This page provides open access to recent and upcoming peer-reviewed publications arising from work members of the DCI are actively involved in. All articles below are openly available as preprints:
Kulmukhametov, A., Rauber, A. & Becker, C. Improving data quality in large-scale repositories through conflict resolution. Int J Digit Libr (2021). [doi]
Victoria Palacin, Matti Nelimarkka, Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar, and Christoph Becker. 2020. The Design of Pseudo-Participation. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020-Participation(s) Otherwise – Vol. 2 (PDC ’20: Vol. 2), June 15–20, 2020, Manizales, Colombia. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages. [preprint] [doi]
Christoph Becker, Ann Light, Chris Frauenberger, Dawn Walker, Victoria Palacin, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Rachel Charlotte Smith, Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar, and David Nemer. 2020. Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility: The Past, Present and Future Values of Participatory Design. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020- Participation(s) Otherwise – Vol. 2 (PDC ’20: Vol. 2), June 15-20, 2020, Manizales, Colombia. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. [doi] [preprint]
Kienzle, J., Mussbacher, G., Combemale, B., Bastin, L., Bencomo, N., Bruel, JM, Becker, C., Betz, S., Chitchyan, R., Cheng, B., Klingert, S., Paige, R., Penzenstadler, B., Seyff, N., Syriani, E., Venters, C. (2019) Towards Model-Driven Sustainability Evaluation. Communications of the ACM, March 2020, Vol. 63 No. 3, Pages 80-91 [preprint] [doi]
Duboc, L., McCord, C., Becker, C., Ahmed, I. (2019) Critical Requirements Engineering in Practice. IEEE Software vol. 37 (1), Jan-Feb 2020. [preprint] [doi]
Becker, C., Engels, G., Feenberg, A., Ferrario, M. A., & Fitzpatrick, G. (2019). Values in Computing (Dagstuhl Seminar 19291). Dagstuhl Reports, 9(7), 40–77. [doi]
Fabian Fagerholm, Christoph Becker, Alexandros Chatzigeorgiou, Stefanie Betz, Leticia Duboc, Birgit Penzenstadler, Rahul Mohanani, Colin Venters (2019). Temporal Discounting in Software Engineering: A Replication Study. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of ESEM, the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement 2019. [preprint]
Best Paper Award: Curtis McCord & Christoph Becker (2019). Sidewalk and Toronto: Critical Systems Heuristics and the Smart City. Proceedings of ICT4S, the 6th international conference on ICT for Sustainability, Lappeenranta, Finland, June 2019. Atlantis Press [preprint] [proceedings]
Christoph Becker, Fabian Fagerholm, Rahul Mohanani, Alexandros Chatzigeorgiou (2019). Temporal Discounting in Technical Debt: How do Software Practitioners Discount the Future? Proceedings of TechDebt, the Second International Conference on Technical Debt, Montreal, QC, Canada, May 2019. IEEE Press [preprint]
Christoph Becker, Emily Maemura & Nathan Moles (2019). The design and use of assessment frameworks in digital curation. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). [postprint] [doi]
Norbert Seyff, Stefanie Betz, Iris Groher, Melanie Stade, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Letícia Duboc, Birgit Penzenstadler, Colin Venters and Christoph Becker (2018). Crowd Focused Semi-Automated Requirements Engineering for Evolution Towards Sustainability. Proceedings of the 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’18), RE@Next! Track. IEEE Press [preprint] [doi]
Norbert Seyff, Stefanie Betz, Leticia Duboc, Colin C. Venters, Christoph Becker, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Birgit Penzenstadler, and Markus Noebauer (2018). Tailoring Requirements Negotiation to Sustainability. Proceedings of the 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’18), Industrial Innovation Track. IEEE Press [preprint] [doi]
Penzenstadler, B., Betz, B, Venters, C., Chitchyan, R., Seyff, N., Duboc, L., Becker, C. & Jari Porras (2018). Everything is Interrelated: Teaching Software Engineering for Sustainability. Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018) Software Engineering Education and Training track (SEET). IEEE Press [preprint] [doi]
Christoph Becker, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Stefanie Betz, Curtis McCord (2018). Trade-off Decisions Across Time in Technical Debt Management: A Systematic Literature Review. Proceedings of TechDebt ’18: International Conference on Technical Debt, co-located with the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018). IEEE Press [preprint] [doi]
Penzenstadler, B., Duboc, L., Venters, C., Seyff, N., Wnuk, K., Chitchyan, R., Easterbrook, S., & Becker, C. Software engineering for sustainability: Find the leverage points! IEEE Software volume 35 , Issue 4 (July/August 2018). [preprint] [doi]
Emily Maemura, Nicholas Worby, Ian Milligan, Christoph Becker (2018). If These Crawls Could Talk: Studying and Documenting Web Archives Provenance. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) Volume 69, Issue 10 (October 2018). [doi] [preprint]
W. Kaye Lamb Prize (info): Becker, C. Metaphors We Work By: Reframing Digital Objects, Significant Properties and the Design of Digital Preservation Systems. Archivaria 85 (Spring 2018). [Open Access copy] [Archivaria]
Venters, C., Capilla, R., Betz, S., Penzenstadler, B., Crick, T., Crouch, S., Nakagawa, E., Becker, C. & Carrillo, C (2017). Software Sustainability: Research and Practice from a Software Architecture Viewpoint. Journal of Systems and Software 138, April 2018, p. 174-188. [doi] [preprint]
Kresimir Duretec, Christoph Becker (2017). Format Technology Lifecycle Analysis. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST), 68(10), 2484-2500. [preprint] [doi] [interactive results]
Kresimir Duretec, Andreas Rauber, Christoph Becker (2017). A text extraction software benchmark based on a synthesized dataset. Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL). Toronto, ON, Canada. IEEE. [doi] [preprint]
Alice Allen, Cecilia Aragon, Christoph Becker, Jeffrey Carver, Andrei Chiş, Benoit Combemale, Mike Croucher, Kevin Crowston, Daniel Garijo, Ashish Gehani, Carole Goble, Robert Haines, Robert Hirschfeld, James Howison, Kathryn Huff, Caroline Jay, Daniel S. Katz, Claude Kirchner, Katie Kuksenok, Ralf Lämmel, Oscar Nierstrasz, Matt Turk, van Nieuwpoort, Rob, Matthew Vaughn & Jurgen Vinju (2017). Engineering Academic Software. Dagstuhl Manifestos Volume 6, Issue 1. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics, Wadern, Germany. http://dx.doi.org/10.4230/DagMan.6.1.1
Christoph Becker, Dawn Walker, Curtis McCord (2017). Intertemporal Choice: Decision Making and Time in Software Engineering. In: Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE). Workshop at International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Buenos Aires, May. IEEE. [preprint] [doi] [ACM]
Colin Venters, Norbert Seyff, Christoph Becker, Stefanie Betz, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Letícia Duboc, Dan McIntyre and Birgit Penzenstadler. Characterising Sustainability Requirements: A New Species, Red Herring, or Just an Odd Fish? In: ICSE’17: 39th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2017, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [preprint]
Emily Maemura, Nathan Moles, Christoph Becker (2016). Organizational Assessment Frameworks for Digital Preservation: A literature review and mapping. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(7), 1619–1637. [preprint] [DOI]
Christoph Becker, Kresimir Duretec, Andreas Rauber. The Challenge of Test Data Quality in Data Processing. ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ) volume 8 issue 2, January 2017 [preprint] [DOI]
Emily Maemura, Christoph Becker, Ian Milligan. Understanding Computational Web Archives Research Methods Using Research Objects. In the Computational Archival Science Workshop at IEEE Big Data ’16, Washington, DC, December 2016. [preprint]
Dawn Walker, Christoph Becker (2016). Sustainability Design: Lessons from Designing A ‘Green Map’. In: 4th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S), Amsterdam, August 2016. [DOI]
Ruzanna Chitchyan, Christoph Becker, Stefani Betz, Leticia Duboc, Birgit Penzenstadler, Norbert Seyff and Colin Venters (2016) Sustainability Design in Requirements Engineering: State of Practice. In: ICSE’16: 38th International Conference on Software Engineering, 14th – 22nd May 2016, Austin, Texas, USA. [link] [preprint]
Emily Maemura, Dylanne Dearborn, Leanne Trimble, Matthew Gertler, Christoph Becker. Identifying RDM drivers, gaps and opportunities: A baseline assessment. 11th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC), Amsterdam, February 2016. [poster]
Christoph Becker, Krešimir Đuretec, Artur Kulmukhametov, Andreas Rauber. The Benchmarking Forum at IPRES 2015. DLib Magazine Volume 22, Issue 1 / 2, January 2016. [link]
Birgit Penzenstadler, Ankita Rauturi, Christoph Becker, Juliet Norton, Bill Tomlinson, Six Silberman, and Debra Richardson. Bridging communities: ICT4Sustainability @iConference 2015. Interactions, Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 64-67, January 2016. [link]
Christoph Becker, Stefanie Betz, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Leticia Duboc, Steve M. Easterbrook, Birgit Penzenstadler, Norbert Seyff, and Colin C. Venters. Requirements: The Key to Sustainability. IEEE Software Special Issue on the Future of Software Engineering, Volume 33, Issue 1, pages 56-65, January 2016. [preprint][link]
Emily Maemura, Nathan Moles, Christoph Becker. A Survey of Organizational Assessment Frameworks in Digital Preservation. In: International Conference on Digital Preservation (IPRES 2015), November 2015, Chapel Hill. [pdf] [slides]
Kresimir Duretec, Artur Kulmukhametov, Andreas Rauber, Christoph Becker. Benchmarks for Digital Preservation tools. In: International Conference on Digital Preservation (IPRES 2015), November 2015, Chapel Hill. [pdf]
Colin Venters, Christoph Becker, Stefanie Betz, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Letícia Duboc, Steve Easterbrook, Birgit Penzenstadler, Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas and Norbert Seyff. The First Rule of Software Sustainability: Do not talk about Software Sustainability? Computational Science & Engineering Software Sustainability and Productivity Challenges (CSESSP), Washington DC, USA, October 15-16, 2015
Birgit Penzenstadler, Colin Venters, Christoph Becker, Stefanie Betz, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Letícia Duboc, Steve Easterbrook, Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas and Norbert Seyff. Manifesting the Ghost of the Future: Sustainability, 3rd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE’3), Boulder, CO, USA, September 28-29, 2015.
Stefanie Betz, Christoph Becker, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Leticia Duboc, Steve Easterbrook, Birgit Penzenstadler, Norbert Seyff, Colin Venters. Sustainability Debt: A Metaphor to Support Sustainability Design Decisions. 4th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SUSY 2015) at the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE’2015). August 2015, Ottawa. [pdf] [proceedings]
Christoph Becker, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Leticia Duboc, Steve Easterbrook, Birgit Penzenstadler, Norbert Seyff, Colin Venters. Sustainability Design and Software: The Karlskrona manifesto. In: The 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015), track Software Engineering in Society (SEIS). [preprint] [ACM]
Birgit Penzenstadler, Debra Richardson, Bill Tomlinson, Kenneth Fleischmann, Christoph Becker, Lisa Nathan, Eli Blevis, Six Silberman, Beth Karlin, Juliet Norton, Ankita Raturi. ICT for Sustainability–Current and future research directions. Workshop. iConference 2015 Proceedings.
Christoph Becker, Emily Maemura, Kresimir Duretec, Artur Kulmukhametov, Andreas Rauber, Hannes Kulovits, Ricardo Vieira, Elsa Cardoso, Jose Borbinha. BenchmarkDP: Evidence for Digital Preservation
At the 10th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC2015), London, February 2015.
Highly Commended Award: Christoph Becker, Luis Faria, Kresimir Duretec (2015). Scalable decision support for digital preservation: an assessment, OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, Vol. 31 Iss: 1, pp.11 – 34 [preprint]
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/OCLC-06-2014-0026
Christoph Becker, Ruzanna Chitchyan, Leticia Duboc, Steve Easterbrook, Martin Mahaux, Birgit Penzenstadler, Guillermo Rodriguez-Navas, Camille Salinesi, Norbert Seyff, Colin Venters, Coral Calero, Sedef Akinli Kocak, Stefanie Betz. The Karlskrona manifesto for sustainability design. arXiv:1410.6968 [cs.SE], DOI: 10.13140/2.1.2195.4565
Highly Commended Award: Christoph Becker, Luis Faria and Kresimir Duretec. Scalable Decision Support for Digital Preservation. OCLC Systems & Services: International digital library perspectives, Vol. 30 Iss: 4, pp.249 – 284, Emerald Publishing, 2014. [link] [preprint]
Christoph Becker. Sustainability and longevity: Two sides of the same quality?. In the Third International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy) at the 22nd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE2014). CEUR-WS vol. 1216, http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1216/
BEST DEMO award: Kresimir Duretec, Michael Kraxner, Artur Kulmukhametov, Markus Plangg, Christoph Becker and Luis Faria. The SCAPE preservation lifecycle. In: Digital Libraries 2014. London, September 2014. [pdf]
Artur Kulmukhametov and Christoph Becker. Content Profiling for Preservation: Improving scale, depth and quality. In: ICADL 2014. Chiang Mai, November 2014. [link]
Ricardo Vieira, Elsa Cardoso and Christoph Becker. A traceable maturity assessment method based on Enterprise Architecture modelling. In the Enterprise Model Analysis Workshop, co-located with EDOC 2014.