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: “Investigating Advances in the Acquisition of Systems Based on Open Architecture and Open Source Software” with Walt Scacchi and Hazel Asuncion, selected for funding for 2009-10 through the Naval Postgraduate School.
: “The Role of Software Licenses in Open Architecture Ecosystems”, position paper with Hazel Asuncion and Walt Scacchi, published in the proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Software Ecosystems (IWSECO'09).
: “Heterogeneously-Licensed System Requirements, Acquisition, and Governance”, position paper and poster with Walt Scacchi, presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Requirements Engineering and Law at the International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE'09).
: “Intellectual Property Rights Requirements for Heterogeneously-Licensed Systems”, with Hazel Asuncion and Walt Scacchi, presented at the International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE'09). This year's acceptance rate was 21%.
FLOSSʹ09: Position paper (4 pages) “Analyzing Software Licenses in Open Architecture Software Systems” with Hazel Asuncion and Walt Scacchi, presented at the Second International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Free / Libre / Open Source Software Research and Development (FLOSS’09) at ICSE.
ARS'09: Preliminary position paper “Software Licenses, Open Source Components, and Open Architectures ”, with Hazel Asuncion and Walt Scacchi, presented at the Naval Postgraduate School's 6th Acquisition Research Symposium.
NPS funding: “Investigating the Acquisition of Software Systems that Rely on Open Architecture and Open Source Software” with Walt Scacchi, funded for 2008-09 through the Naval Postgraduate School.

2008

MEREʹ08: “Articulating Requirements Comic Book Style”, an examination of this alternative modality for software requirements and its cognitive advantages with Amanda M. Williams, published in the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Multimedia and Enjoyable Requirements Engineering (MEREʹ08) at REʹ08.
REʹ08: “Marginal Notes on Amethodical Requirements Engineering: What experts learned from experience”, with Susan E. Sim, and Ban Al-Ani, published in the proceedings of the 16th International Requirements Engineering Conference (REʹ08).
ADS V chapter (2008): “Toward Architecture Evaluation Through Ontology-based Requirements-level Scenarios”, based on my Ph.D. student Mamadou H. Diallo's planned dissertation research, published as a chapter of Springer's Architecting Dependable Systems V.
ARSʹ08: “Emerging Issues in the Acquisition of Open Source Software by the U.S. Department of Defense” with Walt Scacchi, presented at the Naval Postgraduate School's Fifth Annual Acquisition Research Symposium.
NPS funding: “Investigating The Acquisition and Requirements for Software Systems that Rely on Open Architecture and Open Source Software” with Walt Scacchi, funded for 2007-08 through the Naval Postgraduate School.
IST 2008: “Scenario Support for Effective Requirements” with Annie Antón, published in Information and Software Technology 50(3), Feb. 2008.

2007

GTAC 2007: “Specification-based Testing” by my Ph.D. student Kristina Winbladh and collaborator Dr. Hadar Ziv, presented at the Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC 2007) and posted to YouTube.
Chancellor's Award: I received the 2007 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research (ICS). Student researcher Jovel Crisostomo received the corresponding Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research for her work with me entitled “Two-Tier Requirements Documentation” which she presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium.
CEREʹ07: “Clarity for Stakeholders: Empirical Evaluation of ScenarioML, Use Cases, and Sequence Diagrams” with Susan E. Sim, Kristina Winbladh, Mamadou Diallo, Hadar Ziv, and Debra J. Richardson, presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Comparative Evaluation in Requirements Engineering (CEREʹ07).
SEKEʹ07: “In the Requirements Lies the Power” with Rand Waltzman, Kristina Winbladh, and Debra J. Richardson, published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKEʹ07).
WEASELTechʹ07: “Case Study, Interrupted: The Paucity of Subject Systems that Span the Requirements-Architecture Gap“ with Mamadou Diallo and Susan E. Sim, presented at the First Workshop on Empirical Assessment of Software Engineering Languages and Technologies (WEASELTechʹ07).
ROSATEAʹ07: “Evaluating Software Architectures Against Requirements-level Scenarios” with Mamadou H. Diallo, Leila Naslavsky, Hadar Ziv, and Debra J. Richardson, presented at the Third International Workshop on the Role of Software Architecture for Testing and Analysis (ROSATEAʹ07).

2006

Eclipse Innovation Award: “The Scenario Workbench: Semantic editing and transformation of scenarios” funded for 2006-07 by IBM.
JSS 2006: “An architectural pattern for non-functional dependability requirements” with Lihua Xu, Hadar Ziv, and Debra J. Richardson, published in Journal of Systems and Software 79(10).
ASEʹ06: “An Automated Approach for Goal-driven, Specification-based Testing” with Kristina Winbladh, Hadar Ziv, and Debra J. Richardson, published in the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2006).
CEREʹ06: “On a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of a Social-Agent Scenario Visualization” with Eric Baumer and Bill Tomlinson, presented at the Fourth International Workshop on Comparative Evaluation in Requirements Engineering (CEREʹ06).
SOFTVISʹ06: “Using Social Agents to Visualize Software Scenarios” with Bill Tomlinson and Eric Baumer, published in the proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Software Visualization (SOFTVISʹ06). Here is the movie.
ROSATEAʹ06: “Architecture-based Testing Using Goals and Plans” with Kristina Winbladh, Hadar Ziv, and Debra J. Richardson, presented at the Second International Workshop on the Role of Software Architecture for Testing and Analysis (ROSATEAʹ06).
REFSQʹ06: “A Comparative Evaluation of Three Approaches to Specifying Security Requirements” with Mamadou H. Diallo, Jose Romero-Mariona, Susan E. Sim, and Debra J. Richardson, published in the proceedings of the 12th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQʹ06).
AIIDEʹ06: “Normative Echoes: use and manipulation of player generated content by communities of NPCs” with Eric Baumer, Bill Tomlinson, and Man Lok Yau, published in the proceedings of the Second Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE-06). Here is the movie.
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