Professional Activities

Editorial Activities

Editor-in-Chief of the Automated Software Engineering Journal.
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (Edior-in-Chief from 2010)
Member of editorial boards of the Requirements Engineering Journal , RITA , IAJIT, IJAOSE , and JCSEA.
Guest Editor of two TSE special issues on Managing Inconsistency (November 1998 and Nov/Dec 1999), one TSE special issue on ICSE’05 (August 2006), and one TSE special issue on Software Engineering for Secure Systems.
Guest Editor of a special issue of the Requirements Engineering Journal on selected papers from RE'01, and a special issue of IEE Proceedings – Software on Requirements and Architectures (2005).
Editor of the ICSE-18 newspaper WOW - Window On the World, 1996 (Three issues: WOW-1, WOW-2, and WOW-3).
Co-editor of the ICSE-98 daily newspaper.

Chairmanship

Chairman of the British Computer Society Requirements Engineering Specialist Group (1994-2004).
Chair of IFIP Working Group 2.9 (Software Requirements Engineering) (2005- ).
Vice Chair of IFIP Technical Committee 2 (Software: Theory and Practice).

Programme Co-Chair 27th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2005), 15-21 May 2005, St Louis, Missouri, USA .
Programme Chair 5th IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE-01), 27th-31st August, Toronto, Canada.
Programme Co-Chair of 13th Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE 98), October 1998, Hawaii, USA.
General Chair of 6th European Workshop on Software Process Technology (EWSPT 98), April 1998.

Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair of International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2006), Shanghai, China, May 2006.
Panels Chair 24th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2002), Buenos Aries, Argentina, 19-25 May 2002.
Workshops Chair Joint ESEC/FSE-2001 , 10-14 September 2001, Vienna, Austria.
Publicity Co-Chair 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2001), 12-19 May 2001, Toronto, Canada.
Track Chair Software Engineering Education and Training (SEAT), 22nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2000), 4-11 June 2000, Limerick, Ireland.
Tutorials Co-Chair of 20th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 98), 20-24 April 1998, Kyoto, Japan.

Steering Committee Memberships

· International Conference on Software Engineering (2002- ). Chair of SC since 2007.

· IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (1998- ).

· IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference(2002-2006).

· IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (2000-2002).

· European Workshop on Software Process Technology (1998-2001).

Programme Committees Membership

16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE-08), September 2008, Barcelona, Spain.
30th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2008), 10-18 May 2008, Leipzig, Germany.
15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE-07), 15-19 October 2007, Delhi, India.
21st IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE-2006), 18-22 September 2006, Tokyo, Japan.
14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE-06), 11-15 September 2006, Minneapolis, USA.
5th ACM International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD-06), 20-24 March 2006, Bonn, Germany.
13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE-05), 29 August-2 September 2005, Paris, France.
12th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-12), 31 October -6 November 2004, Newport Beach, California, USA.
12th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE-04), 6-10 September 2003, Kyoto, Japan .
26th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2004), 23-28 May 2004 , Edinburgh, UK.
18th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE-2003), 6-10 October 2003, Montreal, Canada.
11th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE-03), 8-12 September 2003, Monterey Bay, USA .
Joint ESEC/FSE-2003 : 9th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and 11th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-11), 1-5 September 2003, Helsinki, Finland.
Software Engineeing Education and Training (SEET) Track of 25th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2003), 3-10 May 2003 , Portland, USA.
7th Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE-2002), 2-3 December 2002, Melbourne Australia .
17th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE-2002), 23-27 September 2002, Edinburgh, UK.
IEEE Joint International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE-02), 9-13 September 2002, Essen, Germany.
24th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2002), 19-25 May 2002 , Buenos Aries, Argentina.
Soft-Ware : Computing in an Imperfect World, Belfast, 8-10 April 2002, Northern Ireland.
16th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE-2001), 26-29 November 2001, San Diego, USA.
1st International Workshop on Model-based Requirements Engineering (MBRE-01), 30 November 2001, San Diego, USA.
Joint ESEC/FSE-2001 : 8th European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and 9th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-9), 10-14 September 2001, Vienna, Austria.
7th International Workshop Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'2001), 4-5 June 2001, Interlaken, Switzerland.
Workshop on Advanced Separation of Concerns in Software Engineering , 15 May 2001, Toronto, Canada.
1st International Workshop: From Software Requirements to Architectures (STRAW'01), 14 May 2001, Toronto, Canada.
2nd International Workshop on Living With Inconsistency , 13 May 2001, Toronto, Canada.
8th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-2000), 6-10 November 2000, San Diego, USA.
International Symposium on Principles of Software Evolution (ISPSE), 1-2 November 2000, Kanazawa, Japan.
14th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES'2000), 4-6 October 2000, Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil.
15th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE-2000), 11-15 September 1999, Grenoble, France.
22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-2000), 11-15 June 2000, Limerick, Ireland.
4th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE '2000), 19-23 June 2000, Chicago, USA.
13th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES'99), 13-15 October 1999, Florianópolis, Brazil.
14th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE-99), 12-15 October 1999, Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA.
4th IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE '99), 7-11 June 1999, Limmerick, Ireland.
21st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE-99), 16-22 May 1999, Los Angeles, USA.
3rd IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE '98), 5-9 April 1998, Colorado Springs, USA.
IEEE Knowledge and Data Engineering Exchange Workshop (KDEX '98), 9th November 1998, Taipei, Taiwan.
12th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES'98) October 1998, de Maringa, Parana, Brazil.
9th IEEE International Workshop on Software Specification and Design (IWSSD-9), 16-18 April 1998, Ise-shima, Japan.
Doctoral Symposium at 20th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 98), 20-24 April 1998, Kyoto, Japan.
4th International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software : Software Quality in the Communication Society (AQuIS'98), 31st March - 3rd April 1998, Venice, Italy.
Joint Asian-Pacific Software Engineering Conference and International Computer Science Conference (APSEC'97/ICSC'97), December 1997, Hong Kong.
11th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES'97) 15-17 October 1997, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil.
12th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE '97, formerly KBSE), 2-5 November 1997, North Lake Tahoe, California, USA.
3rd IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE '97), 6-8 January 1997, Washington DC, USA.
2nd IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE '96), 15-18 April 1996, Colorado Springs, USA.
2nd World Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology (IDPT 96), 1-4 December 1996 , Austin, Texas..
3rd Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 96), 4-7 December 1996 , Seoul, Korea .

Keynotes and Selected Invited Talks

Distinguished Lecture Series (est 1969), December 2006, University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Distinguished Speaker Lecture, BCS RESG Annual General Meeting, July 2005, Imperial College London
Keynote Speaker, 3rd ACM International Confrence on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD-04), March 2001, Lancaster, UK.
Keynote Speaker, International IMS Project Forum (IMS-2001), 8-10 October 2001, Ascona, Switzerland.
Keynote Speaker, ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-2001), 26-29 June 2001, Beirut, Lebanon.
Keynote Speaker, 5th Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE-2000), 8-9 December 2000, Brisbane, Australia.
Keynote Speaker of DTI Workshop on Requirements Engineering, 27 September 1995, Gloucester, UK.

Invited Speaker, ICSE-2000 " Future of Software Engineering ", June 2000, Limerick, Ireland.
L'Heure du CRIM Invited Speaker, Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal, May 1999.
Invited Speaker, NASA/WVU IV&V Facility, Fairmont, August 1996 & May 1997.
Invited Speaker 3rd International Conference on Concurrent Engineering and Electronic Design Automation (CEEDA 96), January 1996, Poole, UK.
Invited Speaker at International Symposium on Software Engineering for the Next Generation , 5-7th February, 1996, Nagoya, Japan.
Invited Speaker at Fujitsu, NEC and NTT Research Laboratories, February 1996, Tokyo, Japan.
Invited Speaker at CMU/Software Engineering Institute, August 1996, Pittsburgh, USA.
Invited Speaker at IEE Residential Course on Systems Requirements Engineering, April 1997, University of Cambridge, UK.
Invited Speaker at International Summer School on Method Engineering & Meta-Modelling, May 1993, Twente, Holland.
Invited Speaker at Siemens, February 1992, Munich, Germany.
(Invited)Research Seminars at universities including York, Surrey, Karlsruhe, Berlin, Manchester, Warwick, Bath, City, Edinburgh, Essen, Keele, Kyoto, Tokyo, UMIST, CSIRO-Macquarie (Sydney), Sheffield-Hallam, Durham, Vienna, Brunel, DeMontford, Open, Lancaster, and London...