Where Do Software Requirements Come From 2011
From Requirements Engineering Specialist Group
BCS East Anglia:
Where Do Software Requirements Come From?
Speakers' Slides now available from this event:
Requirements Discovery Using Machine Learning - Dalal Alrajeh
Date
Tuesday 12 April, 7.30pm
Location
Red Gate Software Ltd., Newnham House, Cambridge Business Park, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ
Speakers
Ljerka Beus-Dukic, University or Westminster,
Alistair Mavin, Rolls-Royce and
Dalal Alrajeh, Imperial College London
Overview
This is a joint event between the RESG and BCS East Anglia:
Requirements are discovered by appropriate inquiry techniques in different contexts ranging from traditional environments, where stakeholders have their say, to new environments where utilisation of creative thinking and artificial intelligence is explored.
One hour talk will include the perspectives of academia (Ljerka Beus-Dukic, University of Westminster), industry (Alistair Mavin, Rolls-Royce) and research (Dalal Alrajeh, Imperial College London).
Ljerka Beus-Dukic is a lecturer in software engineering at the University of Westminster and has taught requirements engineering for the last 10 years. Prior to joining academia, she worked in industry as a software engineer on supervisory control and data acquisition software for real-time industrial applications. Ljerka is the co-author of the book 'Discovering Requirements' (Wiley 2009) and has published numerous papers in academic journals and conference proceedings. She is a chartered engineer and a committee member of the BCS's Requirements Engineering Specialist Group.
Alistair Mavin is a control systems engineer at Rolls-Royce in Derby. Prior to joining Rolls-Royce he carried out requirements engineering projects in a range of industries including defence, aerospace, rail and automotive. He has experience in the development and delivery of requirements engineering training and contributed to several research papers and book chapters on the subject. He is a chartered engineer and a committee member of the BCS's Requirements Engineering Specialist Group.
Dalal Alrajeh is a Research Associate on Sebastian Uchitel's ERC project "Partial Behaviour Modelling: A Foundation for Incremental and Iterative Model-Based Software Engineering" at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. She was awarded her PhD in February 2010 at Imperial College, under the supervision of Dr. Alessandra Russo and Dr. Uchitel. Her research is concerned with requirements elicitation and elaboration using behaviour model analysis and machine learning. She has published papers in software engineering and artificial intelligence journals and conferences. She is appointed as the Early Research Career Officer for the BCS's Requirements Engineering Specialist Group. For further details, please see http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~da04.
This talk will be of interest to a wide range of members of BCS, many of whom have experienced problems with requirements.
BCS East Anglia website:
http://eastanglia.bcs.org/commit.htm