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style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#00B0F0'>Tacit
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style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#4F6228'>Invited speaker:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#4F6228'>Pete
Sawyer</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#4F6228'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7030A0'>Wednesday
6<sup>th</sup> January 2010 / 11-12pm / LRG032</span></i></b><span lang=EN-GB
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB>ABSTRACT <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>In Requirements Engineering, we know that we cannot make
everything explicit. We need to assume that sufficient shared understanding
exists among the stakeholders, the analysts and the developers to obviate the
need for complete, explicit descriptions of all the requirements and their
context. However, problems occur when this shared understanding is poor and
particularly when one or more of the parties fail to understand the extent of their
imperfectly shared understanding. In my talk, I will discuss on-going work that
seeks to help recognize when tacit knowledge results in requirements that are
implicit, or in context that is needed to correctly interpret the requirements.
Much of this work is concerned with inferring the effects of tacit knowledge
from up-stream requirements information, and is based on the application of
text mining techniques to RE problems.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB>BIO<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Pete Sawyer is Reader in Software Systems Engineering in
the Computing Department at Lancaster University. He did his PhD in Software
Engineering in 1990 under the supervision of Ian Sommerville. His primary
research interests are in the general area of Requirements Engineering, but
recent work includes ontology learning, web services and self-adaptive systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>This talk can be viewed at </span><span
class=apple-style-span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'><a href="http://connect.lero.ie/petesawyer/">http://connect.lero.ie/petesawyer/</a></span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:16.0pt'>If you would like to attend please RSVP before January
5th to <a href="mailto:katherine.martin@lero.ie">katherine.martin@lero.ie</a>
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