Requirements Models at Design and Runtime [slides download]

Prof. John Mylopoulos - University of Trento - Italy.

 

We review the history of requirements models and conclude that a goal-oriented perspective offers a suitable abstraction for requirements analysis. We then sketch some of the desirable features (... "requirements") of design-time and runtime requirements models and draw conclusions about their similarities and differences. We also stake positions on the nature of modelling languages in general, and requirements modelling languages in particular.

 

Presenter bio

John Mylopoulos holds a distinguished professor position (chiara fama) at the University of Trento, and a professor emeritus position at the University of Toronto. He earned a PhD degree from Princeton University in 1970 and joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto that year. His research interests include conceptual modelling, requirements engineering, data semantics and knowledge management. Mylopoulos is a fellow of the Association fo r the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Sciences). He has served as programme/general chair of international conferences in Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Software Engineering, including IJCAI (1991), Requirements Engineering (1997), and VLDB (2004). Mylopoulos was recently awarded an advanced grant from the European Research Council for a project titled "Lucretius: Foundations for Software Evolution".

The Next 10 Years: the shape of software to come and what if means for software engineering [slides download]

Prof. Anthony Finkelstein - University College London - UK.

 Software engineering provides the method, tools and processes to support the development of complex software systems. As a discipline it must necessarily respond and adapt to the types of system that people want to build and the business context in which software development takes place. We have already seen major changes away from monolithic, custom-built systems to much more highly componentised distributed systems incorporating software packages, glue code and scripting. These changes have been paralleled by changes in the software business with outsourced development and community sourced middleware. In this talk I examine the next set of transformations in the software business, some already evident, such as ‘apps’ and ‘cloud’ infrastructure, as well as some more speculative developments. I consider their implications for software engineering research and practice. We will pay particular attention to developments in technologies related to data management and interoperability.

 

Presenter bio

Anthony Finkelstein a graduate in systems engineering holding a BEng, MSC and PhD. He is Professor of Software Systems Engineering at University College London (UCL), a leading UK research university. He is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and at the National Institute for Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. He is Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Science and was Head of the Department of Computer Science at UCL. He has published more than 220 scientific papers and secured more than £20m of research funding. He is a Fellow of both the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) and the British Computer Society (BCS) and has been active professionally in both, serving on numerous Boards and Committees. Most recently he has been appointed Chair of the BCS Science & Engineering Engagement Committee and received a special 'Outstanding Contribution Award' from the International Conference on Software Engineering. In 2009 he received the Oliver Lodge Medal of the IET for achievement in Information Technology. He has been recognised for his contributions to the field of requirements engineering and for his professional service by the IEEE. He was a winner of the prestigious International Conference on Software Engineering 'most influential paper' prize for work on 'viewpoints' and a winner of the Requirements Engineering 'most influential paper' prize for work on traceability. He was a member of the winning team of the first Times Higher Education 'Research Project of the Year'. He has served on numerous editorial boards including that of ACM TOSEM and IEEE TSE, and was founder editor of Automated Software Engineering. He also chaired numerous international meetings and was General Chair of the International Conference on Software Engineering. He was keynote speaker at Automated Software Engineering. He was the founder Chair of IFIP WG 2.9 (Software Requirements Engineering) an international research society and was keynote speaker at the International Conference on Requirements Engineering. He established a leading research group in software systems engineering at UCL and played a key role in the foundation of London Software Systems, a major new research institute. He served on the UK 2008 Research Assessment Exercise panel for Computer Science and Informatics and was a member of the Committee of Visitors for the US National Science Foundation. He has provided consultancy advice to a very large number of high profile companies and government organisations. He has acted as an expert in complex technology disputes and is highly experienced at technology due diligence on start-up companies. He was recently awarded the UCL 'Entrepreneurial Spirit' award, an institutional honour marking his contributions to knowledge transfer. He has established three successful 'spinout' companies providing respectively professional services, product software and an innovative software..