Cornelius Ncube

Senior Lecturer, Software Systems

Dr Cornelius Ncube

Senior Lecturer
Room: P104D

Software Systems Research Centre

School of Design, Engineering and Computing
Bournemouth University
Poole, Dorset, BH12 5BB

cncube@bournemouth.ac.uk
office: +44 (0) 1202 961121

mobile: +44 (0) 7985412215

Short Biography

Cornelius Ncube is a Senior Lecturer in Software Systems at the Software Systems Research Centre, School of Design, Engineering and Computing at Bournemouth University, UK. Cornelius holds a PhD in Computer Science (City University London, UK), an MSc in Software Engineering (City University London, UK) and a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science (Brunel University, London, UK). Cornelius's core research area is in Software Systems Engineering with a particular focus on Requirements Engineering. He has contributed to requirements engineering methods and software systems development processes. More specifically, he is currently research active in the areas of Systems-of-Systems Engineering, Composition-Based Software Systems, Opportunistic-Software Systems Development, COTS-Based Systems Development and Requirements Engineering. For more information about these research interests, please see research page

Cornelius has been a researcher in various research projects including, The VANTAGE PHASE 1 Project, The NATS-EASM project, The GOMOSCE project, The BANKSEC project and PORE. For more information about these projects please see research page. Cornelius has served on the organisation and programme committees of several international conferences and workshops, and has acted as a reviewer for various international journals and research project proposal. He is co-editing the November/December 2008 special issue of the IEEE Software Journal on Opportunistic Software Systems Development, is the Research Demonstrations Co-Chair for ICSE 2010, is the Programme Co-Chair of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Composition-Based Software Systems ICCBSS 08 and is a programme committee member for REFSQ 2008 (for a complete list please see profile). Professionally, he is a member of the Requirements Engineering Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (RESG) and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

Selected Publications

Ncube C, Oberndorf T and Kark A, 2008, Guest Editors' Introduction: Opportunistic Software Systems Development, IEEE Software special issue on Opportunistic Software Systems Development, November/December 2008 (in press
Maiden N, Ncube C and Lockerbie J, 2008, Inventing Requirements with Use Cases: Experiences with a Complex System, in the Proceedings, International working Conference on: Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ’08), Montpellier, France, 16-17 June 2008
Maiden N, Ncube C, Kamali S, Sayff N, and Grunbacher P, 2007, Exploring Scenario Forms and Ways of Use to Discover Requirements on Airports that Minimize Environmental Impact, in the Proceedings, 15^th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE07), October 15-19, 2007, Delhi, India
Ncube C, Lockerbie J, and Maiden N, 2007, Automatically Generating Requirements from i* Models: A Case Study with a Complex Airport Operations System, in the Proceedings, International working Conference on: Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ’07), Trondheim, Norway, 11-12 June 2007
Maiden N, Ncube C, and Robertson S, 2007, Can Requirements Be Creative? Experiences with an Enhanced Air Space Management System, in the Proceedings, 29^th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, (ICSE07) May 20-26, 2007, Minneapolis Minnesota, USA
Ncube C and Maiden N, 2006, Scenarios for Modelling the Network-Enabled Capability Complex Military System, REFSQ'06, in conjunction with CAiSE 2006, Luxembourg, 5-9 June 2006
Ncube C and John C Dean 2002, The Limitations of Current Decision-Making Techniques in the Procurement of COTS Software Components, Proceedings of the 1^st International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, (ICCBSS’2002), Orlando, Florida, USA, February 2002
N.A.M. Maiden, H. Kim & C. Ncube 2002, Rethinking Process Guidance for Selecting Software Components, Proceedings of the 1^st International Conference on COTS-Based Software Systems, (ICCBSS’2002), Orlando, Florida, USA, February 2002
Ncube C and Maiden N A. M. 2001, Selecting the Right COTS Software: Why Requirements are Important, a chapter in a book entitled: Component-Based Software Engineering: Putting the Pieces Together, an Addison-Wesley Longman Publication, May 2001, ISBN: 0-201-70485-4
Ben Anchor C & Ncube C. 2000, Engineering the PORE Method for COTS Selection with the MAP Process Meta-Model, Proceedings of the REFSQ*2000, in conjunction with CAiSE 2000,Stockholm, Sweden
Ncube C & Maiden N.A.M (1999), Guiding Parallel Requirements Acquisition and COTS Software Selection, Proceedings of 4^th International Symposium on Requirements Engineering, Limerick, Ireland, June 1999
Maiden N.A.M. & Ncube C. (1998), Acquiring Requirements for Commercial Off-The-Shelf Package Selection, IEEE Software, 15(2), 46-56.
Maiden N.A.M., Ncube C. & Moore A. (1997), Acquiring Requirements for Commercial Off-The-Shelf Package Selection: Some Lessons Learned, Communications of the ACM, 40(12), 21-25

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