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Since Pace:

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Say, M., Scharff, C. and Sunetnanta, T. Distributing Responsibilities to Engineer Better Requirements: Leveraging Knowledge and Perspectives for Students to Learn a Key Skill. In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET’09). Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 31 August 2009.

Cooper, J.R., Lee, S-W, Gandhi, R.A. and Gotel, O. Requirements Engineering Visualization: A Survey on the State-of-the-Art. In Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV’09). Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 31 August 2009.

Mader, P., Gotel, O. and Philippow, I. Motivation Matters in the Traceability Trenches. In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'09). Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 31 August-4 September 2009.

Gotel, O. and Mader, P. How to Select a Requirements Management Tool: Initial Steps. In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'09). Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 31 August-4 September 2009. (Non peer-reviewed mini-tutorial description for the proceedings).

Gotel, O. and Cleland-Huang, J. Next Top Model: A Requirements Engineering Reality Panel. In Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'09). Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 31 August-4 September 2009. (Non peer-reviewed panel description for the proceedings).

Gotel, O. C. Z. and Marchese F. T. Scouting Requirements Quality With Visual Representations. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV'09), Barcelona, Spain, 15-17 July, 2009.

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Say, M., Scharff, C. and Sunetnanta, T. Quality Factors on Global Software Development Projects: Does "Getting to Know You" Really Matter? In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE'09), Limerick, Ireland, 13-16 July , 2009. **IEEE Computer Society Best Paper Award**

Sunetnanta, T., Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Say, M. and Scharff, C. Role-Based Meets Problem-Based for Software Engineering Learning. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Higher Education Research and Development (IHERD '09): Looking Beyond Globalization, Bangkok, Thailand, 9-12 July, 2009.

Sunetnanta, T., Nobprapai N-O. and Gotel, O. Quantitative CMMI Assessment for Offshoring Using the Analysis of Project Management Repositories. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD'09), Zurich, Switzerland, 2-3 July, 2009.

Gotel, O., Joseph, M. and Meyer, B. (Eds.) Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development, Third International Conference, SEAFOOD 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3, 2009, Proceedings. Series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Springer-Verlag, Vol. 35, 2009. ISBN: 978-3-642-02986-8. Book webpage.

Mader, P., Gotel, O. and Philippow, I. Enabling Automated Traceability Maintenance Through the Upkeep of Traceability Relations. In Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Model-Driven Architecture Foundations and Applications (ECMDA'09), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 23-26 June 2009.

Mader, P., Gotel, O. and Philippow, I. traceMAINTAINER – Tool Demonstration. In Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Model-Driven Architecture Foundations and Applications (ECMDA'09) -- Tools Track, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 23-26 June 2009.

Mader, P., Gotel, O. and Philippow, I. traceMAINTAINER: A Tool for the Semi-automated Maintenance of Model Traceability. In Proceedings of the 5th ECMDA Workshop on Traceability, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, 23 June 2009.

Nikula, U., Jurvanen, C., Gotel, O. and Gause, D.C. From Technology Migration to Organizational Culture Change. In Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Learning Software Organizations (LSO 2009), colocated with the 10th International Conference on Product Focused Software Development and Process Improvement (PROFES 2009), Oulu, Finland, 15 - 17 June, 2009.

Mader, P., Gotel, O. and Philippow, I. Semi-automated Traceability Maintenance: An Architectural Overview of traceMaintainer. Research Demo Poster, 31st International Conference on Software Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24, 2009.

Mader, P., Gotel, O. and Philippow, I. Getting Back to Basics: Promoting the Use of a Traceability Information Model in Practice. In Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE 2009) (In conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering), Vancouver, Canada, May 18, 2009.

Gotel, O. and Morris, S. More than Just "Lost in Translation" (Requirements Expert Column), IEEE Software, Volume 26, Issue 2, pp. 7-9, March-April 2009.

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Say, M., Scharff, C. and Sunetnanta, T. Evolving an Infrastructure for Student Global Software Development Projects: Lessons for Industry. In Proceedings of the 2nd India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC’09). Pune, India, 23-26 February, 2009.

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Say, M., Scharff, C. and Sunetnanta, T. A Global and Competition-based Model for Fostering Technical and Soft Skills in Software Engineering Education. In Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE-CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T'09). Hyderabad, India, 17-19 February, 2009.

Gotel, O. yTraceability – Putting the ‘y’ First. Requirements Quarterly: The Newsletter of the British Computer Society Requirements Engineering Specialist Interest Group. RQ 50, January 2009.

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Phal, D., Say, M., Scharff, C. and Sunetnanta, T. Impacting Global Software Development Through Socialization Activities in Virtual World Environments. In Proceedings of the 2nd Hanoi Forum on Information-Communication Technology, ICT-Hanoi, December, 2008.

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Phal, D., Say, M., Scharff, C. and Sunetnanta, T. Evolving an Infrastructure for Engineering, Communication, Project Management and Socialization to Facilitate Student Global Software Development Projects. In Papers of the First International Workshop on Infrastructure for Research in Collaborative Software Engineering (IRCoSE) at Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2008. Atlanta, Georgia, USA, November 9, 2008 (Non-archival paper).

Gotel, O. Traceability - Problems in a Word. Requirements Quarterly: The Newsletter of the British Computer Society Requirements Engineering Specialist Interest Group. RQ 49, October 2008.

Gotel, O., Scharff, C., Wildenberg, A., Bousso, M., Bunthoeurn, C., Des, P., Kulkarni, V., Palakvangsa Na Ayudhya, S., Sarr, C. and Sunetnanta, T. Global Perceptions on the Use of WeBWorK as an Online Tutor for Computer Science. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference: Racing Toward Innovation in Engineering Education (FIE’08). Saratoga Springs, New York, USA, 22-25 October 2008.

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V. and Scharff, C. Instructor or Project Manager: What is the Right Balance as Software Engineering Education Goes Global? In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference: Racing Toward Innovation in Engineering Education (FIE’08). Saratoga Springs, New York, USA, 22-25 October 2008.

Mader, P., Gotel, O. and Philippow, I. Enabling Automated Traceability Maintenance by Recognizing Development Activities Applied to Models. In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE’08). L'Aquila, Italy, 15-19 September 2008.

Mader, P., Gotel, O., Kuschke, T. and Philippow, I. traceMaintainer – Automated Traceability Maintenance.In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'08). Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 September 2008.

Mader, P., Gotel, O. and Philippow, I. Rule-Based Maintenance of Post-Requirements Traceability Relations. In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'08). Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 September 2008.

Smith, R. and Gotel, O. Gameplay to Introduce and Reinforce Requirements Engineering Practices. In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'08). Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 September 2008.

Gotel, O. Tracing Whodunit. In Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering: Beyond Mere Descriptions and with More Fun and Games (in conjunction with the 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference), Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 September 2008.

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Neak, L. and Scharff, C. Integration Starts on Day One in Global Software Development Projects. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE’08). Bangalore, India, 17-20 August 2008.

Delgadillo, L., Gotel, O. and Leip, D. Story-Wall: Supporting Agile Software Development in a Distributed Context. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-08), part of multi-conference (MULTICONF-08) in computer science, information technology, computer engineering, control and automation technology. Orlando, Florida, 7-10 July 2008.

Gotel, O.C.Z., Marchese, F.T. and Morris, S.J. The Potential for Synergy between Information Visualization and Software Engineering Visualization. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV’08). London, UK, 8-11 July 2008.

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Scharff, C and Neak, L. Students as Partners and Students as Mentors: An Educational Model for Quality Assurance in Global Software Development. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD’08). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Zurich, Switzerland, 3-4 July 2008.

Gotel, O., Scharff, C. and Wildenberg, A. Teaching Software Quality Assurance by Encouraging Student Contributions to an Open Source Web-based System for the Assessment of Programming Assignments. In Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE’08). Madrid, Spain, 30 June – 2 July 2008.

Gotel, O.C.Z. and Morris, S.J. Macro-Level Traceability via Media Transformations. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ’08). Montpellier, France, 16-17 June 2008.

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Say, M., Scharff, C., Sunetnanta, T., Touch, S. and Des, P. Quality-Driven Competition: Uniting Undergraduates, Graduates and Professionals on Global Software Development Projects. In Proceedings 21st Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET’08) – Workshop on The Roles of Student Projects and Work Experience in Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate Programmes. Charleston, South Carolina, USA, April 14-17 2008.

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Neak, L. and Scharff, C. Working Across Borders: Overcoming Culturally-Based Technology Challenges in Student Global Software Development. In Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET’08). Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 14-17 April 2008.

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Neak, L. and Scharff, C. Keeping Software Engineering Education Up-to-date with Globally Distributed Software Development and Delivery, 12th Annual NCIIA Meeting (National Collegiates Inventors and Innovators Alliance), Dallas, Texas, USA, 19-22 March 2008 (Abstract only - non-archival).

Gotel, O. and Scharff, C. Putting Requirements and Quality at the Core of Global Service Delivery: Current Efforts and Future Plans at Pace University. In Hefley, B. and Murphy, W. (eds.) Service Science, Management and Engineering Education for the 21st Century (Book Series: Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy). Springer, January 2008 (ISBN: 978-0-387-76577-8). (Conference Paper Reprint.)

Gotel, O.C.Z., Marchese, F.T. and Morris, S.J. On Requirements Visualization. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization (REV’07).New Delhi, India: IEEE Computer Society, 15-19 October 2007.

Smith, R. and Gotel, O. RE-O-POLY: A Game to Introduce Lightweight Requirements Engineering Good Practices. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET’07). New Delhi, India, 15-19 October 2007.

Smith, R. and Gotel, O. Using a Game to Introduce Lightweight Requirements Engineering. In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'07). New Delhi, India, 15-19 October 2007, pp. 379-380.

Delgadillo, L. and Gotel, O. Story-Wall: A Concept for Lightweight Requirements Management. In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'07), New Delhi, India, 15-19 October 2007, pp. 377-378.

Gotel, O. and Scharff, C. Using Ecliple Aroung the Curriculum and Around the Globe, Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSCE) 2007, October 10-12, 2007, Patchogue, NY, USA (Abstract and Poster only.)

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Neak, L. and Scharff, C. The Role of Wiki Technology in Student Global Software Development: Are All Students Ready?, Wiki for Software Engineering (Wiki4SE) 2007, Montreal, Canada, October 2007.

Gotel, O., Scharff, C. and Wildenberg, A. Extending and Contributing to an Open-Source Web-Based Assessment System for the Automated Assessment of Programming Problems. In Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on the Principles and Practices of Programming in Java (PPPJ’07). Lisbon, Portugal, 5-7 September 2007.

Gotel, O. and Leip, D. Agile Software Development Meets Corporate Deployment Procedures: Stretching the Agile Envelope. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and eXtreme Programming (XP’07). Como, Italy, June 18-22, 2007. Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4536. Sub-library: Programming and Software Engineering. Concas, G., Damiani, E., Scotto, M. and Succi, G. (eds.) Springer, 2007 (ISBN: 978-3-540-73100-9).

Morris, S.J. and Gotel, O.C.Z. Model or mould ? A challenge for better traceability. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Modeling in Software Engineering (MISE’07), International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE Workshop). Minneapolis, Minnesota, 20-26 May 2007. IEEE Computer Society, SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering.

Gotel, O. and Scharff, C. Adapting an Open-Source Web-Based Assessment System for the Automated Assessment of Programming Problems. In Proceedings of the 6th IASTED International Conference on Web-based Education(WBE’07), International Association of Science and Technology for Development). Chamonix, France, 30-31 March 2007.

Gotel, O.C.Z. and Morris, S.J. From farm to fork or a bite of the unknown: Learning from the food industry. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Grand Challenges in Traceability (GCT’07), Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering. Lexington, Kentucky, 22-23 March 2007.

Gotel, O., Kulkarni, V., Neak, L., Scharff, C. and Seng, S. Introducing Global Supply Chains into Software Engineering Education. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Software Engineering Approaches For Offshore and Outsourced Development (SEAFOOD’07). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4716, pp. 44-58. Springer, Zurich, Switzerland, 5-6 February 2007.

Gotel, O. Scharff, C. and Seng, S. Preparing Computer Science Students for Global Software Development, The 36th AnnualFrontiers in Education Conference. Borders: International, Social and Cultural (FIE 2006), San Diego, California, 28-31 October 2006.

Gotel, O. and Scharff, C. “Putting Requirements and Quality at the Core of Global Service Delivery: Current Efforts and Future Plans at Pace University”. Service Sciences Management and Engineering Education for the 21st Century Summit (SSME 2006), IBM Palisades, New York, USA, October 5-7, 2006. Appears as book chapter in: Hefley, B. and Murphy, W. (eds.) Service Science, Management and Engineering Education for the 21st Century (Book Series: Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy). Springer, January 2008 (ISBN: 978-0-387-76577-8).

Gotel, O.C.Z. and Morris, S.J. Crafting the Requirements Record with the Informed Use of Media, Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Requirements Engineering: Beyond Mere Descriptions (in conjunction with the 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference), Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, September 12th, 2006.

Morris, S. and Gotel, O. Flow Diagrams: Rise and Fall of the First Software Engineering Notation. Proc. 4th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams (Diagrams’06), Stanford, USA, 2006 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4045, Springer-Verlag).

Baldwin, J., Wildenberg, A., Crupi, E., Estrallado, T., Gotel, O., Kline, R. and Scharff, C., Examples of WeBWorK Programming Assignments. Proceedings SIGCSE 2006, Houston, Texas, March 2006.

Scharff, C., Gotel, O., Amzad, I. and Seng, S., Injecting Offshore Outsourcing into the CS/IS Curriculum. Proceedings SIGCSE 2006, Houston, Texas, March 2006.

Gotel, O., In Search of the System Concept, (Requirements Expert Column), IEEE Software, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp. 102-103, Jan-Feb 2006.

Gotel, O., Scharff, C., and Seng, S. Incubating the Next Generation of Offshore Outsourcing Entrepreneurs. Proceedings of the 2005 Oklahoma Symposium on Information Technology and Entrepreneurship (ITE'05), Oklahoma, USA, April 2005.

Grossman, F., Bergin, J., Leip, D., Merritt, S. and Gotel, O., One XP Experience: Introducing Agile (XP) Software Development into a Culture that is Willing but not Ready, Proceedings of CASCON 2004, Markham, Ontario, Canada, pp. 242-254, October 4-7, 2004.

Before Pace:

Gotel, O. C. Z., Requirements Traceability, BT/Oxford University Research Initiative Report, Centre for Requirements and Foundations, Oxford University, UK, December 1992.

Gotel, O. C. Z. and Finkelstein A. C. W., An Analysis of the Requirements Traceability Problem, Technical Report TR-93-41, Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London, UK, August 1993.

Gotel, O. C. Z. and Finkelstein A. C. W., An Analysis of the Requirements Traceability Problem, Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE '94), IEEE Computer Society Press, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, pp. 94-101, April 18-22 1994 (shortened version of the above). Also appears in Chapter 2 of the following book: Bohner, S. A., Software Change Impact Analysis, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 59-66, 1996. [Conference slides] ***Most Influential RE Paper Award received at RE2004!***

Gotel, O. C. Z. and Finkelstein A. C. W., Modelling the Contribution Structure Underlying Requirements, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation of Software Quality (REFSQ '94), Utrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 71-81, June 6-7 1994. [Workshop slides]

Gotel, O. C. Z. and Finkelstein A. C. W., Making Requirements Elicitation Traceable, Collected Papers of the Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Software-Based Systems (RESS '94), University of Keele, UK, July 1994. [Workshop slides]

Gotel, O. C. Z., Contribution Structures for Requirements Traceability, Position Statements of the Inaugural Meeting of IFIP Working Group 2.9 (Software Requirements Engineering), Bramshill, Hampshire, UK, March 23-25 1995. [Slides from a talk on the subject given to the BCS]

Gotel, O. C. Z. and Finkelstein A. C. W., Contribution Structures, Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE '95), IEEE Computer Society Press, York, UK, pp. 100-107, March 27-29 1995. [Conference slides]

Gotel, O. C. Z., Contribution Structures for Requirements Traceability, Ph.D. Thesis, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, August 1995. [Early transfer slides; appendices are available only by request]

Gotel, O. C. Z. and Finkelstein A. C. W., Revisiting Requirements Production, Software Engineering Journal, Volume 11, pp. 166-182, May 1996.

Gotel, O. C. Z. and Finkelstein A. C. W., Extended Requirements Traceability: A Framework for Changing Requirements, Collected Papers of the Workshop on Requirements Engineering in a Changing World, CAiSE '96, Heraklion, Crete, May 20-24 1996. [Workshop slides]

Gotel, O. C. Z. and Finkelstein A. C. W., The Contribution Structures of Networked Organisations, Collected Papers of the Workshop on Requirements Engineering in and for Networked Organisations, WET-ICE '96, Palo Alto, California, USA, June 19-21 1996. [Workshop slides]

Gotel, O. C. Z. and Finkelstein A. C. W., Extended Requirements Traceability: Lessons form an Industrial Case Study, Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE '97), IEEE Computer Society Press, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, pp. 169-178, January 6-10 1997. [Conference slides]

Gotel, O. C. Z. and Finkelstein A. C. W., Extending Requirements Traceability Through Contribution Structures, Submitted as Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, City University, London, UK, 1997.

Note - I had problems retrieving some of these original files - although the downloads contain the content, some of the formatting and figures have been lost, and the page numbers don't quite work anymore - apologies!

UK Government classified publications

I did lots of interesting stuff whilst I was at DERA - unfortunately I can't tell you about most of it! I did manage to write quite a few papers over the years too (on topics other than requirements traceability this time), but these were prepared for the UK MoD. They are not available in the public domain at present.

Without revealing domain information, some of the areas in which I carried out research and gave direct project support are listed below ...

Systems requirements engineering

Requirements determination and specification for military capabilities and systems - generally "brown-field" situations and standards-driven (as opposed to "green-field" feasibility studies).
The introduction of participative and iterative approaches to requirements engineering.
Paradigms for improving requirements understanding across communities, based on systems thinking.
The use of enterprise, organisational and process modelling to inform Command, Control and Intelligence, Communications and Information Systems requirements and constraints.

Systems engineering and procurement

• The fundamental issues associated with engineering complex systems of systems (i.e. procurement for complex capabilities).
• Systems of systems integration architectures - to support digitisation of the battlespace and related projects.
• Modelling of the procurement process, stage gates and decision points - to assess implications for systems engineering and information management with the move from Downey to Smart procurement.
• Initial development of a novel Systems Engineering analysis and development approach (which combines elements of more traditional approaches with an appreciation of the existing "brown-field" systems capabilities and an understanding of existing or near future technological capabilities) - to promote a disciplined approach to system concept studies.

Information and knowledge management

• The development of a multi-perspective framework for characterising generic and specific information/knowledge-related issues and problems - to identify opportunities for immediate resolution, future research and development needs, and strategy/policy in this area.
• The development of a taxonomy of mediated information supply and demand control models, the development of concepts for information service provision from these control models, and an analysis of military operational requirements for information dissemination - to develop the high level requirements for a military information dissemination management system and a model of an operational architecture - in turn, to inform systems evaluation, procurement and tailoring.
• Approaches to the dynamic determination of battlespace information requirements and dissemination management policies over hybrid communication networks.
• The definition and visualisation of multi-dimensional metadata for information management - one of the objectives being to enable the structuring of complex information sets into seperable and manipulable domain-oriented viewpoints, to assist in: a) the generation of operational picture compilation; b) the generation of military situational awareness for operational, logistics and other planning purposes; and c) decision making support.