Abstract

Mobile and ubiquitous computing poses significant challenges for software engineering. Amongst these challenges is the identification of quality requirements, particularly those that emerge and change during runtime. Privacy concerns add yet another set of challenges, including their elicitation, specification and analysis. This talk focuses on the study of such privacy concerns, and describes a collection of qualitative empirical studies that attempt to identify them in different mobile computing contexts. The relationship between privacy concerns and privacy requirements will also be discussed, providing a set of future research challenges in this area.

Biography

Bashar Nuseibeh is Professor of Software Engineering and Chief Scientist at Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre. He is also a Professor of Computing at the Open University, UK, where he served as Director of Research (2002-2008), and a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London and the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. Previously he was Head of the Software Engineering Laboratory at Imperial College London. His research interests are in software requirements engineering and design, software process modelling and technology, security and privacy, and technology transfer. He has published over 130 refereed papers and consulted widely with industry, working with organisations such as the UK National Air Traffic Services (NATS), Texas Instruments, Praxis Critical Systems, Philips Research Labs, and NASA. Bashar is Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, and Editor Emeritus of the Automated Software Engineering Journal. He has served as programme chair of ASE98, RE01, and ICSE05, was Chair of the ICSE Steering Committee, and is Chair IFIP Working Group 2.9 (Requirements Engineering). He received a 2002 Philip Leverhulme Prize, an ICSE2003 Most Influential Paper award, a Senior Research Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Leverhulme Trust (2005-2007), and an IFIP Outstanding Service Award in 2009. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of Automated Software Engineering, and he is a Fellow of the BCS and IET, and a Chartered Engineer.