EARS18

Ian Alexander (ScenarioPlus, UK)

Chetan Arora (University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg)

Henning Femmer (Qualicen, Germany)

Brendan Hall (Honeywell, USA)

Jennifer Horkoff (Chalmers University, Sweden)

Levi Lucio (Fortiss, Germany)

Gunter Mussbacher (McGill University, Canada)

Michael Panis (Teradyne, USA)

Erik Simmons (Construx, USA)

Sabine Teufl (Laing O’Rourke, UK)

Philip Wilkinson (Rolls-Royce, UK)

Alistair Mavin (Mav) (Rolls-Royce, UK).

Mav is a Requirements Specialist at Rolls-Royce and has carried out systems engineering and requirements engineering projects in a range of industries including aerospace, defence, rail and automotive. He is the lead author of the EARS notation, has published many papers on requirements and systems engineering and has trained and coached EARS extensively. Mav has served on the RE Industry Committee for nine years, was Industry Chair for RE13, Industry Laboratory Chair for RE14 and has served on numerous workshop Program Committees for RE and other conferences. He is a member of the British Computer Society's Requirements Engineering Specialist Group committee and is a chartered engineer.

Jane Cleland-Huang (University of Notre Dame, USA).

Jane is Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. She has organized several workshops at the Requirements Engineering Conference including Twin Peaks and AIRE. She has taught EARS in graduate level Requirements Engineering courses and is currently using EARS to specify requirements for a Cyber-Physical system for managing and coordinating the flights of small Unmanned Aerial Systems.

Sarah Gregory (Intel, USA)

Sarah is a Staff Systems and Requirements Engineer in the Internet of Things Group, Intel Corporation (USA). She conducted the first pilot of EARS with a network connectivity team within Intel in 2010, the success of which led to the inclusion of EARS within the Intel corporate Requirements Engineering toolkit of methods and practices, as well as in the corporate standard training. She has previously served on the Organizing Committee of the Requirements Engineering Education and Training (REET) workshop for a number of years, including as Co-Chair, as the Industrial Track Co-Chair, and serves as the Tutorials Co-Chair for RE18.

Eero Uusitalo (IntoWorks Oy, Finland)

Eero is an entrepreneur, consultant and engineer. He is currently using EARS to document requirements based on regulatory and other requirements in systems engineering efforts in the nuclear domain. He has previously used EARS in research projects in both the nuclear domain as well as in software engineering. Eero has been an RE Industry Committee Member since 2015 and was RE Industry Laboratory Deputy Chair in RE14.

Michael Vierhauser (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Michael is currently using EARS to specify requirements for a Cyber-Physical system. He was part of the organizing team of the MoLS 2017 (Monitoring in Large-Scale Software Systems) workshop, and is a member of the organizing team for the MoLS special session at the Euromicro 2018 conference. Michael previously worked at Siemens VAI Metals Technologies and was engaged in requirements engineering and the development of industrial automation systems.