Katrina Attwood’s (Temporary) Homepage
About Me
I came to Computer Science via a bizarre and circuitous route, which took in the picturesque byways of English Literature, linguistics, Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture and Old Norse-Icelandic Philology. After a time as a lecturer in Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, I decided that the future of philology was too bleak (and boring) to contemplate, and took an MSc in the Computer Science Department at York. I now work as a research associate in the Rolls-Royce funded University Technology Centre (part of the High-Integrity Systems Engineering Group), concentrating on the requirements engineering process for safety-critical, real-time embedded systems. Oh yes – and I still edit Old Norse-Icelandic poetry, when I’m not singing Händel!
Publications
A: Requirements
Engineering etc.
K. Attwood, T. Kelly, J. McDermid, ‘The Use of Satisfaction
Arguments for Traceability in Requirements Reuse for System Families’, in Juan
C. Dueñas and Klaus Schmidt (eds), International
Workshop on Requirements Reuse in System Family Engineering, July
2004. Technical Report, Universidad
Ibrahim Habli, Weihang Wu, Katrina Attwood and Tim Kelly, ‘Extending Argumentation to Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering’, in Jean-Luc Hainaut et al (eds), Advances in Conceptual Modelling - Foundations and Applications, Proceedings of RIGiM 2007 - International Workshop on Requirements, Intentions and Goals in Conceptual Modelling, Auckland, New Zealand, November 2007 (LNCS 4802), pages 306-16
Katrina Attwood, Philip Wilkinson and Tim Kelly, ‘An Argument-Based Approach to the Integration of Safety and Design’, Journal of the Safety and Reliability Society, Vol 29 no 4, pages 5-16
B: Old
Norse-Icelandic (Selected)
(I’ve listed my
bestselling translation, just to whet your appetite – go on, try it…it won’t
bite!)
K. Attwood (transl.), ‘The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue’, in transl. Attwood et al, The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin, 2001) ISBN 0140291334
Please Note
I shall be away from the Department from Tuesday 24th October to Friday 25th October inclusive. Many apologies for any inconvenience this absence causes – especially to students – I’m afraid it’s beyond my control!