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Estonia
2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
33
Citations
5317
World Ranking
12586
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Estonia Leader Award
  • 2006 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Dietmar Pfahl is affiliated with the University of Tartu in Estonia and specializes in computer science with a strong focus on software engineering research. Their work spans multiple subfields including information systems, software, computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, and general health professions.

Pfahl's research topics cover areas such as:

  • Software Engineering Research
  • Software System Performance and Reliability
  • Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
  • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
  • Software Reliability and Analysis Research
  • Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Formal Methods in Verification

Recent significant publications by Pfahl or closely related works in their field include:

  • "Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research" (2020), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "What Makes Agile Software Development Agile?" (2021), published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • "Towards the statistical construction of hybrid development methods" (2020), published in the Journal of Software Evolution and Process
  • "Systematic courseware development using an integrated engineering style method" (2022), published in Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft)
  • "Safety Testing of Automated Driving Systems: A Literature Review" (2023), published in IEEE Access

Pfahl frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Alejandra Duque-Torres
  • Claus Klammer
  • Rudolf Ramler
  • Marco Kuhrmann
  • Kristiina Rahkema

They have published extensively in prominent venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Software Evolution and Process

Recognized by their peers, Pfahl has been awarded the ACM Senior Member status since 2006, indicating their established position within the computing research community.

Best Publications

  • Reporting Experiments in Software Engineering

    Andreas Jedlitschka;Marcus Ciolkowski;Dietmar Pfahl

  • Reporting guidelines for controlled experiments in software engineering

    A. Jedlitschka;D. Pfahl

  • How do scientists develop and use scientific software

    Jo Erskine Hannay;Carolyn MacLeod;Janice Singer;Hans Petter Langtangen

  • Naming the pain in requirements engineering

    D. Méndez Fernández;S. Wagner;M. Kalinowski;M. Felderer

  • Structure and evolution of package dependency networks

    Riivo Kikas;Georgios Gousios;Marlon Dumas;Dietmar Pfahl

  • Trade-off analysis for requirements selection

    Günther Ruhe;Armin Eberlein;Dietmar Pfahl

  • Using simulation to analyse the impact of software requirement volatility on project performance

    Dietmar Pfahl;Karl Lebsanft

  • Status Quo in Requirements Engineering: A Theory and a Global Family of Surveys

    Stefan Wagner;Daniel Méndez Fernández;Michael Felderer;Antonio Vetrò

  • Empirical software engineering issues : critical assessment and future directions. International workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, June 26-30, 2006 : revised papers

    H. Dieter Rombach;Victor R. Basili;Richard W. Selby

  • Reflections on 10 years of software process simulation modeling: a systematic review

    He Zhang;Barbara Kitchenham;Dietmar Pfahl

  • Quantitative WinWin: a new method for decision support in requirements negotiation

    Günther Ruhe;Armin Eberlein;Dietmar Pfahl

  • Using simulation for assessing the real impact of test-coverage on defect-coverage

    L.C. Briand;D. Pfahl

  • Evaluating the learning effectiveness of using simulations in software project management education: results from a twice replicated experiment

    Dietmar Pfahl;Oliver Laitenberger;Günther Ruhe;Jörg Dorsch

  • Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research

    Paul Ralph;Nauman bin Ali;Sebastian Baltes;Domenico Bianculli

  • A method for efficient measurement-based COTS assessment and selection method description and evaluation results

    M. Ochs;D. Pfahl;G. Chrobok-Diening;B. Nothhelfer-Kolb

  • Using dynamic and contextual features to predict issue lifetime in GitHub projects

    Riivo Kikas;Marlon Dumas;Dietmar Pfahl

  • Software process simulation modeling: an extended systematic review

    He Zhang;Barbara Kitchenham;Dietmar Pfahl

  • Are team personality and climate related to satisfaction and software quality? Aggregating results from a twice replicated experiment

    Silvia T. Acuna;Marta N. Gomez;Jo Erskine Hannay;Natalia Juristo

  • A CBT module with integrated simulation component for software project management education and training

    Dietmar Pfahl;Marco Klemm;Günther Ruhe

  • What Makes Agile Software Development Agile

    Marco Kuhrmann;Paolo Tell;Regina Hebig;Jil Ann Christin Klunder

  • What Do We Know about Scientific Software Development's Agile Practices?

    M. T. Sletholt;J. E. Hannay;D. Pfahl;H. P. Langtangen

  • Can we evaluate the quality of software engineering experiments

    Barbara Kitchenham;Dag I. K. Sjøberg;O. Pearl Brereton;David Budgen

  • Naming the Pain in Requirements Engineering: Contemporary Problems, Causes, and Effects in Practice

    D. Méndez Fernández;S. Wagner;M. Kalinowski;M. Felderer

Frequent Co-Authors

Guenther Ruhe
Guenther Ruhe University of Calgary
Michael Felderer
Michael Felderer University of Cologne
Mika V. Mäntylä
Mika V. Mäntylä University of Helsinki
Barbara Kitchenham
Barbara Kitchenham Keele University
Jürgen Münch
Jürgen Münch Reutlingen University
Andreas Birk
Andreas Birk Jacobs University
Markku Oivo
Markku Oivo University of Oulu
Natalia Juristo
Natalia Juristo Technical University of Madrid
Kai Petersen
Kai Petersen Blekinge Institute of Technology
Marlon Dumas
Marlon Dumas University of Tartu

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