Alessio Ferrari

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2008-2024
Publications (10 Years): 110

Top Venues

CoRR

REFSQ

Requir. Eng.

Publications

Sallam Abualhaija, Chetan Arora, Davide Dell'Anna, Alessio Ferrari, Sepideh Ghanavati
Preface: 7th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE'24). REFSQ Workshops (2024)
Birgit Penzenstadler, Alessio Ferrari
Editorial for the REFSQ'23 special issue. Requir. Eng. 29 (1) (2024)
Chiara Mannari, Elisa Anichini, Manlio Bacco, Alessio Ferrari, Tommaso Turchi, Alessio Malizia
ModeLLer - Enabling End-Users to Model Systems: a Case Study in Digital Agriculture. CoPDA@AVI (2024)
Alessio Ferrari, Thaide Huichapa, Paola Spoletini, Nicole Novielli, Davide Fucci, Daniela Girardi
Using Voice and Biofeedback to Predict User Engagement during Product Feedback Interviews. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 33 (4) (2024)
Paola Spoletini, Alessio Ferrari
The Return of Formal Requirements Engineering in the Era of Large Language Models. REFSQ (2024)
Sallam Abualhaija, Fatma Basak Aydemir, Fabiano Dalpiaz, Davide Dell'Anna, Alessio Ferrari, Xavier Franch, Davide Fucci
Replication in Requirements Engineering: The NLP for RE Case. ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol. 33 (6) (2024)
Giovanna Broccia, Maurice H. ter Beek, Alberto Lluch-Lafuente, Paola Spoletini, Alessio Ferrari
Assessing the Understandability and Acceptance of Attack-Defense Trees for Modelling Security Requirements. CoRR (2024)
Alessio Ferrari, Sallam Abualhaija, Chetan Arora
Model Generation from Requirements with LLMs: an Exploratory Study. CoRR (2024)
Giovanna Broccia, Maurice H. ter Beek, Alberto Lluch-Lafuente, Paola Spoletini, Alessio Ferrari
Assessing the Understandability and Acceptance of Attack-Defense Trees for Modelling Security Requirements. REFSQ (2024)
Alessio Ferrari, Fabio Lepore, Livia Ortolani, Gianluca Brunori
Eliciting the Double-edged Impact of Digitalisation: a Case Study in Rural Areas. RE (2023)
Giovanna Broccia, Alessio Ferrari, Maurice H. ter Beek, Walter Cazzola, Luca Favalli, Francesco Bertolotti
Evaluating a Language Workbench: from Working Memory Capacity to Comprehension to Acceptance. ICPC (2023)
Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini
Strategies, Benefits and Challenges of App Store-inspired Requirements Elicitation. CoRR (2023)
Sallam Abualhaija, Fatma Basak Aydemir, Fabiano Dalpiaz, Davide Dell'Anna, Alessio Ferrari, Xavier Franch, Davide Fucci
Replication and Verifiability in Requirements Engineering: the NLP for RE Case. CoRR (2023)
Alessio Ferrari, Fabio Lepore, Livia Ortolani, Gianluca Brunori
Eliciting the Double-edged Impact of Digitalisation: a Case Study in Rural Areas. CoRR (2023)
Muhammad Abbas, Alessio Ferrari, Anas Shatnawi, Eduard Enoiu, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Daniel Sundmark
On the relationship between similar requirements and similar software. Requir. Eng. 28 (1) (2023)
Alessio Ferrari
Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and Society: Blue Skies, Black Holes, and the Job of Requirements Engineers (Keynote). REW (2023)
Waad Alhoshan, Alessio Ferrari, Liping Zhao
Zero-Shot Learning for Requirements Classification: An Exploratory Study. CoRR (2023)
Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini
Strategies, Benefits and Challenges of App Store-inspired Requirements Elicitation. ICSE (2023)
Alessio Ferrari, Maurice H. ter Beek
Formal Methods in Railways: A Systematic Mapping Study. ACM Comput. Surv. 55 (4) (2023)
Davide Basile, Franco Mazzanti, Alessio Ferrari
Experimenting with Formal Verification and Model-Based Development in Railways: The Case of UMC and Sparx Enterprise Architect. FMICS (2023)
Chiara Mannari, Elisa Anichini, Manlio Bacco, Alessio Ferrari, Tommaso Turchi, Alessio Malizia
ModeLLer - A Prototype to Support Requirements Elicitation in Co-Design Environments. RE (2023)
Waad Alhoshan, Alessio Ferrari, Liping Zhao
Zero-shot learning for requirements classification: An exploratory study. Inf. Softw. Technol. 159 (2023)
Sarmad Bashir, Muhammad Abbas, Alessio Ferrari, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Pernilla Lindberg
Requirements Classification for Smart Allocation: A Case Study in the Railway Industry. RE (2023)
Yehia Elrakaiby, Alexander Borgida, Alessio Ferrari, John Mylopoulos
CaRE: a refinement calculus for requirements engineering based on argumentation theory. Softw. Syst. Model. 21 (6) (2022)
Alessio Ferrari, Franco Mazzanti, Davide Basile, Maurice H. ter Beek
Systematic Evaluation and Usability Analysis of Formal Methods Tools for Railway Signaling System Design. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 48 (11) (2022)
Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini, Sourav Debnath
How Do Requirements Evolve During Elicitation? An Empirical Study Combining Interviews and App Store Analysis. CoRR (2022)
Alessio Ferrari, Hans-Martin Heyn, Mehrdad Sabetzadeh
AIRE 2022: 9th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Requirements Engineering. RE Workshops (2022)
Alessio Ferrari, Manlio Bacco
Rethinking Requirements Engineering for Sustainability. ERCIM News 2022 (131) (2022)
Davide Basile, Maurice H. ter Beek, Alessio Ferrari, Axel Legay
Exploring the ERTMS/ETCS full moving block specification: an experience with formal methods. Int. J. Softw. Tools Technol. Transf. 24 (3) (2022)
Maurice H. ter Beek, Alessio Ferrari
Empirical Formal Methods: Guidelines for Performing Empirical Studies on Formal Methods. CoRR (2022)
Alessio Ferrari, Manlio Bacco, Kirsten Gaber, Andreas Jedlitschka, Steffen Hess, Jouni Kaipainen, Panagiota Koltsida, Eleni Toli, Gianluca Brunori
Drivers, barriers and impacts of digitalisation in rural areas from the viewpoint of experts. Inf. Softw. Technol. 145 (2022)
Muhammad Abbas, Alessio Ferrari, Anas Shatnawi, Eduard Enoiu, Mehrdad Saadatmand, Daniel Sundmark
Correction to: On the relationship between similar requirements and similar software. Requir. Eng. 27 (3) (2022)
Davide Basile, Maurice H. ter Beek, Giovanna Broccia, Alessio Ferrari
Empirical Software Engineering and Formal Methods for IoT Systems. ERCIM News 2022 (131) (2022)
Monika Seisenberger, Maurice H. ter Beek, Xiuyi Fan, Alessio Ferrari, Anne E. Haxthausen, Phillip James, Andrew Lawrence, Bas Luttik, Jaco van de Pol, Simon Wimmer
Safe and Secure Future AI-Driven Railway Technologies: Challenges for Formal Methods in Railway. ISoLA (4) (2022)
Liping Zhao, Waad Alhoshan, Alessio Ferrari, Keletso J. Letsholo
Classification of Natural Language Processing Techniques for Requirements Engineering. CoRR (2022)
Waad Alhoshan, Liping Zhao, Alessio Ferrari, Keletso J. Letsholo
A Zero-Shot Learning Approach to Classifying Requirements: A Preliminary Study. REFSQ (2022)
Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini, Sourav Debnath
How do requirements evolve during elicitation? An empirical study combining interviews and app store analysis. Requir. Eng. 27 (4) (2022)
Himaja Cherukuri, Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini
Towards Explainable Formal Methods: From LTL to Natural Language with Neural Machine Translation. REFSQ (2022)
Jéssyka Vilela, Alessio Ferrari
SaPeer Approach for Training Requirements Analysts: An Application Tailored to a Low-resource Context. REFSQ (2021)
Muhammad Abbas, Alessio Ferrari, Anas Shatnawi, Eduard Paul Enoiu, Mehrdad Saadatmand
Is Requirements Similarity a Good Proxy for Software Similarity? An Empirical Investigation in Industry. REFSQ (2021)
Alessio Ferrari, Maurice H. ter Beek
Formal Methods in Railways: a Systematic Mapping Study. CoRR (2021)
Alessio Ferrari, Nazim H. Madhavji, Liliana Pasquale
Requirements engineering: Foundation for software quality (REFSQ2020). Inf. Softw. Technol. 137 (2021)
Sallam Abualhaija, Fatma Basak Aydemir, Alessio Ferrari, Jin Guo
Preface: 4th Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering (NLP4RE 2021). REFSQ Workshops (2021)
Muneera Bano, Chetan Arora, Didar Zowghi, Alessio Ferrari
The Rise and Fall of COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Apps: when NFRs Collide with Pandemic. RE (2021)
Alessio Ferrari, Liping Zhao, Waad Alhoshan
NLP for Requirements Engineering: Tasks, Techniques, Tools, and Technologies. ICSE (Companion Volume) (2021)
Alessio Ferrari, Thaide Huichapa, Paola Spoletini, Nicole Novielli, Davide Fucci, Daniela Girardi
Using Voice and Biofeedback to Predict User Engagement during Requirements Interviews. CoRR (2021)
Alessio Ferrari, Manlio Bacco, Kirsten Moore, Andreas Jedlitschka, Steffen Hess, Jouni Kaipainen, Panagiota Koltsida, Eleni Toli, Gianluca Brunori
Rethinking Sustainability Requirements: Drivers, Barriers and Impacts of Digitalisation from the Viewpoint of Experts. CoRR (2021)
Sourav Debnath, Paola Spoletini, Alessio Ferrari
From Ideas to Expressed Needs: an Empirical Study on the Evolution of Requirements during Elicitation. RE (2021)
Liping Zhao, Waad Alhoshan, Alessio Ferrari, Keletso J. Letsholo, Muideen A. Ajagbe, Erol-Valeriu Chioasca, Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro
Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study. ACM Comput. Surv. 54 (3) (2021)
Alessio Ferrari, Franco Mazzanti, Davide Basile, Maurice H. ter Beek
Systematic Evaluation and Usability Analysis of Formal Tools for Railway System Design. CoRR (2021)
Davide Basile, Maurice H. ter Beek, Alessandro Fantechi, Alessio Ferrari, Stefania Gnesi, Laura Masullo, Franco Mazzanti, Andrea Piattino, Daniele Trentini
Designing a Demonstrator of Formal Methods for Railways Infrastructure Managers. ISoLA (3) (2020)
Muneera Bano, Didar Zowghi, Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini
Inspectors Academy : Pedagogical Design for Requirements Inspection Training. RE (2020)
Manlio Bacco, Gianluca Brunori, Felice Dell'Orletta, Alessio Ferrari
Using NLP to Support Terminology Extraction and Domain Scoping: Report on the H2020 DESIRA Project. REFSQ Workshops (2020)
Nelly Bencomo, Alessio Ferrari, Fatma Basak Aydemir, Mona Rahimi
Message from the Organizers. AIRE@RE (2020)
Daniela Girardi, Alessio Ferrari, Nicole Novielli, Paola Spoletini, Davide Fucci, Thaide Huichapa
The Way it Makes you Feel Predicting Users' Engagement during Interviews with Biofeedback and Supervised Learning. RE (2020)
Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini, Muneera Bano, Didar Zowghi
SaPeer and ReverseSaPeer: teaching requirements elicitation interviews with role-playing and role reversal. Requir. Eng. 25 (4) (2020)
Liping Zhao, Waad Alhoshan, Alessio Ferrari, Keletso J. Letsholo, Muideen A. Ajagbe, Erol-Valeriu Chioasca, Riza Theresa Batista-Navarro
Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Requirements Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study. CoRR (2020)
Manlio Bacco, Gianluca Brunori, Alessio Ferrari, Panagiota Koltsida, Eleni Toli
IoT as a Digital Game Changer in Rural Areas: the DESIRA Conceptual Approach. GIoTS (2020)
Alessio Ferrari, Franco Mazzanti, Davide Basile, Maurice H. ter Beek, Alessandro Fantechi
Comparing formal tools for system design: a judgment study. ICSE (2020)
Yehia Elrakaiby, Alexander Borgida, Alessio Ferrari, John Mylopoulos
A Refinement Calculus for Requirements Engineering Based on Argumentation Theory. ER (2020)
Alessio Ferrari, Andrea Esuli
An NLP approach for cross-domain ambiguity detection in requirements engineering. Autom. Softw. Eng. 26 (3) (2019)
Maurice H. ter Beek, Arne Borälv, Alessandro Fantechi, Alessio Ferrari, Stefania Gnesi, Christer Löfving, Franco Mazzanti
Adopting Formal Methods in an Industrial Setting: The Railways Case. FM (2019)
Fabiano Dalpiaz, Alessio Ferrari, Xavier Franch, Sarah Gregory, Frank Houdek, Cristina Palomares
Requirements Philology (keynote). REFSQ Workshops (2019)
Alessio Ferrari, Giorgio Oronzo Spagnolo, Antonella Fiscella, Guido Parente
QuOD: An NLP Tool to Improve the Quality of Business Process Descriptions. From Software Engineering to Formal Methods and Tools, and Back (2019)
Alexander Dekhtyar, Jane Huffman Hayes, Irit Hadar, Erin Combs, Alessio Ferrari, Sarah Gregory, Jennifer Horkoff, Meira Levy, Maleknaz Nayebi, Barbara Paech, Jared Payne, Matt Primrose, Paola Spoletini, Shell Clarke, Chuck Brophy, Daniel Amyot, Walid Maalej, Guenther Ruhe, Jane Cleland-Huang, Didar Zowghi
Requirements Engineering (RE) for Social Good: RE Cares [Requirements]. IEEE Softw. 36 (1) (2019)
Muneera Bano, Didar Zowghi, Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini, Beatrice Donati
Teaching requirements elicitation interviews: an empirical study of learning from mistakes. Requir. Eng. 24 (3) (2019)
Alessio Ferrari, Maurice H. ter Beek, Franco Mazzanti, Davide Basile, Alessandro Fantechi, Stefania Gnesi, Andrea Piattino, Daniele Trentini
Survey on Formal Methods and Tools in Railways: The ASTRail Approach. RSSRail (2019)
Davide Basile, Maurice H. ter Beek, Alessio Ferrari, Axel Legay
Modelling and Analysing ERTMS L3 Moving Block Railway Signalling with Simulink and Uppaal SMC. FMICS (2019)
Vincenzo Gervasi, Alessio Ferrari, Didar Zowghi, Paola Spoletini
Ambiguity in Requirements Engineering: Towards a Unifying Framework. From Software Engineering to Formal Methods and Tools, and Back (2019)
Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini, Muneera Bano, Didar Zowghi
Learning Requirements Elicitation Interviews with Role-Playing, Self-Assessment and Peer-Review. RE (2019)
Alessandro Fantechi, Alessio Ferrari, Stefania Gnesi, Laura Semini
Hacking an Ambiguity Detection Tool to Extract Variation Points: an Experience Report. VaMoS (2018)
Davide Basile, Maurice H. ter Beek, Alessandro Fantechi, Stefania Gnesi, Franco Mazzanti, Andrea Piattino, Daniele Trentini, Alessio Ferrari
On the Industrial Uptake of Formal Methods in the Railway Domain - A Survey with Stakeholders. IFM (2018)
Alessandro Fantechi, Alessio Ferrari, Stefania Gnesi, Laura Semini
Requirement Engineering of Software Product Lines: Extracting Variability Using NLP. RE (2018)
Alessio Ferrari, Andrea Esuli, Stefania Gnesi
Identification of Cross-Domain Ambiguity with Language Models. AIRE@RE (2018)
Alessio Ferrari, Hans Friedrich Witschel, Giorgio Oronzo Spagnolo, Stefania Gnesi
Improving the quality of business process descriptions of public administrations: Resources and research challenges. Bus. Process. Manag. J. 24 (1) (2018)
Guglielmo De Angelis, Alessio Ferrari, Stefania Gnesi, Andrea Polini
Requirements elicitation and refinement in collaborative research projects. J. Softw. Evol. Process. 30 (12) (2018)
Flavio Corradini, Alessio Ferrari, Fabrizio Fornari, Stefania Gnesi, Andrea Polini, Barbara Re, Giorgio Oronzo Spagnolo
A Guidelines framework for understandable BPMN models. Data Knowl. Eng. 113 (2018)
Muneera Bano, Didar Zowghi, Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini, Beatrice Donati
Learning from Mistakes: An Empirical Study of Elicitation Interviews Performed by Novices. RE (2018)
Franco Mazzanti, Alessio Ferrari, Giorgio Oronzo Spagnolo
Towards formal methods diversity in railways: an experience report with seven frameworks. Int. J. Softw. Tools Technol. Transf. 20 (3) (2018)
Stefania Gnesi, Alessio Ferrari
Research on NLP for RE at CNR-ISTI: a Report. REFSQ Workshops (2018)
Alessio Ferrari
Natural language requirements processing: from research to practice. ICSE (Companion Volume) (2018)
Fabiano Dalpiaz, Alessio Ferrari, Xavier Franch, Cristina Palomares
Natural Language Processing for Requirements Engineering: The Best Is Yet to Come. IEEE Softw. 35 (5) (2018)
Paola Spoletini, Alessio Ferrari, Muneera Bano, Didar Zowghi, Stefania Gnesi
Interview Review: An Empirical Study on Detecting Ambiguities in Requirements Elicitation Interviews. REFSQ (2018)
Alessio Ferrari, Gloria Gori, Benedetta Rosadini, Iacopo Trotta, Stefano Bacherini, Alessandro Fantechi, Stefania Gnesi
Detecting requirements defects with NLP patterns: an industrial experience in the railway domain. Empir. Softw. Eng. 23 (6) (2018)
Franco Mazzanti, Alessio Ferrari
Ten Diverse Formal Models for a CBTC Automatic Train Supervision System. MARS/VPT@ETAPS (2018)
Maurice H. ter Beek, Alessandro Fantechi, Alessio Ferrari, Stefania Gnesi, Riccardo Scopigno
Formal Methods for the Railway Sector. ERCIM News 2018 (112) (2018)
Yehia Elrakaiby, Alessio Ferrari, John Mylopoulos
CaRE: A Refinement Calculus for Requirements Engineering Based on Argumentation Semantics. RE (2018)
Daniel M. Berry, Jane Cleland-Huang, Alessio Ferrari, Walid Maalej, John Mylopoulos, Didar Zowghi
Panel: Context-Dependent Evaluation of Tools for NL RE Tasks: Recall vs. Precision, and Beyond. RE (2017)
Alessio Ferrari, Giorgio Oronzo Spagnolo, Stefania Gnesi
Towards a Dataset for Natural Language Requirements Processing. REFSQ Workshops (2017)
Paola Spoletini, Alessio Ferrari
Requirements Elicitation: A Look at the Future Through the Lenses of the Past. RE (2017)
Yehia Elrakaiby, Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini, Stefania Gnesi, Bashar Nuseibeh
Using Argumentation to Explain Ambiguity in Requirements Elicitation Interviews. RE (2017)
Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini, Beatrice Donati, Didar Zowghi, Stefania Gnesi
Interview Review: Detecting Latent Ambiguities to Improve the Requirements Elicitation Process. RE (2017)
Alessio Ferrari, Felice Dell'Orletta, Andrea Esuli, Vincenzo Gervasi, Stefania Gnesi
Natural Language Requirements Processing: A 4D Vision. IEEE Softw. 34 (6) (2017)
Franco Mazzanti, Alessio Ferrari, Giorgio Oronzo Spagnolo
The KandISTI/UMC Online Open-Access Verification Framework. ERCIM News 2017 (109) (2017)
Alessio Ferrari, Beatrice Donati, Stefania Gnesi
Detecting Domain-Specific Ambiguities: An NLP Approach Based on Wikipedia Crawling and Word Embeddings. RE Workshops (2017)
Alessio Ferrari, Giorgio Oronzo Spagnolo, Stefania Gnesi
PURE: A Dataset of Public Requirements Documents. RE (2017)
Beatrice Donati, Alessio Ferrari, Paola Spoletini, Stefania Gnesi
Common Mistakes of Student Analysts in Requirements Elicitation Interviews. REFSQ (2017)
Franco Mazzanti, Alessio Ferrari, Giorgio Oronzo Spagnolo
Avoiding Gridlocks in the Centralised Dispatching of a Fleet of Autonomous Vehicles. ERCIM News 2017 (109) (2017)
Alessio Ferrari, Mario Fusani, Stefania Gnesi
Are Standards an Ambiguity-Free Reference for Product Validation? RSSRail (2017)
Benedetta Rosadini, Alessio Ferrari, Gloria Gori, Alessandro Fantechi, Stefania Gnesi, Iacopo Trotta, Stefano Bacherini
Using NLP to Detect Requirements Defects: An Industrial Experience in the Railway Domain. REFSQ (2017)

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