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

• Chitti, P, Murkin, J & Chitchyan, R, 2019, ‘Data Management: Relational vs Blockchain Databases’.
• Chitchyan, R, Bird, C & Shah, P, 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)
• Al Hinai, MA & Chitchyan, R, 2019, ‘Equality Requirements for Software Systems: A Survey’. in: Proceedings of the ICT4S 2019 Conference.
• Park, J, Chitchyan, R, Angelopoulou, A & Murkin, J, 2019, ‘A Block-Free Distributed Ledger for P2P Energy Trading: Case with IOTA?’. in: 2019 31st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2019). Springer, Cham
• Penzenstadler, B, Duboc, L, Venters, C, Betz, S, Seyff, N, Wnuk, C, Chitchyan, R, Easterbrook, S & Becker, C, 2018, ‘Software Engineering for Sustainability: Find the Leverage Points!’. IEEE Software.
• Becker, C, Chitchyan, R, Betz, S & McCord, C, 2018, ‘Trade-off Decisions Across Time in Technical Debt Management: A Systematic Literature Review’. in: International Conference on Technical Debt,Gothenburg, Sweden, May 27-28, 2018. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Cazzola, W, Chitchyan, R, Rashid, A & Shaqiri, A, 2018, ‘μ-DSU: A Micro-Language Based Approach to Dynamic Software Updating’. Computer Languages, Systems and Structures, vol 51., pp. 71-89
• Ullah, F, Edwards, M, Ramdhany, R, Chitchyan, R, Babar, MA & Rashid, A, 2018, ‘Data exfiltration: A review of external attack vectors and countermeasures’. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, vol 101., pp. 18-54
• Murkin, J, Chitchyan, R & Ferguson, D, 2017, ‘Goal-Based Automation of Peer-to-Peer Electricity Trading’. in: From Science to Society: New Trends in Environmental Informatics. Springer, Cham, pp. 139-151
• Chitchyan, R, Groher, I & Noppen, J, 2017, ‘Uncovering sustainability concerns in software product lines’. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, vol 29.

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