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Professor Pete Sawyer

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. Published

    Known and unknown requirements in healthcare

    Sutcliffe, A., Sawyer, P., Stringer, G., Couth, S., Brown, L. J. E., Gledson, A., Bull, C., Rayson, P., Keane, J., Zeng, X. & Leroi, I., 1/03/2020, In: Requirements Engineering . 25, 1, p. 1-20 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  2. Published

    Making Tacit Requirements Explicit

    Gacitua, R., Ma, L., Nuseibeh, B., Piwek, P., de Roek, A., Rouncefield, M. & Sawyer, P., 09/2010, Second International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK), 2009 . IEEE, p. 40-44 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  3. Unpublished

    Managing Process Inconsistency Using Viewpoints

    Sommerville, I. & Sawyer, P., 01/1999, (Unpublished) In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 25, 6, p. 784-799 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Managing Testing Complexity in Dynamically Adaptive Systems: A Model-Driven Approach

    Welsh, K. & Sawyer, P., 2010, ICSTW '10: Proceedings of the 2010 Third International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation Workshops. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 290-298 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  5. Unpublished

    Maturing Requirements Engineering Process Maturity Models

    Sawyer, P., 04/2004, (Unpublished) EPRINTS-BOOK-TITLE. Maté, J. & Silva, A. (eds.).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  6. Published

    Migrating to SOAs by way of hybrid systems

    Hutchinson, J., Kotonya, G., Walkerdine, J., Sawyer, P., Dobson, G. & Onditi, V., 01/2008, In: IT Professional. 10, 1, p. 34-42 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    Modeling personalised adaptive systems

    Sutcliffe, A. & Sawyer, P., 2013, Advanced Information Systems Engineering: 25th International Conference, CAiSE 2013, Valencia, Spain, June 17-21, 2013. Proceedings. Salinesi, C., Norrie, M. C. & Pastor, Ó. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 178-192 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7908).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  8. Published

    Monitoring dementia with automatic eye movements analysis

    Zhang, Y., Wilcockson, T., Kim, K. I., Crawford, T. J., Gellersen, H-W. G. & Sawyer, P. H., 18/06/2016, Intelligent Decision Technologies 2016: Proceedings of the 8th KES International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT 2016) – Part II. Czarnowski, I., Caballero, A. M., Howlett, R. J. & Jain, L. C. (eds.). Springer, p. 299-309 11 p. (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies; vol. 57).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  9. Published

    Object database evolution using separation of concerns

    Rashid, A. & Sawyer, P., 2000, ACM SIGMM Records, 29, 4, p. 26-33 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to specialist publicationLetter

  10. Published

    Oculomotor and inhibitory control in dyslexia

    Wilcockson, T., Mardanbegi, D., Sawyer, P. H., Gellersen, H-W. G., Xia, B. & Crawford, T. J., 8/01/2019, In: Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 12, 10 p., 66.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    On the Effectiveness of Abstraction Identification in Requirements Engineering

    Gacitua, R., Sawyer, P. & Gervasi, V., 2010, RE '10: Proceedings of the 2010 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 5-14 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  12. Published

    Ontology and Model Alignment as a Means for Requirements Validation

    Kof, L., Gacitua, R., Rouncefield, M. & Sawyer, P., 2010, ICSC '10: Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Fourth International Conference on Semantic Computing. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 46-51 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  13. Published

    Ontology-aided Translation in the Comparison of Candidate Service Quality

    Zachos, K., Dobson, G. & Sawyer, P., 2008, SOCCER '08: Proceedings of the 2008 International Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing Consequences for Engineering Requirements. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 30-37 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  14. Unpublished

    Packaged Software: Challenges for RE

    Sawyer, P., 06/2000, (Unpublished).

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Other

  15. Published

    Process Viewpoints

    Sommerville, I., Kotonya, G., Viller, S. & Sawyer, P., 1995, Software Process Technology 4th European Workshop, EWSPT'95 Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, April 3–5, 1995 Proceedings. Schäfer, W. (ed.). Berlin: Springer Verlag, p. 2-8 7 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 913).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  16. Published

    Profiling and Tracing Stakeholder Needs

    Sawyer, P., Gacitua, R. & Stone, A., 2008, INNOVATIONS FOR REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS. FROM STAKEHOLDERS’ NEEDS TO FORMAL DESIGNS. 5320 ed. Springer-Verlag, p. 196-213 18 p. (LNCS).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  17. Published

    Reflective Component-based Technologies to Support Dynamic Variability

    Bencomo, N., Blair, G. S., Flores, C. & Sawyer, P., 01/2008. 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  18. Published

    RELAX: A Language to Address Uncertainty in Self-Adaptive Systems Requirements

    Whittle, J., Sawyer, P., Bencomo, N. & Cheng, B. H. C., 2010, In: Requirements Engineering . 15, 2, p. 177-196 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    RELAX: Incorporating Uncertainty into the Specification of Self-Adaptive Systems

    Whittle, J., Sawyer, P., Bencomo, N., Cheng, B. H. C. & Bruel, J-M., 2009, Proceedings of the 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE '09) . IEEE Publishing, p. 79-88 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  20. Published

    Relaxing Claims: Coping With Uncertainty While Evaluating Assumptions at Run Time

    Ramirez, A., H.C. Cheng, B., Bencomo, N. & Sawyer, P., 1/09/2012, Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems 15th International Conference, MODELS 2012, Innsbruck, Austria, September 30–October 5, 2012. Proceedings. France, R. B., Kazmeier, J., Breu, R. & Atkinson, C. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 53-69 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7590).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  21. Published

    Relevance-based abstraction identification: technique and evaluation

    Gacitua, R., Sawyer, P. & Gervasi, V., 09/2011, In: Requirements Engineering . 16, 3, p. 251-265 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Requirements elicitation: towards the unknown unknowns

    Sutcliffe, A. & Sawyer, P., 2013, Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE’13). Piscataway, N.J.: IEEE, p. 92-104 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  23. Published

    Requirements engineering: a good practice guide

    Sommerville, I. & Sawyer, P., 1997, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 391 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  24. Published

    Requirements Process Establishment and Improvement from the Viewpoint of Cybernetics.

    Sawyer, P., Sommerville, I. & Xu, H., 16/06/2006, In: Journal of Systems and Software. 79, 11, p. 1504-1513 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Requirements reflection: requirements as runtime entities

    Bencomo, N., Whittle, J., Sawyer, P., Finkelstein, A. & Letier, E., 05/2010, ICSE '10 Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2. New York: ACM, p. 199-202 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  26. Published

    Requirements tracing to support change in dynamically adaptive systems

    Welsh, K. & Sawyer, P., 2009, Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 15th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 8-9, 2009 Proceedings. Glinz, M. & Heymans, P. (eds.). Berlin: Springer-Verlag, p. 59-73 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 5512).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  27. Published

    Requirements-Aware Systems: A Research Agenda for RE for Self-adaptive Systems

    Sawyer, P., Bencomo, N., Whittle, J., Letier, E. & Finkelstein, A., 2010, Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE '10). Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 95-103 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  28. Published

    REVERE: support for requirements synthesis from documents

    Sawyer, P., Rayson, P. & Garside, R., 09/2002, In: Information Systems Frontiers . 4, 3, p. 343-353 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    Revisiting goal-oriented models for self-aware systems-of-systems

    Cavalcante, E., Batista, T., Bencomo, N. & Sawyer, P. H., 7/07/2015, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2015. IEEE, p. 231-234 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  30. Published

    Revisiting the Relationship between Software Architecture and Requirements: the case of Dynamically Adaptive Systems

    Bencomo, N., Grace, P. & Sawyer, P., 2009. 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paper

  31. Published

    Run-time resolution of uncertainty

    Welsh, K., Sawyer, P. & Bencomo, N., 1/05/2011, Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2011 19th IEEE International. IEEE, p. 355-356 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  32. Published

    Satisfying requirements for pervasive service compositions

    Sawyer, P., Cavallaro, L., Sykes, D., Bencomo, N. & Issarny, V., 2012. 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  33. Published

    Self-explanation in adaptive systems

    Bencomo, N., Welsh, K., Sawyer, P. & Whittle, J., 2012, ICECCS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 17th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems. IEEE, p. 157-166 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  34. Published

    Self-explanation in adaptive systems based on runtime goal-based models

    Welsh, K., Bencomo, N., Sawyer, P. & Whittle, J., 2014, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XVI. Kowalczyk, R. & Nguyen, N. T. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 122-145 24 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  35. Published

    Service-Centric Systems and Requirements Engineering

    Baresi, L., Maiden, N. & Sawyer, P., 2008, RE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 16th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 305 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  36. Published

    Shallow Knowledge as an Aid to Deep Understanding in Early-Phase Requirements Engineering

    Sawyer, P., Rayson, P. & Cosh, K., 11/2005, In: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. 31, 11, p. 969-981 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  37. Published

    Sociologists can be surprisingly useful in interactive systems design

    Sommerville, I., Rodden, T., Sawyer, P. & Bentley, R., 1993, People and computers VII : proceedings of HCI 92, York, September 1992. Monk, A., Diaper, D. & Harrison, M. D. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 342-354 13 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  38. Published

    Software Requirements Engineering

    Kotonya, G. & Sawyer, P., 12/1999, In: Forum for Advance Software Engineering Education. 9, 12

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  39. Published

    Specifying and Constructing a Fault-Tolerant Composite Service

    Onditi, V., Dobson, G., Hutchinson, J., Walkerdine, J. & Sawyer, P., 11/2008, IEEE Sixth European Conference on Web Services, 2008. ECOWS '08. . Dublin: IEEE, p. 135-142 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  40. Unpublished

    Supporting MEASUR-driven analysis using NLP tools

    Sawyer, P. & Cosh, K., 06/2004, (Unpublished).

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Other

  41. Published

    Systematic Change Impact Determination in Complex Object Database Schemata

    Lock, S., Rashid, A., Sawyer, P. & Kotonya, G., 1999, Proceedings of the Workshop on Object-Oriented Technology. Moreira, A. M. D. & Demeyer, S. (eds.). London: Springer, p. 31-40 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  42. Published

    The case for dumb requirements engineering tools

    Berry, D., Gacitua, R., Sawyer, P. & Tjong, S. F., 2012, Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality 18th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2012, Essen, Germany, March 19-22, 2012. Proceedings. Regnell, B. & Damian, D. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 211-217 7 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 7195).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  43. Published

    The REVERE project: Experiments with the application of probabilistic NLP to systems engineering

    Rayson, P., Emmet, L., Garside, R. & Sawyer, P., 1/01/2001, Natural Language Processing and Information Systems - 5th International Conference on Applicationsof Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2000, Revised Papers. Springer-Verlag, p. 288-300 13 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 1959).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  44. Published

    Towards requirements aware systems: Run-time resolution of design-time assumptions

    Welsh, K., Sawyer, P. & Bencomo, N., 2011, ASE '11: Proceedings of the 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 560-563 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  45. Published

    Tracing requirements for adaptive systems using claims

    Welsh, K., Bencomo, N. & Sawyer, P., 2011, TEFSE '11: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering. New York, NY, USA: ACM, p. 38-41 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  46. Unpublished

    Tracing the distribution concern: Bridging the Gap

    Bencomo, N., Blair, G. S. & Sawyer, P., 10/2004, (Unpublished)

    Research output: Other contribution

  47. Published

    Understanding the Scope of Uncertainty in Dynamically Adaptive Systems

    Welsh, K. & Sawyer, P., 1/06/2010, Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality 16th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2010, Essen, Germany, June 30–July 2, 2010. Proceedings. Wieringa, R. & Persson, A. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 2-16 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 6182).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  48. Published

    Unknown knowns: Tacit knowledge in requirements engineering

    Sawyer, P., Gervasi, V. & Nuseibeh, B., 2011, RE '11: Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 19th International Requirements Engineering Conference. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, p. 329 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  49. Published

    Unpacking tacit knowledge for requirements engineering

    Gervasi, V., Gacitua, R., Rouncefield, M., Sawyer, P., Kof, L., Li, M., Piwek, P., De Roeck, A., Willis, A., Hui, Y. & Nuseibeh, B., 2013, Managing requirements knowledge. Maalej, W. & Thurimella, A. K. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 23-47 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)

  50. Published

    Using Constraint Programming to Manage Configurations in Self-Adaptive Systems

    Sawyer, P., Mazo, R., Diaz, D., Salinesi, C. & Hughes, D., 10/2012, In: IEEE Computer. 45, 10, p. 56-63 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

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