Prof Neil Maiden

Contact details

Email: N.A.M.Maiden@city.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)20 7040 8412

Room: A205 College building

Position: Head of Centre

Biography

Neil is Professor of Systems Engineering, Head of the Centre for HCI Design and co-founder of the Centre for Creativity in Professional Practice at City University London. He has won and led research worth over £2.5million as part of research projects collectively worth over £35million. He is currently the principal investigator on the CHOReOS, MIRROR and S-CUBE projects, and previously led the APOSDLE, TRACEBACK, SeCSE, VANTAGE, SARA, NATS-EASM, BANKSEC, CREWS, GOMOSCE, ISRE, RESCUE, RESCUE-DMAN, SERPS and SIMP projects. He successfully supervised the doctorates of Dr Konstantinos Zachos, Dr Cornelius Ncube, Dr Marina Krumbholz and Dr Kulwinder Kaur-Deol, and is currently supervising the doctorates of Alastair Milne and Hansjörg von Brevern.

Neil is currently Chair of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference. He was Program Chair for the conference in 2004 and has sat on the program committee since 2001. He is Associate Editor (Requirements) for IEEE Software and edits its Requirements Column, is on the editorial board for the Requirements Engineering Journal, and was on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering from 2004-2008. He was also co-founder of the BCS Requirements Engineering Specialist Group.

Research interests

Neil's principal research is in requirements engineering, socio-technical systems design, design thinking and creativity support tools. Results have been applied in domains ranging from air traffic management and software development to food information traceability and care for people with dementia. Neil has published these results in over 160 peer-reviewed publications. Special recognitions include the award in 2008 for the most influential paper reported in the IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference 10 years earlier, and one of the 35 articles that represented the best of the 1200 published papers over the first 25 years of IEEE Software. A review of requirements publications 1963-2010 at the University of Colorado at Boulder revealed that Neil has had more papers accepted for publication than any other author in the discipline.

Projects

• CHOReOS

• MIRROR

• S-CUBE

• APOSDLE

• TRACEBACK

• SeCSE

• VANTAGE

• SARA

• NATS-EASM

• BANKSEC

• CREWS

• GOMOSCE

• ISRE

• RESCUE

• RESCUE-DMAN

• SERPS

• SIMP

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Alexander I. & Maiden N.A.M. (Eds), 2004, 'Scenarios, Stories and Use Cases', John Wiley.

• 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.