| 2019 | EuroSPI | An Experience of Use a Serious Game for Teaching Software Process Improvement. | Alejandro Caldern, Manuel Trinidad, Mercedes Ruiz, Rory V. O'Connor |
| 2019 | PROFES | Understanding How and When Human Factors Are Used in the Software Process: A Text-Mining Based Literature Review. | Mercedes Ruiz, Davide Salanitri |
| 2018 | EuroSPI | Towards a Standard to Describe and Classify Serious Games as Learning Resources for Software Project Management. | Alejandro Caldern, Manuel Trinidad, Mercedes Ruiz, Rory V. O'Connor |
| 2017 | EuroSPI | Coverage of ISO/IEC 29110 Project Management Process of Basic Profile by a Serious Game. | Alejandro Caldern, Mercedes Ruiz, Rory V. O'Connor |
| 2017 | EuroSPI | ProDecAdmin: A Game Scenario Design Tool for Software Project Management Training. | Alejandro Caldern, Mercedes Ruiz, Rory V. O'Connor |
| 2017 | ICSE | Integrating Serious Games as Learning Resources in a Software Project Management Course: The Case of ProDec. | Alejandro Caldern, Mercedes Ruiz, Elena Orta |
| 2017 | PROFES | Applying Extreme Engineering and Personality Factors to Improve Software Development Under a Heavyweight Methodology. | Mercedes Ruiz, Germn Fuentes |
| 2017 | SPICE | Coverage of the ISO 21500 Standard in the Context of Software Project Management by a Simulation-Based Serious Game. | Alejandro Caldern, Mercedes Ruiz, Rory V. O'Connor |
| 2017 | SPICE | Applying Agent-Based Simulation to the Improvement of Agile Software Management. | Nuria Hurtado, Mercedes Ruiz, Cristina Capitas, Elena Orta |
| 2017 | SPICE | Gamification for Improving IT Service Incident Management. | Elena Orta, Mercedes Ruiz, Alejandro Caldern, Nuria Hurtado |
| 2016 | PROFES | Gamification and Functional Prototyping to Support Motivation Towards Software Process Improvement. | Mercedes Ruiz, Manuel Trinidad, Alejandro Caldern |
| 2016 | SPICE | Coverage of ISO/IEC 12207 Software Lifecycle Process by a Simulation-Based Serious Game. | Alejandro Caldern, Mercedes Ruiz |
| 2016 | SPICE | A Simulation and Gamification Approach for IT Service Management Improvement. | Elena Orta, Mercedes Ruiz |
| 2014 | CSEDU | Bringing Real-life Practice in Software Project Management Training Through a Simulation-based Serious Game. | Alejandro Caldern, Mercedes Ruiz |
| 2012 | WSC | Decision making support in CMMI process areas using multiparadigm simulation modeling. | Daniel Crespo, Mercedes Ruiz |
| 2012 | WEBIST | Evaluating the Service Level Agreements of NDT under WS-Agreement - An Empirical Analysis. | Marcos Palacios, Laura Moreno, Mara Jos Escalona, Mercedes Ruiz |
| 2009 | Interact | Using a Dynamic Model to Simulate the Heuristic Evaluation of Usability. | Nuria Hurtado, Mercedes Ruiz, Jess Torres |
| 2004 | PROFES | Using Dynamic Modeling and Simulation to Improve the COTS Software Process. | Mercedes Ruiz, Isabel Ramos, Miguel Toro |
| 2002 | PROFES | Integrating Dynamic Models for CMM-Based Software Process Improvement. | Mercedes Ruiz, Isabel Ramos, Miguel Toro |