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. Yet, presently I'm on parental leave and cannot supervise any theses in 2025. 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.

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

• P. Roos "Mapping ORM to Neo4J". Master's thesis, University of Koblenz, 2025

• D. Schreiber "Entwicklung eines GUI-Programms zur dynamischen, vollkonfigurierbaren Aggregation astronomischer Kataloge". Bachelor's thesis, University of Koblenz, 2025

• 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 - Awarded 1st Place at Student Research Competition at Fachtagung Software Engineering 2025 (Paper)

• 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 2019

• T-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

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Projects

Template-based REquirements Quality improvement in Space engineering supported by an ontology-based requirements meta-model

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Nachverfolgbarkeit und Erklärbarkeit von Security in der Softwareentwicklung

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IH - evrsKI: Interdisciplinary hub for teaching skills in the development, handling and application of explainable, trustworthy, resilient and secure AI processes

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External Links

• ORCID

• SciPort RLP
• Google Scholar
• LinkedIn
• WeGlide