Department of Computing

Andrea Zisman

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Room: A309
Department of Computing
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB

A.Zisman@soi.city.ac.uk
tel: +44 20 7040 8346
fax: +44 20 7040 0244

Short Biography

Andrea Zisman is a reader in the Department of Computing, part of the School of Informatics at City University, and a member of the Software Engineering research group in this department. Andrea holds a BSc degree in Computer Science (Catholic University of Pernambuco, Brazil, graduated Magna Cum Laude), a MSc degree in Applied Mathematics to Computer Science (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, thesis received higher honours), and a PhD degree in Computer Science (Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK).

Andrea's research interests lie in the areas of automated software engineering and automated support of distributed data. More specifically, she has been research active in the areas of consistency management of distributed documents and software artefacts, validation of multi-stakeholders distributed systems, traceability of software artefacts, interoperability of distributed heterogeneous database systems, XML applications, and more recently in service-oriented computing. Her research has contributed to the development of a number of research prototypes and industrial tools.   Andrea has been principal and co-investigators in various research projects including, EU integrated project (F6-IST) SeCSE - Service-Centric System Engineering (2004-2008), Handling Inconsistencies in Distributed Software Engineering Documents (EPSRC research project, 2001-2002), NEVIS (funded by CSW Group Ltd, 2004), Requirements Traceability (funded by Philips Research Labs-UK, 2001-2002), Software traceability for Product Family Systems (2002-2006), Software Traceability for Agent-Oriented Systems (2002-2006), WAICENT Information Bus (funded by United Nations - FAO, 2002), and OpenModel Project (2003-present). Currently, she is the supervisor of three research students, second-supervisor of three research students, and co-supervisor of two research assistants. For more information about these projects please see research page .

Andrea has served on the organisation and programme committees of several international conferences and workshops, and has acted as a reviewer for various international journals. She is the Research Demonstrations Co-Chair for ICSE 2010 and the Poster and Research Demos Co-Chair for RE 2009. She was the programme committee co-chair of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2005). She has co-founded the International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Requirements Engineering (TEFSE), the International Workshop on Service Oriented Software Engineering (IWSOSWE), and the International Workshop on Intelligent Technologies for Software Engineering (WITSE), and has been the Doctoral Symposium co-chair for ASE 2004, and Poster and Research Demo chair for RE 2004. She has co-edited a special issue of the International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering on software traceability. Currently, she is a member of the following programme committes: RE 2009, ASE 2008, ICSOC 2008, SOCCER 2008, ARAMIS 2008, IWSSA 2008, SEKE 2008, ICSOFT 2008, GovSOS 2008, REFS 2008, TavWeb 2008 (for a complete list please see profile).

Andrea has given tutorials and invited talks in several institutions and international conferences and workshops, and has also taugh commercial courses in several organisations. She is a member of the ACM, associated member of the IEE, a member of the Requirements Engineering Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, and member of XML UK.

Key Publications

  • A. Zisman, J. Dooley, G. Spanoudakis. A Framework for Dynamic Service Discovery, 23rd IEEE/ACM International Automated Software Engineering Conference (ASE ’08), L'Aquila, Italy, September 2008 (acceptance ratio: 12%).
     
  • A. Zisman, K. Mahbub, and G. Spanoudakis. A Service Discovery Framework based on Linear Composition, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2007), USA, July 2007 (acceptance ratio: 20%).
     
  • G. Spanoudakis, K. Mahbub, and A. Zisman. A Platform for Context-Aware Run-time Service Discovery, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2007), USA, July 2007 (acceptance ratio: 18%).
     
  • A. Zisman and G. Spanoudakis. UML-based Service Discovery Framework, 4th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2006, Chicago, December 2006 (acceptance ratio: 16%).
     
  • G. Spanoudakis, A. Zisman and A. Kozlenkov. A Service Discovery Framework for Service Centric Systems, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005), Florida, USA, July 2005 (acceptance ratio: 18.75%).
     
  • R.J. Hall and A. Zisman. Behavioral Models as Service Descriptions, 2nd International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2004, New York, November 2004 (acceptance ratio: 20%).
     
  • R.J. Hall and A. Zisman. Validating Personal Requirements by Assisted Symbolic Behavior Browsing, 19th IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Conference, ASE 2004, Austria, September 2004 (acceptance ratio: 13.44%).
     
  • A. Kozlenkov and A. Zisman. Discovering, Recording, and Handling Inconsistencies in Software Specifications, International Journal of Computer and Information Science, 5(2), pp 89-108, June, 2004.
     
  • R.J. Hall and A. Zisman. OMML: A Behavioural Model Interchange Format. 12th IEEE International Conference in Requirements Engineering (RE'2004), Japan, September 2004 (acceptance ratio: 27.4%).
     
  • G. Spanoudakis, A. Zisman, E. Pérez-Miñana, and P. Krause. Rule-based Generation of Requirements Traceability Relations, Journal of Systems and Software, 72(2), pp 105-127, 2004.
     
  • A. Kozlenkov and A. Zisman. Are their Design Specifications Consistent with our Requirements?, IEEE Joint International Requirements Engineering Conference - RE'02, Essen, September 2002.
     

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     sistencies in UML Specifications. Workshop on Scenarios and State Machines: Models, Algorithms, and Tools, ICSE 2002, Orlando, May, 2002.