Claudia P. Ayala Martínez PhD in Informatics Technical University of Catalunya (UPC) Researcher and Lecturer Campus Nord - J. Girona 1-3 Omega Building 117 Barcelona, Spain - 08034 Phone: +34 93 4137890 Email: cayala@essi.upc.edu

Research

I belong to the GESSI research group.

 My main current research areas are: 

• Adoption and use of Open Source Software (OSS) –See more information here
• Construction of Taxonomies of Off-The-Shelf (OTS) products
• Selection and Implementation of OTS components
• Empirical Software Engineering
• Software Requirements and Quality
  

Post doctoral Fellow at the Software Engineering Group of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norwegian University of Science and Technology -NTNU-) lead by Professor Reidar Conradi.  September 2008- October 2009. Trondheim, Norway.

Publications

Teaching

• Undergraduate: Software Engineering 2 (Software Design) (ES2, taught at FIB-UPC)
• Master in Computing: Advances in Software Engineering (AES, taught at LSI-UPC)

I am involved in the following events:

•  24th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'12), as Proceedings Chair

Past Events:

• PC Co-Chair: 14th Congreso Iberoamericano en “Software Engineering” CIbSE 2011, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Doctoral Symposium Chair at CIbSE 2010, Cuenca, Ecuador.
• Program Committee of the Congreso Iberoamericano en “Software Engineering”  CIbSE 2010
• Program Committee of the 13th Workshop on Requirements Engineering WER 2010
• PC Co-Chair: 12th Workshop on Requirements Engineering WER 2009, Valparaiso, Chile.
• ERCIM Post Doctoral Fellow (October 2008 – September 2009) at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Department of Computer and Information Science.
• Students Volunteers Chair of the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference RE 2008
• Program Committee of the 11th Workshop on Requirements Engineering WER 2008
• Program Committee of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium 2007
• Program Committee of the 6to. Congreso sobre Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico CIINDET 08
• Program Committee of the 5to. Congreso sobre Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico CIINDET 07

Other Resources Related to My Research

PhD Thesis

Claudia P. Ayala Martínez: "Systematic Construction of Goal Oriented COTS Taxonomies". Doctoral Thesis. Technical University of Catalunya. March 2008. (European Doctor Mention). Advisor: Dr. Xavier Franch.

Master Thesis Projects (Co-advisor)

Aaslund, K., Larsen S.: “OTS-Wiki: A Web Community for Fostering Evaluation and Selection of Off-The-Shelf Software Components” Master Thesis. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Spring 2007. http://www.idi.ntnu.no/grupper/su/su-diploma-2007/dipl07-larsen-aaslund.pdf

Undergraduate Students Projects