Dr Ruzanna Chitchyan

Summary

Biography

I am a senior lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of Bristol and an EPSRC fellow on Living with Environmental Change. I work on software and requirements engineering for sustainability. 

Prior to joining Bristol, I worked as a lecturer in Software Engineering at the Department of Informatics at the University of Leicester (2011 to 2017) and a research associate/assistant at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Lancaster (2004-2011), where I also gained a PhD in Computer Science (2007).

Teaching

As a full-time EPSRC research fellow, I currently have no teaching responsibilities.

Past teaching:

• Requirements Engineering and Professional Practice (2014 to 2016, taught at the University of Leicester) - a first year module on introduction to Requirements Engineering, covering:
• Overview of Requirements Engineering (e.g., scope, stakeholders, practice);
• Requirements Elicitation (e.g., interviews, observation, focus groups), and
• Requirements Representation (e.g., use cases, goal models, business processes, activity models)
• Security in Requirements (e.g., misuse cases, anti-goals, obstacle analysis).
• CO7207: Generative Development (2012 to 2016, taught at the University of Leicester) - an MSc module on new development techniques to cope with size and complexity increase in software systems, covering: 
• Model Driven Development,
• Aspect-Oriented Development, and
• Software Product Lines.
• CO7501: Individual Project (2013 to 2017, taught at the University of Leicester) - and MSc final project module.

Keywords

• Software Engineering
• Requirements Engineering
• Energy
• Energy Systems
• Socio-technical systems

Memberships

Organisations

Department of Computer Science

Cabot Institute

Other sites

• Computerscience

Recent publications

• Bird, C & Chitchyan, R, 2019, ‘Towards Requirements for a Demand Side Response Energy Management System for Households’.
• Kienzle, J, Mussbacher, G, Combemale, B, Bastin, L, Bencomo, N, Bruel, J-M, Becker, C, Betz, S, Chitchyan, R, Cheng, B, Klingert, S, Paige, R, Penzenstadler, B, Seyff, N, Syriani, E & Venters, C, 2019, ‘Towards Model-Driven Sustainability Evaluation’. Communications of the ACM.
• Chitti, P & Chitchyan, R, 2019, ‘Keeping Data Inter-related in a Blockchain’. in: Cinzia Cappiello, Marcela Ruiz (eds) Information Systems Engineering in Responsible Information Systems - CAiSE Forum 2019, Proceedings: Rome, Italy, June 3–7, 2019. Springer, Cham, pp. 48-59
• Chitti, P, Murkin, J & Chitchyan, R, 2019, ‘Data management: Relational vs blockchain databases’. in: Henderik A Proper, Janis Stirna (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops: CAiSE 2019 International Workshops, Rome, Italy, June 3-7, 2019, Proceedings. Springer, Cham, pp. 189-200
• Schien, D, Nolden, C, Bird, C, Rubia, C, Wilkinson, D, Ramokapane, M, Preist, C, Chitti, P & Chitchyan, R, 2019, ‘Exploring Implications of Capacity-Based Electricity Pricing for Peak Demand Reduction’. in: Annika Wolff (eds) CEUR. CEUR Workshop Proceedings
• Duboc, L, Betz, S, Penzenstadler, B, Kocak, SA, Chitchyan, R, Leifler, O, Porras, J, Seyff, N & Venters, C, 2019, ‘Do we really know what we are building? Raising awareness of potential Sustainability Effects of Software Systems in Requirements Engineering’. in: 27th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference. IEEE Computer Society
• Zekaria, Y & Chitchyan, R, 2019, ‘Exploring Future Skills Shortage in the Transition to Localised and Low-Carbon Energy Systems’.
• Chitchyan, R, Shah, P & Bird, C, 2019, ‘Eliciting requirements for demand response service design to households: A pilot study’. in: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2014-17 2019. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 299-304
• Al Hinai, MA & Chitchyan, R, 2019, ‘Equality Requirements for Software Systems: A Survey’. in: Proceedings of the ICT4S 2019 Conference.
• Weber, B & Chitchyan, R, 2019, ‘Welcome message from the short paper and empirical artefacts track chairs’. in: 23rd Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering Conference, EASE 2019: IT University Copenhagen; Denmark; 14 April 2019 through 17 April . Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

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