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academic staff

COTAR membership is open to those academics who wish to contribute to COTAR's activities and participate in COTAR's events. Core members are those actively involved in one of COTAR's three major projects (please add link here to Projects page). During 1999, a minimal core membership was maintained, pending the COTAR Review. Following the successful outcome of this review, other academics joined COTAR as members for 2000 and beyond.

Brian Henderson-Sellers core member

BRIAN HENDERSON-SELLERS was the first Director of COTAR (1994-6, 1999 to date) and is Professor of Information Systems at UTS. His interests are mainly in OO methodologies and process, metrics, project management and company migration to OO. He is involved in several metrics projects, leads the OPEN Consortium and is involved, through the Object Management Group, with the ongoing changes to UML. He has published a significant number of papers and books under the auspices of COTAR as well as a large number of international presentations (see Publications). He is a columnist for the large circulation OO journal JOOP and a frequent invited speaker at industry conferences.

David Lowe core member

DAVID LOWE is a Co-Director of COTAR and Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programmes for the Faculty of Engineering at UTS. He has active research interests in the areas of Web development and technologies, hypermedia and software engineering. In particular, he focusses on information contextualisation, Web development processes and web project specification and scoping. He has published widely in the area, including over 40 refeered papers in the last seven years and several texts (Lowe and Hall, Hypermedia and the Web: An Engineering Approach, Wiley, 1999 and Wilde and Lowe, Transclusing the Web: Linking and XML, 2001, Addison-Wesley - currently in preparation). He has undertaken numerous consultancies related to both software evaluation and Web development (especially project evaluation and system architecture evaluation).

Didar Zowghi core member

DIDAR ZOWGHI is a Co-Director of COTAR and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Software Engineering at UTS. She is also the director of MSc computing and honours program at the Faculty of Information Technology at UTS. Didar worked in the IT industry as an analyst and consultant both in the UK and Australia for several years after the completion of her BSc (Hons) and prior to joining academe in Sydney. Didar has an international reputation in requirements engineering research, serving on many program committees as well as being a founding member in 1996 of the organising committee (and several times conference chair) of the Australian Conference/Workshop on Requirements Engineering series. Didar is one of the 5 regional editors of the International Requirements Engineering Journal published by Springer Verlag and the vice-chairperson of the IEEE special task force on requirements engineering. She manages and moderates a worldwide electronic discussion mailing list on Software Requirements Engineering (SRE) since 1995 with over 700 subscribers.

John Hughes core member

Professor John Hughes' interests include migration strategies.

David Wilson core member

Associate Professor David Wilson has interests in quality, CASE tools and migration strategies.

Richard Raban

Mr Richard Raban is interested in OO analysis and design.

research staff

postdoctoral researchers

COTAR has, over the years, been host to a number of postdoctoral researchers including Dr James Noble, Dr Ishbel Duncan, Dr Andreas Opdahl and Dr Daniela Damian. Currently, Dr Cesar Gonzalez-Perez (cesargon@it.uts.edu.au) is working with Prof Henderson-Sellers in object-oriented methodologies and metamodelling. Dr Magdy Serour (mserour@it.uts.edu.au) is also working with Prof Henderson-Sellers in method engineering, agile development and e-commerce with industry partners.

research assistants

Recent research assistance has been provided by Mr Srikanth Parasuram,
Mr Muhammad Alibabar, Mr Tom Klemola and Mr Jörn Bohling. Currently Mr Tom McBride (mcbride@it.uts.edu.au) is working with Prof Henderson-Sellers on the OOSPICE project.

research students

PhD
Over the years, COTAR has been host to a number of part-time and full-time PhD students. The current students are:

Rachatrin Tongrungrojana (supervisors DBL), fulltime, area of architecture description languages for the web. rachatrin@hotmail.com

Masters

There are a number of Masters by coursework students who have been working closely with COTAR. Ms Denise Pavlov undertook a study in use cases, Mr Mark Carroll did a very successful study on distributed frameworks and Mr David Varnes commenced a study on usage-centered design.

COTAR hosted a number of master research studies, including
those of Ms Li Jiang on web contextualising search engines, Ms Alice Gau working on architectural design languages for the web, Mr Mostafa Al Masum and Mr Nasim Khan working on aspects of the OOSPICE project and Mr Van Phu Nguyen working on process construction and tailoring.

Honours

Brendan Haire (supervisor DBL), Capstone Project, Faculty of Engineering, UTS: "Web OPEN: An extension to the OPEN framework". brendan@staff.usyd.edu.au

honorary associates

In the context of COTAR's current restructuring and the expiration of their terms of appointment, new Honorary Associates will be appointed as and when advantageous to COTAR.

visitors

2004

• Steve Mellor

2003

• David Avison

2002

• David Avison
• Donald Firesmith
• Steve Mellor
• Terry Rout, Griffith University
• Guttorm Sindre

2001

• Martin Gogolla
• Berzins Luqi
• Steve Mellor

2000

• Associate Professor Peter Marshall, Edith Cowan University