Ian F Alexander: Technical Papers

2012

It's all about Risk, Mr Glinz

Festschrift article, November 2012 (.pdf), in Norbert Seyff and Anne Koziolek (editors), Modelling and Quality in Requirements Engineering: Essays Dedicated to Martin Glinz on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. MV-Wissenschaft, 2012. pp 3-11. ISBN 978-3-86991-724-5

 

2010

Model-Based Requirements Discovery

Invited Talk, RuSEC, Moscow, September 2010 (.pdf)

Моделеориентированное_выявление_требований

Invited Talk, RuSEC, Moscow, September 2010 (.pdf, in Russian)

Piecing Together the Requirements Jigsaw

Invited Keynote Talk, REFSQ, Essen, July 2010 (.pdf)

 

2009

Does Requirements Elicitation Apply to Open Source Development?

Paper for OSSG Seminar, London, January 2009 (.pdf)

 

2008

Evaluating Design Options Against Requirements: How Far Can Statistics Help? (Trade-offs)

(Refereed) paper for RE'08, Barcelona, September 2008 (.pdf)

A Practical Way for Projects to Visualize Design Rationale

(Refereed) paper for SEVIZ, London, July 2008 (.pdf)

 

2007

Choosing a Tram Route  (Trade-offs)

(Refereed) paper for RE'07, Delhi, October 2007

Building What Stakeholders Desire

Point Counter Point, IEEE Software, March/April 2007, pages 62-65

(opposite Kent Beck's "Don't Just DWWTY" [Do What They Tell You])

 

2006

Ten Small Steps to Better Requirements

Requirements column, IEEE Software, 23, 2, pages 19-21, Mar/Apr, 2006.
This is said to have been easily the most popular download from the Software archive.

Identifying Dissonance and Other Dangers from Requirements

(Refereed) paper for the 1st IET International Conference on System Safety,
Savoy Place, London, 6-8 June 2006, pages 17-22.

2005

Modelling the Regulatory Role of Business Processes with Use and Misuse Cases

(Refereed, co-authored) paper for BPMJ, 11, 6, 695-708, 2005

What Influences the Requirements Process In Industry? (Survey)

(Refereed, co-authored) paper for RE'05, Paris, September 2005 (.pdf)

2004

Scenarios, Stories, Use Cases

edited & co-authored book, Wiley 2004

A Better Fit - Characterising the Stakeholders

(Refereed) paper for BPMDS Workshop at CAISE'04, Riga, June 2004

A Taxonomy of Stakeholders (Onion Model)

(Refereed) paper for Int. J. Technology and Human Interaction, Vol 1, 1, 2005, pages 23-59
reissued as Chapter 2 (pages 25-71) of Issues and Trends in Technology and Human Interaction,
edited by Bernd Carsten Stahl, IRM Press, 2007.

2003

Are There Requirements for Business Process Support?

(Refereed) paper for REBPS workshop at CAISE 2003

SemiAutomatic Tracing of Requirement Versions to Use Cases

(Refereed) paper for the Second International Workshop on Traceability, Montreal, October 2003

Misuse Cases: Use Cases with Hostile Intent

(Refereed) article in IEEE Software, Vol 20, No 1, Jan-Feb 2003, 58-66

2002

Use Cases in Systems Engineering

(Refereed) paper in IEE CCEJ, Vol 13, 6, 289-297, December 2002

Towards Better Railway Specifications Through Scenarios

(Refereed) paper for The Railway Technology Conference (RailTex), Birmingham, November 2002

Initial Industrial Experience of Misuse Cases in Trade-Off Analysis

(Refereed) paper at RE'02 Conference, Essen, September 2002

Towards Automatic Traceability in Industrial Practice

(Refereed) paper for the First International Workshop on Traceability, Edinburgh, September 2002

Modelling the Interplay of Conflicting Goals with Use and Misuse Cases

(Refereed) Paper at REFSQ Workshop, Essen, September 2002

Towards Recyclable System Requirements

(Refereed) paper for ECBS 2002, Lund, Sweden, April 2002

On Abstraction In Scenarios

Viewpoints Article, Requirements Engineering Journal (2002) 6:252-255

2000

Scenario-Driven Search Finds More Exceptions

(Refereed) paper at REP 2000, Greenwich; Proc DEXA 2000, IEEE, 4-8 September 2000, 991-994

1999

Supporting a Co-operative RE Process

(Refereed) paper at REP, Florence, 1999; Proc DEXA 1999, IEEE, 1-3 September 1999, 340-344

Migrating Towards Co-operative Requirements Engineering

(Refereed) paper in IEE CCEJ, Vol 10, 1, 17-22, February 1999

Requirements Engineering as a Co-Operative Inquiry

(Refereed) paper at CEIRE (Conference on European Industrial Requirements Engineering), Hammersmith, London, 1998;
published in Requirements Engineering (1998) 3:130-137

1998

A Task Modelling Approach to Business Process Understanding

(Refereed) paper at GBPM Workshop, ECOOP 1998

1997

Requirements Engineering with Kilov Object Models

(Refereed) paper at GBPM Workshop, ECOOP, 1997

Evolution of a Maintainable Quality System

paper in Quality Journal, 1997

1993

SOCRAT: Graduating from a Defined Software Development Process to a Managed Process: Software Cost Estimation from Requirements

(Refereed, co-authored) 4th IEEE Int'l Software Engineering Standards Symposium, Brighton, England, 4-10,1993

1990

Scheduling for the European Data Relay Satellite

(Refereed) paper, J British Interplanetary Society, Vol 43, No. 2, 69-72, 1990

1986

The Fossil Expert System

Expert Systems, April 1986, Vol 3, No 2, pages 76-83  (ISSN 0266-4720)

Human Factors in the Columbus Space Station

(Refereed, co-authored) Ian Alexander, Ged Morrisroe, Pat Norris, and Andrew Tindell
Proc. 2nd BCS HCI Conf, York, England. 97-114, August 23-26, 1986

1985

FOSSIL: An Expert System for Palæontology

(Refereed) Ian F. Alexander
Tertiary Research, 7(1), Pages 1-11, Leiden, April 1985