Invited Talk

PURE: Problem-oriented Urban Requirements Engineering for Big Data Analytics

Zhi Li
College of Computer Science and Information Technology
Guangxi Normal University, China

Abstract:

Modern cities, especially metropolitans in China are facing challenging problems in terms of deterioration of environment quality, heavy traffic congestion, over-consumption of energy, and other socio-technical issues. There are multiple dimensions to this complex and taxing problem, which requires real-time analytics based on large volumes of multiple-source data sets for real-time predictions and decision-making. The research work on “urban computing” have provided solutions based on data mining techniques, which can help meet some of these challenges in urban planning and management. However, the software engineering of such analytics systems in a real world setting remains an under-explored research area. From a Requirements Engineering (RE) perspective, understanding the stakeholders and their problems is of primary importance, in particular identifying their requirements value chains and further defining a data value chain for big data is more promising than trying to obtain the full data set. In this talk, I will present our PURE process framework which spans three sub-processes, namely the Requirements Engineering (RE), Problem-Orientation (PO) and Urban Computing processes.

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[2] Fricker, S (2010). Requirements Value Chains: Stakeholder Management and Requirements Engineering in Software Ecosystems, in Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality: 16th International Working Conference, REFSQ 2010, Essen, Germany, June 30-July 2, Springer Berlin Heidelberg: Berlin, Heidelberg. p. 60-66.

[3] H. G. Miller and P. Mork (2013). From Data to Decisions: A Value Chain for Big Data. in IT Professional, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 57-59, Jan.-Feb. 2013.doi: 10.1109/MITP.2013.11

About the Speaker:

Dr. Zhi Li is a Full Professor at Guangxi Normal University (Vice-Dean of College of Computer Science and Information Technology), China. He is a Distinguished Member of China Computer Federation (CCF), and a member of CCF’s Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) and Task Force on Formal Methods. Prof. Li's research interests are Problem-oriented Requirements Engineering (PURE) for big data analytics, modelling and verification of cyber-physical systems, software testing and human-computer interaction. His research has been sponsored by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi. He has published over 20 research papers and obtained 8 software copyrights in China. Before joining GXNU, he was a post-doctoral researcher and honorary research fellow at Keele University (Software Engineering Research Group, 2007-2010). Prof. Li completed his PhD in computer science at the Open University (Software Engineering and Design, 2003-2007), after obtaining an MSc from the Department of Computer Science at the University of York.