Jacobus Nicolaas (Sjaak) Brinkkemper (born

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, 18 January 1958) is a Dutch computer scientist, and Full

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of organisation and information at the Department of Information and Computing Sciences of

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Biography

Brinkkemper received a BA from the

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in 1980 and an MSc from the

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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

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and

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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

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. 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

, 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'', ''

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'', ''Journal of Database Management'', ''Journal on Information Systems and e-Business Management'', and ''

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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 Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project. A requi ...

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. *

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, 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: *

References

External links

Staff web pages
at Utrecht University.

at Utrecht University. {{DEFAULTSORT:Brinkkemper, Sjaak 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