Norah Power

Lecturer in Computer Systems

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Limerick
Limerick
Ireland

Tel: +353 61 202769
Fax: +353 61 202734
Email: Norah.Power@ul.ie
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Research Interests:

Specific Interests:

Characteristics of Requirements Specification Documents: (What makes a good software requirements document?)
Qualitative Research Methods: Grounded Theory in particular
Database and CASE facilities for Software Localisation

General Interests:

: Software Requirements Engineering, Conceptual Modelling,
Information Systems, System Development Methods,
Formal Methods, Database Design, Software Localisation, CASE

Teaching Interests:

Systems Analysis

: Particularly requirements analysis, conceptual modelling, and database design.

Computer Integrated Manufactuing

: The application of computers, software, information systems, databases, etc.
in the business of turning raw materials into products.

Formal Methods

: Modelling and Specification techniques
: Z in particular

SQL

: Please don't call it 'sequel'

Other activities:

Coordinator of Final Year Projects for Computer Systems and Language & Computing

Connections:

Association for Computing Machinery

IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Software

The Irish Formal Methods people

Sage publications

If you're interested in Requirements Engineering, the following links may be useful:

The Requirements Engineering Newsletter and its archive

Software Requirements Engineering (worth the delay!)

The Renoir Network