Jan Verelst (born ca 1960) is a Belgian computer scientist, Professor and Dean of the Department of Management Information Systems at the

University of Antwerp The University of Antwerp ( nl, Universiteit Antwerpen) is a major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp. The official abbreviation is ''UA'', but ''UAntwerpen'' is more recently used. The University of Antwerp has about 20,000 stud ...

, and Professor at the

Antwerp Management School The Antwerp Management School ( nl, Antwerp Management School) is the University of Antwerp's autonomous business school. It is located in the historical center of the city of Antwerp. The school offers eight full-time master programs and more th ...

, known for his work on Normalized Systems.

Biography

Verelst obtained his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems in 1999 from the

Sulayman K. Sowe et al. ''Emerging Free and Open Source Software Practices''. (2008) p. 284 with a thesis entitled "De invloed van variabiliteit op de evolueerbaarheid van conceptuele modellen van informatiesystemen" (''The impact of variability on the evolvability of conceptual models of information systems''). After his graduation he was appointed Professor of Systems Development Methodology at the Faculty of Applied Economics of the

, and Dean of the Department of Management Information Systems. He is also appointed as Professor at Antwerp Management School. His research interests are in the field of "conceptual modeling of information systems, evolvability, and maintainability of information systems, empirical software engineering, and open source software", specifically the development of Normalized Systems, and its development methodology.

Publications

Verelst authored and co-authored many publications in his field of expertise.Verelst, Jan (82)
Academic bibliography Books: * * Articles, a selection: * Du Bois, Bart, Serge Demeyer, and Jan Verelst.
Refactoring-improving coupling and cohesion of existing code
" ''Reverse Engineering, 2004. Proceedings. 11th Working Conference on. IEEE'', 2004. * Hidders, J., Dumas, M., van der Aalst, W. M., ter Hofstede, A. H., & Verelst, J. (2005, January).
When are two workflows the same?
" In ''Proceedings of the 2005 Australasian symposium on Theory of computing-Volume 41'' (pp. 3–11). Australian Computer Society, Inc.. * Ven, Kris, Jan Verelst, and

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. "Should you adopt open source software?." ''IEEE Software'' 25.3 (2008): 54-59. * Huysmans, Philip, Kris Ven, and Jan Verelst. "Using the DEMO methodology for modeling open source software development processes." ''Information and Software Technology'' 52.6 (2010): 656-671. *

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