Jacobus Nicolaas (Sjaak) Brinkkemper (born
Monnickendam
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, 18 January 1958) is a Dutch
computer scientist, and Full
Professor
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of organisation and information at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of
Utrecht University
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.
Biography
Brinkkemper received a BA from the
University of Amsterdam
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in 1980 and an
MSc from the
Radboud University Nijmegen
Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university located in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The university bears the name of Saint Radboud, a 9th century ...
in 1984, both in
Mathematics. In 1990 he received a
PhD at the same university with his thesis ''Formalisation of information systems modelling'', supervised by
Eckhard Falkenberg
Eckhard D. Falkenberg (born 1942) is a German scientist and Professor Emeritus of Information Systems at the Radboud University Nijmegen. He is known for his contributions in the fields of information modelling, especially object-role modeling,Ter ...
and
Alex Verrijn Stuart
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.
In 1984 he became an assistant professor at the department of Informatics at the Radboud University. In 1992 he became associate professor at the
University of Twente
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The university has been placed in the top 170 universities in the world by multiple central ranking tables. I ...
. In addition, he has been a process architect at
Baan from 1996 to 2002 and a consultant at Emendas for another year. Since 2004 Brinkkemper is full professor at
Utrecht University
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, where he leads a group of about twenty researchers specialized in product software development and entrepreneurship.
He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals ''Business Informatics'', ''
European Journal of Information Systems
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'', ''Journal of Database Management'', ''Journal on Information Systems and e-Business Management'', and ''
Management Information Systems Quarterly
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''. Since 1989 he is a member of the International Federation for Information Processing
IFIP WG 8.1 working group on information systems design and evaluation.
Work
Brinkkemper's research interests are methodology of product
software development, software implementation, methods,
requirements management
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,
method engineering
Method engineering in the "field of information systems is the discipline to construct new methods from existing methods".F. Harmsen & M. Saeki (1996). "Comparison of four method engineering languages". In: Sjaak Brinkkemper et al. (eds.) '' ...
, information systems methodology,
CASE-tools, and system development tools.
Editorial Board Associate Editor: Sjaak Brinkkemper Utrecht University Research Interests
Accessdate 2009-07-14.
Publications
Brinkkemper has published several books, papers, and articles. Books:
* Sjaak Brinkkemper. ''Formalisation of information systems modelling''. PhD thesis Radboud University, Nijmegen 1990
* Sjaak Brinkkemper and Matti Rossi. ''Metrics in Method Engineering''. 1994.
* Sjaak Brinkkemper, Kalle Lyytinen and Richard J. Welke (eds.). ''Method engineering: principles of method construction and tool support''. International Federation for Information Processing, 1996.
* Sjaak Brinkkemper, Arne Solvberg, Eva Lindencrona. ''Information systems engineering: state of the art and research themes''. London etc. : Springer, 2000.
* Colette Rolland
Colette Rolland (born 1943, in Dieupentale, Tarn-et-Garonne, France) is a French computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science in the department of Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and a leading r ...
, Sjaak Brinkkemper and Motoshi Saeki (eds.). ''Engineering information systems in the Internet context.'' International Federation for Information Processing IFIP TC8/WG8.1, 2002.
* John Krogstie
John Krogstie (born 23 May 1967) is a Norwegian computer scientist, professor in information systems at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, and an expert in the field of enterprise modelling.
Biograp ...
, Andreas Lothe Opdahl, and Sjaak Brinkkemper (eds.). ''Conceptual Modelling in Information Systems Engineering''. Berlin: Springer, 2007. * Jolita Ralyté, Sjaak Brinkkemper, and Brian Henderson-Sellers
Brian Henderson-Sellers (born January 1951) is an English computer scientist residing in Sydney, Australia, and Professor of Information Systems at the University of Technology Sydney. He is also Director of the Centre for Object Technology and A ...
(eds.). ''Situational Method Engineering: Fundamentals and Experiences: Proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference, 12–14 September 2007, Geneva, Switzerland. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, Vol. 244''. Berlin: Springer, 2007.
Articles, a selection:
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References
External links
Staff web pages
at Utrecht University.
at Utrecht University.
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1958 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Enterprise modelling experts
Radboud University Nijmegen alumni
Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen
Dutch software engineers
Software engineering researchers
Academic staff of the University of Twente
Academic staff of Utrecht University
People from Monnickendam
20th-century Dutch engineers
21st-century Dutch engineers