Proceedings of the 15th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ ’09), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 8-9 2009, Martin Glinz and Patrick Heymans (Eds.) LNCS 5512, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, pp. 118-123
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Papers in the thesis

Paper I: Krzysztof Wnuk, Björn Regnell and Lena Karlsson, "What Happened to Our Features? Visualization and Understanding of Scope Change Dynamics in a Large-Scale Industrial Setting," In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’ 09), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, August 31 - September 04, IEEE, 2009, pp.89-98
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Paper II: Krzysztof Wnuk, Björn Regnell and Martin Höst, "Replication of an experiment on linguistic tool support for consolidation of requirements from multiple sources", Empirical Software Engineering Journal (ESEJ), Springer, vol. 17, Jan. 2012, pp. 305-344
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Paper III: Krzysztof Wnuk, Tony Gorschek and Shuiab Zahda, "Obsolete Software Requirements", Under revision for Information and Software Technology Journal (IST)
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Paper IV: Elizabeth Bjarnason, Krzysztof Wnuk and Björn Regnell, "Are You Biting Off More Than You Can Chew? A Case Study on Causes and Effects of Overscoping in Large-Scale Software Engineering", in print for Information and Software Technology Journal (IST).
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This article is an extended version of the article presented at the 4th International Workshop on Software Product Management (IWSPM 2010) which received the best paper award.
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Paper V: Krzysztof Wnuk, Jaap Kabbedijk, Sjaak Brinkkemper and Björn Regnell, "What Decision Characteristics Influence Decision Making in Large-Scale Market-Driven Requirements Engineering?", To be submitted to the Software Quality Journal (SQJ)
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This article is an extended version of the article presented at the First International Workshop on Product Line Requirements Engineering and Quality (PLREQ'10)
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Paper VI: Krzysztof Wnuk, David Callele, Tony Gorschek, Even-André Karlsson and Björn Regnell, "Scope Tracking and Visualization in Large–Scale Projects", To be submitted to the Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) journal, IEEE