Didar Zowghi’s Publications
Book Chapters
Zowghi, D., and Coulin C., “Requirements Elicitation: A
Survey of Techniques, Approaches, and Tools”, Book Chapter in “Engineering and
Managing Software Requirements” Edited by Aybuke Aurum and Claes Wohlin, Published
by Springer, 2005.
Coulin C., Zowghi
D., "Requirements Elicitation for
Complex Systems: Theory and Practice" in "Requirements Engineering for Sociotechnical
Systems", Edited by José Luis Maté and Andrés Silva and published by Idea
Group, Inc. 2005
Journals
2008
Mu, K., Jin, Z., and Zowghi D., “A Priority-based Negotiations Approach for
Handling Inconsistencies in Multi-perspective Software Requirements”, to be
published in the Journal of Systems Science and Complexity, Vol. 21 No. 4,
2008.
Yusop N., Zowghi D., and Lowe D., “The impact of Non Functional
Requirements in Web System Projects”, the International Journal of Value Chain
Management, Vol 2. No.1: pp. 18-32, 2008.
2007
Zowghi, D. “Ten years of Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering”, Requirements Engineering Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2, Published online 13th February 2007.
McBride T., Henderson-Sellers B., Zowghi D., “Software development as a design or a production project: An empirical study of project monitoring and control”, the Journal of Enterprise Information Management (JEIM), Volume 20 Issue 1: pp. 70-82, 2007.
2006
Davis, A., and Zowghi D., "Good Requirements Practices Are Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient," Viewpoints, Requirements Engineering Journal, Published online: 8 October 2004, Vol. 11 No. 1: 1-3, 2006.
Coulin C., Zowghi
D., and Sahraoui A. E. K., “A Situational
Method Engineering Approach to Requirements Elicitation Workshops in the
Software Development Process”, the Journal of Software Process: Improvement and
Practice (SPIP), 11(5): 451-464 (2006)
Niazi M., Wilson D., and Zowghi D., “Critical Success Factors for Software Process Improvement Implementation: An Empirical Study”, Journal of Software Process Improvements and Practice (SPIP), Volume 11, Issue 2: 193-211, 2006.
2005
Gervasi V., Zowghi D., “Reasoning about Inconsistencies in Natural Language Requirements”, the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) Vol. 14 Issue 3, pp 277-330, July 2005.
Zowghi D., Gervasi V., Guest Editorial for special issue of the International Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering (IJCSSE) on "Automated Tools for Requirements Engineering", Volume 20 Number 1 January 2005.
Yusop N., Lowe, D., and Zowghi D. “Impacts of Web Systems on their Domain”, the Journal of Web Engineering, Vol.4 No.4 pp 313-338, December 1, 2005.
Niazi M., Wilson D., and Zowghi D., "A Framework for Assisting the Design of Effective Software Process Improvement Implementation Strategies", the Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 78(2) pp 204-222, 2005.
Niazi M., Wilson D., and Zowghi D., "A Maturity Model for the Implementation of Software Process Improvement: An Empirical Study", the Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 74(2), pp 155-172, 2005.
2004
Zowghi D., Gervasi V., "On the Interplay Between Consistency, Completeness, and Correctness in Requirements Evolution", ERRATUM, the Journal of Information and Software Technology, Volume 46, Issue 11, pages 763-779, 2004.
Zowghi D., Guest Editorial, Journal of Research and Practice in Information
Technology (JRPIT), special collection on “Requirements Engineering”, Volume
36, Number 4, 2004.
Damian D., Zowghi D., Vaidyanathasamy L.,and Pal Y.," An industrial case study of immediate benefits of requirements engineering process improvement at the Australian Centre for Unisys Software", the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, 9(1-2), pp 45-75, March 2004.
Gervasi V., Zowghi D., Easterbrook S., and Sim S.E.. Report on the first international workshop on comparative evaluation in requirements engineering. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, May 2004.
2003
Zowghi D., Gervasi V., "On the Interplay Between Consistency, Completeness, and Correctness in Requirements Evolution", the Journal of Information and Software Technology, Volume 45, Issue 14, pages 993-1009, 2003.
Sarosa S., Zowghi D., “Strategy for Adopting Information Technology for
SMEs: Experience in Adopting Email within an Indonesian Furniture Company”,
Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, Volume 6, Issue 2, December 2003,
http://www.ejise.com/volume6-issue2/issue2-art18.htm
Damian D., Zowghi D., "Requirements Engineering challenges in
multi-site software development organizations", Requirements Engineering
Journal, Vol 8 issue 3, pp 149-160, 2003 published by Springer Verlag.
Conferences
2008
Mu, K., Jin, Z., and Zowghi D., “A measurement-Driven Process Model for Managing Inconsistent Software Requirements”, Proceedings of the 15th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2008), Beijing, China, 3-5 December 2008.
Davis, A., Nurmuliani, Park, S., Zowghi D., “Requirements Change: What’s the Alternative?”,
Proceedings of The Second IEEE International Workshop on Requirements Engineering
For Services (REFS'08), in conjunction with 32nd Annual IEEE International
Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008), Turku, Finland,
July 28 – August 1, 2008.
Babar, A., Zowghi D., Cox K., and Tosic V., “Three Integration Approaches for Map and B-SCP Requirements Engineering Techniques”, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Fortaleza, Brazil, March, 2008.
Babar, A., Zowghi D., Cox K., Tosic V., Bleistein S., and Verner J., “Problem Frames and Business Strategy Modelling”, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Applications of Problem Frames (IWAAPF’08), In conjunction with ICSE2008, Leipzig, Germany, May 2008.
Bucknell A., Lowe D., and Zowghi D., “A Method for Analysing Web Systems Model Alignment”, Proceedings of the 14th Australasian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb2008), Ballina, Australia, 5-9th April 2008.
Mehboob Z., Zowghi D., and Lowe D., “Supporting Integrated Dependency Model for Change Impact Analysis in Web systems”, Proceedings of the 14th Australasian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb2008), Ballina, Australia, 5-9th April 2008.
2007
Yusop N., Meboob Z., and Zowghi D., “The Role of Conducting Stakeholder Meetings in Requirements Engineering Training”, Second International Workshop on the Requirements Engineering Education and Training in conjunction with RE07, Delhi, India, October 2007.
Araujo, J., Zowghi D., and Moreira A., “An Evolutionary Model of
Requirements Correctness with Early Aspects”, Proceedings of the 9th International
Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE 2007), co-located with the
6th ESEC/FSE, Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 3-4, 2007.
Bucknell, A., Lowe, D., Zowghi D., “Aligning Web System and Organisational Models”,
Proceedings of the Workshop on Aligning Web Systems and Organisation
Requirements (AWSOR'07), co-located with The 7th International Conference on
Web Engineering (ICWE'2007), Como, Italy, July 16-20, 2007.
Boyd, S., Zowghi, D., and Gervasi V., “Optimal-Constraint Lexicons for Requirements Specifications”, Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering, Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ ’07), Trondheim, Norway, June 2007.
Niazi M., Wilson D., and Zowghi D., “Organisational Readiness and Software Process Improvement”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2007), Riga, Latvia, July 2-4, 2007.
Baker E, Kan M., Teo S., Onyx J., Grant A., & Zowghi
D., “Managing sustainable non-profit
network organizations”, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada
Conference, Ottawa, June 2-5, 2007.
2006
Nurmuliani, Zowghi D., Williams S., “Requirements Volatility and Its Impact on Effort: Evidence Based Research in Software Development Projects”, Proceedings of the 11th Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE 2006), Adelaide, Australia, December 2006.
Yusop N., Zowghi D., and Lowe D., “The impact of Non Functional
Requirements in Web System Projects”, Proceedings of the Third European and
Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS 2006), Costa Blanca,
Spain, July 2006.
Yusop, N., Lowe D., Zowghi, D., “A Survey of Issue Resolution on the Incremental Refinement
of the System Scope in Web System Development”, Proceedings of the Sixth
International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2006), Palo Alto, California,
USA, July 2006.
Niazi M., Wilson D., and Zowghi D., “Implementing Software Process Improvement Initiatives: An empirical study”, Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement, LNCS, Volume 4034/2006, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp 222-233, Amsterdam. Holland, June 12-14, 2006.
McBride T., Henderson-Seller B., and Zowghi
D., “Managing outsourced software
development: Does organisational distance demand different project
management?”, Proceedings of the
UKAIS 2006: UK Academy for Information System, University of
Gloucestershire, UK, April 2006.
2005
Coulin C., Zowghi D., “What Do Experts Think About Elicitation? – A State of Practice
Survey”, Proceedings of the 10th Australian Workshop on Requirenents
Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, November 2005.
Sarosa S., Zowghi D., “Information Technology Adoption Process within Indonesian SMEs: An Empirical Study”, Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Sydney, Australia, December 2005.
Nurmuliani, Zowghi D., Williams S., “Characterising Requirements Volatility: An empirical Analysis”, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE), Noosa, Australia, November 2005.
Zowghi D., Firesmith D., and Henderson-Sellers B., “Using the OPEN Process Framework to Produce a Situation-Specific Requirements Engineering Method”, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situational Requirements Engineering Processes (SREP’05) – Methods, Techniques and Tools to Support Situation-Specific Requirements Engineering Processes in conjunction with RE05, Paris, France, August-September 2005.
Coulin C., Zowghi D., Sahraoui A. E. K., “A Lightweight Workshop-Centric Situational Approach for the Early Stages of Requirements Elicitation in Software Systems Development”, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Situational Requirements Engineering Processes (SREP’05) – Methods, Techniques and Tools to Support Situation-Specific Requirements Engineering Processes in conjunction with RE05, Paris, France, August-September 2005.
Boyd S., Zowghi D., and Farroukh A., “Measuring the Expressiveness of
a Constrained Natural Language: An Empirical Study”, Proceedings of the IEEE
International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE05), Paris, France, August
2005.
Coulin C., Sahraoui A.K., Zowghi D., “Towards a Collaborative Approach to Requirements Elicitation in a Systems Engineering Framework”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems Engineering, (ICSEng’05), Las Vegas, USA, August 16 - 18, 2005
Sarosa S., Zowghi D., “Recover from information system failure: An
Indonesian case study”, Proceedings of the European and Mediterranean
Conference on Information Systems, (EMCIS2005), Cairo, Egypt, June 2005.
2004
McBride T., Henderson-Sellers B., Zowghi D., “Project Management Capability Levels: An
Empirical Study”, Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering
Conference (APSEC'2004), Busan, Korea, December 2004
Yusop N., Lowe D., Zowghi D., "A domain framework for representation of Web system impacts", Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'04), Brisbane, Australia, November 2004.
Nurmuliani, Zowghi D., and Williams S., "Using Card Sorting Technique to Classify Requirements Change”, proceedings of the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE04), Kyoto, Japan, September 2004.
McBride T., Henderson-Sellers B., Zowghi D., "Monitoring and Controlling Software Development Projects", Proceedings of the European Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS), 25-27 July, Tunis, Tunisia, 2004.
Coulin C., and Zowghi D., "An interactive computer game-based teaching and learning environment for Requirements Engineering", Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Foundations for Software Quality (REFSQ' 04), Riga, Latvia in connection with CAiSE'04 7-8 June 2004.
Nurmuliani, Zowghi D., and Fowell S., "Analysis of Requirements Volatility during Software Development Life Cycle", proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC), April 13-16, Melbourne, Australia, 2004.
Babar M.A., Zowghi D., "Developing a Requirements Management Toolset: Lessons Learned", proceedings of the Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC), April 13-16, Melbourne, Australia, 2004.
Niazi M., Wilson D., and Zowghi D., "A Model for the Implementation of Software Process Improvement: An Empirical Study", Proceedings of the International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES04), April 5 - 8,Kansai Science City, Japan, 2004.
Niazi M., Wilson D., and Zowghi D., "Critical Barriers for Software Process Improvement Implementation: An Empirical Study", Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering (SE 2004), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2004.
2003
Zowghi D.,
Paryani S. "Teaching Requirements Engineering through Role Playing:
Lessons Learnt", proceedings of the IEEE International Requirements
Engineering Conference, Monterey Bay, USA, September 2003.
Coulin C., Zowghi D., "Agent-Based Support for Requirements
Elicitation", to be published in the proceedings of the Workshop on
Intelligent Technologies for Software Engineering (WITSE), in conjunction with
the 9th European Software Engineering Conference & 11th ACM SIGSOFT
International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-11),
Finland, September 2003.
Niazi M., Wilson D., and Zowghi D., "Critical Success Factors and Critical
Barriers for Software Process Improvement: an Analysis of Literature", to
be published in the proceedings of the 14th Australasian Conference on
Information Systems (ACIS), Perth, Australia, November 2003.
Niazi M., Wilson D., and Zowghi D., "A model for the implementation of software
process improvement: A pilot study", to be published in the proceedings of
the 3rd International Conference on Quality Software, Dallas, USA, November
6-7, 2003
Niazi M., Wilson D., and Zowghi D., "A framework for guiding the design of effective implementation strategies for software process improvement", proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), San Francisco, USA, July 2003.
Yusop N., Zowghi D., and Lowe D., "An Analysis of E-Business
Systems Impacts on the Business Domain", in the proceedings of the 3rd
International Conference on Electronic Business (ICEB 2003), Singapore,
December 2003.
Sarosa S., and Zowghi D., "Strategy for Adopting Information Technology for SMEs : Experience in Adopting Email within an Indonesian Furniture Company", the Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation (ISSN 1566-6379), December 2003.
Lowe D., Yusop N., Zowghi D., "Using Prototypes to Understand Business Impacts of Web Systems", in the proceedings of the 8th Australian World Wide Web conference, Gold Coast, July 2003.
Damian D., Zowghi D., "An insight into the interplay between
culture, conflict and distance in globally distributed requirements
negotiations", in the proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference
on System Sciences (HICSS-36), 2003.
2002
Zowghi D., and
Nurmuliani, “A study of impact of requirements volatility on software project
performance”, proceedings of the 9th Asia Pacific Software Engineering
Conference December 2002.
Zowghi, D., Gervasi, V., “The Three Cs of Requirements: Consistency, Completeness and Correctness”, proceedings of 8th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, (REFSQ’02), Essen, Germany, September 2002.
Henderson-Sellers, B., Zowghi, D., Klemola T., and Parasuram S., “Sizing Use Cases: How to Create a Standard Metrical Approach”, proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems (OOIS 2002), September 2002.
Damian D., Zowghi D.,
Vaidyanathasamy L.,and Pal Y., “An Industrial Experience in process
Improvement, An Early Assessment at The Australian Centre for Unisys Software”,
proceedings of the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering,
Nara, Japan, October 2002.
Zowghi, D., “Does Global Software Development Need a Different Requirements Engineering Process?”, Proceeding of International Workshop on Global Software Development, (In conjunction with the Int'l Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2002, Orlando, Florida).
Damian D.E., Zowghi, D., “The impact of stakeholders’ geographical distribution on managing
requirements in a multi-site organization”, proceedings of the IEEE Joint
International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE02), September 2002,
Essen, Germany.
2001
Zowghi D., Damian D.E., Offen, R, “Field studies of Requirements Engineering in a multi-site software development organization: research in progress”, in Proceedings of the sixth Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE01), November 2001, Sydney, Australia.
Zowghi D., Gervasi V., “Why is RE for web-based software development easier”, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Foundations for Software Quality (REFSQ’01), Co-located with CAiSE’01 Interlaken, Switzerland, June 2001, Lecture Notes in Computer Science published by Springer-Verlag.
Zowghi D., Gervasi V., and McRae A., “Using Default Reasoning to Discover Inconsistencies in Natural Language Requirements”, in the proceedings of the Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC’01).
2000
Damian D.E., Shaw M.L.G., Gains B. R. and Zowghi D., “A multidisciplinary paradigm to the study of distributed requirements negotiation”, Proceedings of the Fifth Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE’00), Brisbane, Australia, 8-9 December 2000, pp91-100
Zowghi D., “A Requirements Engineering Process Model based on Defaults and Revisions”, Proceedings of the second International workshop on Requirements Engineering Process (REP 2000) in conjunction with DEXA 2000, London September 2000.
Zowghi D., Offen, R. Nurmuliani, “The Impact of Requirements Volatility on the Software Development Lifecycle”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software, Theory and Practice (ICS2000), IFIP World Computer Conference, Beijing, China, August 2000.
1999
Richards D., Zowghi D., "Maintaining and Comparing Requirements", Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Conference on Requirements Engineering, pp 115-129, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, September 1999.
1998
Zowghi D., Nurmuliani, "Investigating Requirements Volatility During Software Development: Research in Progress", Proceedings of the Third Australian Conference on Requirements Engineering, Geelong, Victoria, pp 26-27 October 1998.
1997
Zowghi D., Offen R., Ghose A., “Computer Assisted Requirements Evolution Tool: Formal Foundations and Architecture”, Proceedings of the 2nd Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE’97), pp 37-49, October 1997, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Zowghi D., Offen
R., "A Logical Framework for Modeling and Reasoning about the Evolution of
Requirements", Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Symposium on
Requirements Engineering (RE’97), pp 247-257, January 1997, Annapolis, USA.
1996
Zowghi D., Offen R., "A Logical Framework for Modeling and Reasoning about the Evolution of Requirements", Proceedings of the first Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, September 1996.
Zowghi D., Ghose A., Peppas P., "A Framework for Reasoning about Requirements Evolution", Proceedings of the 4th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI’96), pp 157-168, Cairns, Australia, August 1996.
1988
Zowghi D., Powers D., "An Experimental Expert System for DNA Restriction Mapping" Proceedings of the International Conference on Expert Systems and Applications, Avignon, France 1988
Edited Books and Proceedings
The Proceedings of the First and Second International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET2005 and REET2007), Held in conjunction with RE05 in Paris and RE07 in New Delhi, Didar Zowghi and Jane Cleland-Huang (Eds), Aardvark Global Publishing, March, 2008, ISBN: 978-1-4276-3012-4
Proceedings of the 11th Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE06), University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 8-9 December 2006. Edited by Didar Zowghi and Lemai Nguyen, ISBN 1 920927 40 9.
Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Comparative Evaluation on Requirements Engineering (CERE2004), in conjunction with RE04, Kyoto, Japan, September 2004. Edited by Vincenzo Gervasi, Didar Zowghi, and Susan Sim. ISBN 1-86365-866-1.
Proceedings of the Eighth Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering (AWRE2003), Sydney, Australia, December 2003, Edited by Didar Zowghi and Ban Al-Ani, ISBN 1-86365-710-X.
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Comparative Evaluation in Requirements Engineering (CERE2003), in conjunction with the International Requirements Engineering Conference, Monterey Bay, California, USA, September 2003, Edited by Vincenzo Gervasi, Didar Zowghi, Steve Easterbrook, Susan Sim. ISBN 1-86365-861-0.
Proceedings of the Fifth Australian Workshop on Requirements Engineering, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, December 2000, Edited by Didar Zowghi, ISBN 1 86365 6960.
Proceedings of the Fourth Australian Conference on
Requirements Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, September
1999, Edited by Didar Zowghi, ISBN 1
86408 5398.
Proceedings of the Second Australian workshop on
Requirements Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, October
1997, Edited by Didar Zowghi and Louise
Scott, ISBN 1 86408 3921.
Dissertations:
Zowghi D., "An Experimental Expert System for DNA
Restriction Mapping", MSc Thesis, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,
1993
Zowghi
D., "A Logic-Based Framework for the
Management of Changing Software Requirements", PhD Thesis, Macquarie
University, Sydney, Australia, 2000.
Technical Reports:
Zowghi D., Paryani S. "Teaching Requirements Engineering through Role Playing", Department of Software Engineering Technical Report 2003.1, Faculty of Information Technology, UTS
Damian D.E., Zowghi, D., “The impact of stakeholders’ geographical distribution on managing requirements in a multi-site organization”, Department of Software Engineering Technical Report 2002.1, Faculty of Information Technology, UTS.
Zowghi D., Wildie M., "Reasoning About Changing Requirements: Foundational versus Coherence Theories", JRCASE Research Report 99/1, 1999.
Zowghi D., Offen R., Ghose A., "Requirements Evolution Support System: Formal Foundations and Architecture”, JRCASE Research report 97/9, 1997.
Zowghi
D., "Software Requirements
Engineering", Proceedings of the Second JRCASE/Flinders University
Collaborative Research Workshop on Software Engineering, Macquarie University,
Sydney, 1995.
Zowghi D., "Software Requirements Elicitation", Proceedings of the First JRCASE/Flinders University Collaborative Research Workshop on Software Engineering, Victor Harbour SA, 1994, JRCASE Research Report 94/2.
Zowghi D., "Software Reuse, A State-of-the-Art Survey and Assessment of Future Potential", CSIRO-Macquarie University Joint Research Centre for Advanced Systems Engineering (JRCASE), Technical Report 93/3, June 1993