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AGM, Distinguished Speaker and Poster Competition
Slides for Bashar Nuseibeh's talk (pdf)
Bashar Nuseibeh with the two winners of the Poster Competition in front of the winning poster:
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See some of the entrants' research posters here -
Sanna Keskioja
Event details:
Date
12 July 2006
Venue
Clore Lecture Theatre, Level 2 (Ground Floor) Huxley Building
Dept. of Computing, 180 Queen's Gate, Imperial College London
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Provisional Programme
14.00 AGM and Election of Committee
14.30 Bashar Nuseibeh "The Problems of Security"
15.15 Coffee
15.30 Poster Session and Announcement of Results
16.30 Close
Distinguished speaker
Professor Bashar Nuseibeh (Computing, The Open University)
The Problems of Security
The proliferation of computers in society has meant that valuable business and mission critical assets are increasingly stored and manipulated by computer-based systems. The scale of misuse of those assets has also increased, because of their worldwide accessibility through the Internet and the automation of systems. The Security Engineering community has therefore developed a variety of techniques for protecting computer-based information. What this community has recognised as necessary, but still lacking, is a systematic process of eliciting, specifying, and analysing system and software security requirements. Security requirements describe the need to protect assets from harm, typically in the form of constraints on other functional requirements. However, they are often left imprecise, or ignored entirely in favour of specifications of the mechanisms, such as encryption or access control, for implementing security in particular systems. This prevents early yet rigorous analysis of security goals, and can lead to the development of systems that miss some key security concerns and that are therefore vulnerable in the face of unexpected threats.
The Open University's Computing Department has an active research programme in Security Requirements Engineering, who focus is on analysing security problems, with a view to eliciting and documenting security requirements, and relating those requirements to architectural specifications and designs. This talk reviews some of the key challenges in security requirement engineering, and provides an overview of a range of research projects in the area. These include:
- modelling access policies by relating roles to their organisational context
- analysing security threats using abuse frames
- using satisfaction argumentation to validate security requirements
- managing privacy requirements in ubiquitous computing.
Speaker's Biography
Bashar Nuseibeh is Chair and Director of Research in Computing at The Open University (OU), and a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London. Previously he was a Reader at Imperial College, Head of its Software Engineering Laboratory, and co-Founder and Director of its Government-funded and industrially-sponsored Centre of Excellence for Systems Requirements Engineering. His research interests are in software requirements engineering and design, software process modelling and technology, and technology transfer. He has published over 100 refereed papers and consulted widely with industry, working with organisations such as the UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS), Texas Instruments, Praxis Critical Systems, Philips Research Labs, and NASA. He has also served as Principal or Co-Investigator on a number of research projects on software engineering, security engineering, and learning technologies, funded by the EPSRC, the EU, the Leverhulme Trust, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and industry.
Professor Nuseibeh is Editor-in-Chief of the Automated Software Engineering Journal (published by Springer), Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and a member of the Editorial Board of five other international journals. He was founder and Chairman of the BCS Requirements Engineering Specialist Group (1994-2004), and is currently Chair of IFIP Working Group 2.9 (Software Requirements Engineering). He has served as Programme Chair of major conferences in his field, including the 13th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’98), the 5th IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE’01), and the 27th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2005).
Professor Nuseibeh holds an MSc and PhD in Software Engineering from Imperial College London, and a First Class Honours BSc in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Sussex. He received a 2002 Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding international research achievements while under the age of 36, a "Most Influential Paper" award at the 2003 International Conference on Software Engineering, a "Best Application Paper" award from the 18th International Conference on Logic Programming, and a number of other best paper and service awards. He currently holds a Senior Research Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering and The Leverhulme Trust. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a member of the IEE (now IET), and is a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.).
Poster Competition: iPod Prizes!
We're looking for undergraduates, PhD students and RAs alike to demonstrate their requirements engineering related work in the form of an A0 poster. The posters will be judged by everyone attending the event: the winner will receive a 2GB iPod nano and the runner up will receive an iPod shuffle.
To enter the competition please send your completed posters, in PDF format, to a.stone@comp.lancs.ac.uk by Monday the 10th of July. This will give us a clear indication of the number of people attending, as well as allowing us to check the posters are suitably RE-related. Exact details of the time, room number and location of the event will be sent to you later, although it is expected that poster demonstrators should arrive by approximately 1pm.
The layout of the poster is up to you - do whatever best demonstrates your work. Remember to keep your posters clear and concise and use a variety of layout tools, such as colours, numbering and spacing to make it easy to understand. Advice, including suitable font sizes, can be found here:
http://lamswww.epfl.ch/conference/re06_poster/poster_guideline.pdf
Please note that YOU are required to print and bring your poster to this event.
Your target audience is a mix of both academic researchers and industrial practitioners; this competition represents an excellent way to inform the UK requirements engineering community about your work.
We look forward to seeing you on the 12th of July.
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