Professor Neil Maiden
Position: Head of Centre
Email: N.A.M.Maiden @ city.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7040 8412
Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8859
Room: A205 College building
Biography
Neil is the Head of Centre, Professor of Systems Engineering and Deputy Dean of School of Informatics. He is principal investigator on the S-CUBE, APOSDLE and TRACEBACK projects, and was principal investigator on the earlier SeCSE, VANTAGE, SARA, NATS-EASM, BANKSEC, CREWS, GOMOSCE, ISRE, RESCUE, RESCUE-DMAN, SERPS and SIMP projects (total value over £17.5m). He has supervised the PhD of Kos, Cornelius, Marina and Kulwinder. His main research interests are requirements engineering, socio-technical systems design, scenario-driven approaches and creativity in design. Neil is co-founder and organiser of the BCS Requirements Engineering Specialist Group. He was Programme Chair for RE'04, was founder and programme chair of EMRPS99, co-chair of REP99, and has sat on numerous programme committees - RE'97, RE'99, RE'01, RE'02, RE'03, RE'05, RE'06, RE'07, RE'08, RE'09, ASE'99, CAiSE00, CAiSE01, CAiSE02, CAiSE03, CAiSE04, CAiSE05, CAiSE06, CAiSE07, CAiSE08, ICSE'04, ICSOC'05, ICSOC'06 and ASE'05. He is on the editorial Boards of the IEEE Software and the Requirements Engineering Journal, he is the Editor of IEEE Software's Requirements Column, and was on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering from 2004-2008. Neil is co-founder of City University's Interdisciplinary Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice.
At RE'08 Neil received the award for the most influential paper reported in the requirements conference (ICRE'98) 10 years earlier for the paper: Maiden N.A.M. & Ncube C., 1998, 'Acquiring Requirements for Commercial Off-The-Shelf Package Selection', IEEE Software, 15(2), 46-56. The vote was undertaken by peers in the community, and reflects the value in the work identified by the requirements engineering community. Another of Neil's papers was identified by IEEE Software as a top pick for recommended reading amongst 35 articles that, in the committee's own words, represented the best of the 1200 published paper over the last 25 years. It was 'Provoking Creativity: Imagine What Your Requirements Could be Like', by Neil Maiden, Suzanne Robertson and Alexis Gizikis, and published in IEEE Software in September/October 2004 21(5), 68-75.
Key publications
Zachos K. & Maiden N.A.M., 2008, 'Inventing Requirements from Software: An Empirical Investigation with Web Services', Proceedings 16th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, 145-154.
Grau G., Franch X. & Maiden N.A.M., 2008, 'PRiM: an i*-based Process Reengineering Method for Information Systems Specification', Information & Software Technology 50(1-2), 76-100.
Maiden N.A.M., Ncube C. & Robertson S., 2007, 'Can Requirements Be Creative? Experiences with an Enhanced Air Space Management System', Proceedings 28th International Conference on Software Engineering, ACM Press, 632-641.
Zachos K., Maiden N.A.M. & Tosar A., 2005, 'Rich Media Scenarios for Discovering Requirements', IEEE Software, 22(5), 89-07.
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Maiden N.A.M. & Robertson S., 2005, 'Developing Use Cases and Scenarios in the Requirements Process', Proceedings 26th International Conference on Software Engineering, ACM Press.
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Maiden N., Robertson S. & Gizikis A., 2004, 'Provoking Creativity: Imagine What Your Requirements Could be Like', IEEE Software, September/October 2004 21(5), 68-75.
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Alexander I. & Maiden N.A.M. (Eds), 2004, 'Scenarios, Stories and Use Cases', John Wiley.
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Mavin A. & Maiden N.A.M., 2003, 'Determining Socio-Technical Systems Requirements: Experiences with Generating and Walking Through Scenarios', Proceedings 11th International Conference on Requirements Engineering, IEEE COmputer Society Press, 213-222.