Professor Robin Laney

Professional biography

Robin is a Professor of Computational Musicology at the Open University. He has a BSc. in Micro-computers and Applications from Westfield College, University of London, and a PhD. In Computer Science from King’s College, University of London.

Robin is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He pursues an active programme of public engagement, largely through Speakers for Schools, but is also happy to consider direct invitations.

Research interests

Robin has a background in software engineering, but much of his work is in Music Computing. He is interested in how music works and why it is so significant as a human activity. His team is exploring this through two approaches:

1) Computational Musicology - What can pattern matching and statistical approaches tell us about the content of music?

2) Human-AI Collaborative Systems that allow mixed-ability groups to make music in a meaningful and intentional manner.

An overview of some of his work on AI, music and creativity can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m3Pd6FOx6Y

A short video on Open Melody, a human-AI collaborative creative music tool his team has produced, can be found here:

https://ordo.open.ac.uk/articles/media/Demo_of_Open_Melody/13100039

The tool is available as a Web app here:

https://openmelody.co.uk/OpenMelody.htm

A similar piece of software as a Processing sketch, is freely available at:

https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.rd.13079081

Robin is a core member of the AHRC-funded research network Datasounds, datasets and datasense: Unboxing the hidden layers between musical data, knowledge and creativity.

Robin has supervised 17 PhD students to successful completion, both in Software Engineering and various topics within Music Computing. He is always keen to hear from perspective PhD students, whether for full or part-time distance study. More generally, he is happy to answer any questions on his research, whether from academics or the general public.

Teaching interests

Robin was production chair of M363, a level 3 course in software engineering, where he took a new approach to teaching software requirements and introduced a strongly case-study based pedagogy. His more recent involvement is with TM112 Introduction to Computing and IT 2, where with colleagues he revised the OU's approach to teaching programming so that problem-solving is foregrounded over syntax.

Impact and engagement

Robin is active in public engagement, largely through Speakers for Schools, but is also happy to consider direct invitations.

Other engagement includes activities on stands at:

External collaborations

Robin is co-editor of the Journal of Creactive Music Systems.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Research groups

Name	Type	Parent Unit
Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)	Centre	Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology

Externally funded projects

STFC CDT DISCNET 2

Role	Start date	End date	Funding source
Co-investigator	01 Oct 2022	30 Sep 2028	STFC Science & Technology Facilities Council
The DISCnet vision is to train the Data Science Leaders of the future. DISCnet accelerates the pace of scientific discovery in the understanding of our Universe and its fundamental particles through the application of cutting-edge Data Intensive Science. Our centre attracts top students from the physical sciences, and develops them into innovators adept at working in academic and commercial environments, equipped with enviable technical skills, and armed with the full appreciation of uncertainty in decision-making applications that comes from a rigorous scientific background. This enables them to lead disruptive change, potentially transforming sectors of the economy to position the UK at the forefront of the global data revolution. Their diverse and inclusive career network facilitates a life-long capability to develop themselves and to influence others. We have established DISCnet as a national hub of research excellence across three world-class universities, embedded within a global network of premier scientific facilities, and with an industrial placement programme that will directly connect innovation in computational science and fundamental physics to the UK economy.

Publications

Journal articles

Sketching Music: exploring melodic similarity and contrast using a Digital Tabletop (2020)
Franceschini, Andrea; Laney, Robin and Dobbyn, Chris
Journal of Music, Technology and Education, 13(1) (pp. 5-31)

Smart Cities and M³: Rapid Research, Meaningful Metrics and Co-Design (2018-02)
Bell, Simon; Benatti, Francesca; Edwards, Neil R.; Laney, Robin; Morse, David R.; Piccolo, Lara and Zanetti, Oliver
Systemic Practice and Action Research, 31(1) (pp. 27-53)

Developing and evaluating a hybrid wind instrument (2017-09-01)
Buys, Kurijn; Sharp, David and Laney, Robin
Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 103(5) (pp. 830-846)

Computer-Generated Stylistic Compositions with Long-Term Repetitive and Phrasal Structure (2017-03)
Collins, Tom and Laney, Robin
Journal of Creative Music Systems, 1(2)

Testing a Spectral Model of Tonal Affinity with Microtonal Melodies and Inharmonic Spectra (2016-12)
Milne, Andrew J.; Laney, Robin and Sharp, David B.
Musicae Scientiae, 20(4) (pp. 465-494)

Exploring Social Interaction With a Tangible Music Interface (2016-06-20)
Xambó, Anna; Hornecker, Eva; Marshall, Paul; Jorda, Sergi; Dobbyn, Chris and Laney, Robin
Interacting with Computers, 29(2) (pp. 248-270)

Developing and evaluating computational models of musical style (2016-02-28)
Collins, Tom; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Garthwaite, Paul H.
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 30(1) (pp. 16-43)

A spectral pitch class model of the probe tone data and scalic tonality (2015-04-01)
Milne, Andrew; Laney, Robin and Sharp, David
Music Perception, 32(4) (pp. 364-393)

A Subsumption Agent for Collaborative Free Improvisation (2015)
Linson, Adam; Dobbyn, Chris; Lewis, George and Laney, Robin
Computer Music Journal, 39(4) (pp. 96-115)

Let’s jam the reactable: peer learning during musical improvisation with a tabletop tangible interface (2013-12)
Xambó, Anna; Hornecker, Eva; Marshall, Paul; Jordà, Sergi; Dobbyn, Chris and Laney, Robin
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 20, Article 36(6)

A parsimonious cognitive architecture for human-computer interactive musical free improvisation (2013)
Linson, Adam; Dobbyn, Chris and Laney, Robin
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 196 (pp. 219-224)

Specifying software features for composition: a tool-supported approach (2013)
Tun, Thein; Laney, Robin; Yu, Yijun and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Computer Networks, 57(12) (pp. 2454-2464)

A MIDI sequencer that widens access to the compositional possibilities of novel tunings (2012-04)
Prechtl, Anthony; Milne, Andrew J.; Holland, Simon; Laney, Robin and Sharp, David B.
Computer Music Journal, 36(1) (pp. 42-54)

Modelling the similarity of pitch collections with expectation tensors (2011-05)
Milne, Andrew J.; Sethares, William A.; Laney, Robin and Sharp, David B.
Journal of Mathematics and Music: Mathematical and Comptational Approaches to Music Theory, Analysis, Composition and Performance, 5(1) (pp. 1-20)

Modeling pattern importance in Chopin's mazurkas (2011-04)
Collins, Tom; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Garthwaite, Paul
Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 28(4) (pp. 387-414)

Requirements-driven design of service-oriented interactions (2010-07-15)
Mahfouz, Ayman; Barroca, Leonor; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
IEEE Software, 27(6) (pp. 25-32)

Specifying features of an evolving software system (2009-08-10)
Tun, Thein Than; Trew, Tim; Jackson, Michael; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Software: Practice and Experience, 39(11) (pp. 973-1002)

Security Requirements Engineering: A Framework for Representation and Analysis (2008-01)
Haley, Charles B.; Laney, Robin; Moffett, Jonathan D. and Nuseibeh, Bashar
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 34(1) (pp. 133-153)

An introduction to aspect-oriented music representation (2007-10)
Hill, Patrick; Holland, Simon and Laney, Robin
Computer Music Journal, 31(4) (pp. 45-56)

Using trust assumptions with security requirements (2006-04)
Haley, Charles B.; Laney, Robin C.; Moffett, Jonathan D. and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Requirements Engineering, 11(2) (pp. 138-151)

Book chapters

Aspect interactions: a requirements engineering perspective (2013-10-31)
Tun, Thein; Yu, Yijun; Jackson, Michael; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In: Moreira, Ana; Chitchyan, Ruzanna; Araujo, João and Rashid, Awais eds. Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering (pp. 271-286)
ISBN : 978-3-642-38639-8 | Publisher : Springer | Published : Heidelberg

Video analysis for evaluating music interaction: musical tabletops (2013-03-31)
Xambó, Anna; Laney, Robin; Dobbyn, Chris and Jordà, Sergi
In: Holland, S.; Wilkie, K.; Mulholland, P. and Seago, A. eds. Music and Human-Computer Interaction. Springer Series on Cultural Computing (pp. 241-258)
ISBN : 978-1-4471-2989-9 | Publisher : Springer Verlag | Published : London, UK

Security patterns: comparing modeling approaches (2010-10)
Bandara, Arosha; Hayashi, Shinpei; Jurjens, Jan; Kaiya, Haruhiko; Kubo, Atsuto; Laney, Robin; Mouratidis, Haris; Nhlabatsi, Armstrong; Nuseibeh, Bashar; Tahara, Yasuyuki; Tun, Thein; Washizaki, Hironori; Yoshioka, Nobukazi and Yu, Yijun
In: Mouratidis, Haris ed. Software Engineering for Secure Systems: Industrial and Research Perspectives (pp. 75-111)
ISBN : 9781615208371 | Publisher : IGI Global | Published : Hershey, PA

Arguing satisfaction of security requirements (2008)
Haley, Charles B; Laney, Robin; Moffett, Jonathan D and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In: Nemati, Hamid ed. Information Security and Ethics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
ISBN : 978-1-59904-937-3 | Publisher : Information Science Reference

Arguing satisfaction of security requirements (2006-08-31)
Haley, Charles B.; Laney, Robin; Moffett, Jonathan D. and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In: Mouratidis, Haralambos and Giorgini, Paolo eds. Integrating security and software engineering: advances and future vision (pp. 15-42)
ISBN : 1599041472 | Publisher : Idea Group Publishing | Published : Hershey, PA and London

Trust obstacle mitigation for database systems (2006)
Page, V.; Laney, R.; Dixon, M. and Haley, C.
In: Bell, D. and Hong, J. eds. Flexible and Efficient Information Handling (pp. 254-257)
ISBN : 978-3-540-35969-2 | Publisher : Springer | Published : Berlin

Problem frames: a case for coordination (2004-02-24)
Barroca, Leonor; Fiadeiro, J.L.; Jackson, M.; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, B.
In: De Nicola, Rocco; Ferrari, Gianluigi and Meredith, Greg eds. Coordination models and languages: 6th International Conference, COORDINATION 2004 Pisa Italy, February 24-27, 2004: Proceedings. Lecture notes in computer science (2949/2004) (pp. 5-19)
ISBN : 354021044X | Publisher : Springer | Published : Heidleburg, Germany

Conference items

Bringing Timbral Shapes to Interactive Music Systems (2023)
Bolzoni, Andrea; Willis, Alistair; Sharp, David; Linson, Adam and Laney, Robin
In : CHIME One Day Workshop 2023 (4 Dec 2023, The Open University, Milton Keynes)

tiNNbre: a timbre-based musical agent (2021-11-11)
Bolzoni, Andrea; Di Donato, Balandino and Laney, Robin
In : Nordic SMC 2021: The 2nd Nordic Sound and Music Conference (11-12 Nov 2021, Online)

Automatically calculating tonal tension (2020)
Ruiz-Marcos, Germán; Willis, Alistair and Laney, Robin
In : The 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity (19-23 Oct 2020, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden [On-line])

Generating Subjects for Pieces in the Style of Bach’s Two-Part Inventions (2020)
Whorley, Raymond and Laney, Robin
In : The 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity (19-23 Oct 2020, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden [On-line])

Learning to program: from problems to code (2019-01-09)
Piwek, Paul; Wermelinger, Michel; Laney, Robin and Walker, Richard
In : Third Conference in Computing Education Practice (CEP) (9 Jan 2019, Durham, UK)

Development of a hybrid wind instrument—Some key findings (2017-06)
Buys, Kurijn; Sharp, David and Laney, Robin
In : Acoustics '17 Boston (25-29 Jun 2017, Boston, MA, USA)

Characterizing the Landscape of Musical Data on the Web: State of the Art and Challenges (2017)
Daquino, Marilena; Daga, Enrico; d'Aquin, Mathieu; Gangemi, Aldo; Holland, Simon; Laney, Robin; Penuela, Albert Merono and Mulholland, Paul
In : Second Workshop on Humanities in the Semantic Web - WHiSe II (21-25 Oct 2017, Vienna, Austria)

Improving the stability of a hybrid wind instrument using two microphones (2016-09-12)
Buys, Kurijn; Sharp, David and Laney, Robin
In : International Symposium on Musical and Room Acoustics (ISMRA 2016) (11-13 Sep 2016)

A comparison of single-reed and bowed-string excitations of a hybrid wind instrument (2015-10-23)
Buys, Kurijn; Sharp, David and Laney, Robin
In : 3rd Vienna Talk on Music Acoustics (Vienna Talk 2015) (16-19 Sep 2015, Vienna, Austria) (pp. 290-296)

Cross entropy as a measure of musical contrast (2015-06-16)
Laney, Robin; Samuels, Robert and Capulet, Emilie
In : 5th International Conference, MCM 2015 (22-25 Jun 2015, London, UK,) (pp. 193-198)

Developing and evaluating a hybrid wind instrument excited by a loudspeaker (2014-10-16)
Buys, Kurijn; Sharp, David and Laney, Robin
In : Institute of Acoustics 40th Anniversary Conference (15-16 Oct 2014, Birmingham, UK) (pp. 294-303)

Learning musical contour on a tabletop (2014-09-14)
Franceschini, Andrea; Laney, Robin and Dobbyn, Chris
In : Joint ICMC/SMC 2014 Conference (14-20 Sep 2014, Athens, Greece)

Developing a hybrid wind instrument: using a loudspeaker to couple a theoretical exciter to a real resonator (2014-07-07)
Buys, K.; Sharp, D. and Laney, R.
In : International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA 2014) (7-12 Jul 2014, Le Mans, France) (pp. 331-336)

Algorithmic music as intelligent game music (2014)
Prechtl, Anthony; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Samuels, Robert
In : AISB50: The 50th Annual Convention of the AISB (1-4 Apr 2014, London, UK)

SoundXY4: supporting tabletop collaboration and awareness with ambisonics spatialisation (2014)
Xambó, Anna; Roma, Gerard; Laney, Robin; Dobbyn, Chris and Jordà, Sergi
In : International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2014 (30 Jun - 03 Jul 2014, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) (pp. 40-45)

Methodological approaches to the evaluation of game music systems (2014)
Prechtl, Anthony; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Samuels, Robert
In : Audio Mostly Conference (01-03 Oct 2014, Aalborg, Denmark)

UniPad: orchestrating collaborative activities through shared tablets and an integrated wall display (2013-09-12)
Kreitmayer, Stefan; Rogers, Yvonne; Laney, Robin and Peake, Stephen
In : Ubicomp '13: 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (8-12 Sep 2013, Zurich, Switzerland) (pp. 801-810)

Sharing bubbles: reflections on offline multi-surface scenarios (2013-09-08)
Kreitmayer, Stefan; Laney, Robin; Peake, Stephen and Rogers, Yvonne
In : SOFTec Workshop, UbiComp '13 Adjunct Proceedings (8 Sep 2013, Zurich, Switzerland) (pp. 1405-1408)

Towards a taxonomy for video analysis on collaborative musical tabletops (2012-09)
Xambó, Anna; Laney, Robin; Dobbyn, Chris and Jordà, Sergi
In : BCS HCI 2012 Workshop on Video Analysis Techniques for HCI (11 Sep 2012, Birmingham, UK)

Factors in human recognition of timbre lexicons generated by data clustering (2012-07-12)
Roma, Gerard; Xambó, Anna; Herrera, Perfecto and Laney, Robin
In : 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2012) (11-14 Jul 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark)

Zone modelling and visualisation: keys to the design of low carbon buildings (2012-07)
Hetherington, Robina; Laney, Robin and Peake, Stephen
In : 16th International Conference on Information Visualisation (IV) (11-13 Jul 2012, Montpellier, France)

Critical issues in evaluating freely improvising interactive music systems (2012-05-30)
Linson, Adam; Dobbyn, Chris and Laney, Robin
In : International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) 2012 (30 May - 01 Jun 2012, Dublin, Ireland)

From participatory to contributory simulations: changing the game in the classroom (2012-05-07)
Kreitmayer, Stefan; Rogers, Yvonne; Laney, Robin and Peake, Stephen
In : Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (05-10 May 2012, Austin, Texas, USA) (pp. 49-58)

Improvisation without representation: artificial intelligence and music (2012-03-31)
Linson, Adam; Dobbyn, Chris and Laney, Robin
In : Music, Mind, and Invention Workshop: Creativity at the Intersection of Music and Computation (30-31 Mar 2012, Ewing, New Jersey, USA)

Interactive intelligence: behaviour-based AI, musical HCI and the Turing Test (2012)
Linson, Adam; Dobbyn, Chris and Laney, Robin
In : Revisiting Turing and his Test: Comprehensiveness, Qualia, and the Real World, Symposium no. 7 at AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012: Alan Turing Year 2012 (2-6 Jul 2012, Birmingham, UK)

Integrated building design, information and simulation modelling: the need for a new hierarchy (2011-11)
Hetherington, Robina; Laney, Robin; Peake, Stephen and Oldham, David
In : Building Simulation 2011 (14-16 Nov 2011, Sydney, Australia)

Designing a large multi-player simulation game to encourage critical debate (2011-10)
Kreitmayer, Stefan; Peake, Stephen; Laney, Robin and Rogers, Yvonne
In : 5th European Conference on Games Based Learning (20-21 Oct 2011, Athens, Greece)

Multi-touch interaction principles for collaborative real-time music activities: towards a pattern language (2011-07-31)
Xambó, Anna; Laney, Robin; Dobbyn, Chris and Jordà, Sergi
In : International Computer Music Conference Proceedings (31 Jul - 5 Aug 2011, Huddersfield)

Collaborative music interaction on tabletops: an HCI approach (2011-07-04)
Xambó, Anna; Laney, Robin; Dobbyn, Chris and Jordà, Sergi
In : BCS HCI 2011 Workshop on When Words Fail: What can Music Interaction tell us about HCI? (4 Jul 2011, Newcastle Upon Tyne)

A software vision to enable the holistic design of low carbon buildings (2011-07)
Hetherington, Robina; Laney, Robin and Peake, Stephen
In : 3rd International Workshop on Software Research and Climate Change at European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) 2011 (25 Jul 2011, Lancaster, UK)

Hex Player—a virtual musical controller (2011-05)
Milne, Andrew J.; Xambó, Anna; Laney, Robin; Sharp, David B.; Prechtl, Anthony and Holland, Simon
In : The International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression 2011 (30 May - 01 Jun 2011, Oslo, Norway)

TOUCHtr4ck: democratic collaborative music (2011-01-23)
Xambó, Anna; Laney, Robin and Dobbyn, Chris
In : TEI '11 Fifth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (23-26 Jan 2011, Funchal, Portugal)

Spectral pitch distance and microtonal melodies (2010-08)
Milne, Andrew J.; Prechtl, Anthony; Laney, Robin and Sharp, David B.
In : Proceedings of the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition 2010 (ICMPC 11) (23-27 Aug 2010, Seattle, USA)

Issues and techniques for collaborative music making on multi-touch surfaces (2010-07-24)
Laney, Robin; Dobbyn, Chris; Xambó, Anna; Schirosa, Mattia; Miell, Dorothy; Littleton, Karen and Dalton, Nick
In : 7th Sound and Music Computing Conference (21-24 Jul 2010, Barcelona)

Zero and low carbon buildings: A driver for change in working practices and the use of computer modelling and visualization (2010-07)
Hetherington, Robina; Laney, Robin and Peake, Stephen
In : 14th International Conference on Information Visualisation (27-29 Jul 2010, London South Bank University, London, UK)

Software engineering challenges: Achieving zero carbon buildings by 2019 (2010-04)
Hetherington, Robina; Laney, Robin C. and Peake, Stephen
In : ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science 2010 (13-16 Apr 2010, Edinburgh University)

Using discovered, polyphonic patterns to filter computer-generated music (2010-01)
Collins, Tom; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Garthwaite, Paul
In : Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (7-9 Jan 2010, Lisbon Portugal)

Metrics for pitch collections (2010)
Milne, Andrew J.; Sethares, William A.; Laney, Robin and Sharp, David B.
In : Proceedings of the International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition 2010 (ICMPC 11) (23-27 Aug 2010, Seattle, USA)

A comparative evaluation of algorithms for discovering translational patterns in Baroque keyboard works (2010)
Collins, Tom; Thurlow, Jeremy; Laney, Robin; Willis, Alistair and Garthwaite, Paul
In : Proceedings of the International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (9-13 Aug 2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands)

Are your lights off? Using problem frames to diagnose system failures (2009-08)
Tun, Thein; Jackson, Michael; Laney, Robin; Nuseibeh, Bashar and Yu, Yijun
In : 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (31 Aug - 4 Sep 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

Feature interaction as a context sharing problem (2009-06)
Nhlabatsi, Armstrong; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : International Conference on Feature Interactions (11-12 Jun, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

A framework for developing feature-rich software systems (2009)
Tun, Thein; Chapman, Rod; Haley, Charles; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : 16th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2009) (14-16 Apr 2009, San Francisco, California, USA)

Early identification of problem interactions: A tool-supported approach (2009)
Tun, Thein Than; Yu, Yijun; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
(pp. 74-88)

From organizational requirements to service choreography (2009)
Mahfouz, Ayman; Barroca, Leonor; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : 2009 IEEE Congress on Services (SERVICES 2009) (6-10 Jul 2009, Los Angeles, CA, USA)

Customizing choreography: Deriving conversations from organizational dependencies (2008-09)
Mahfouz, Ayman; Barroca, Leonor; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : 12th IEEE International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC 2008) (15-19 Sep 2008, München, Germany)

Using the event calculus to reason about problem diagrams (2008)
Classen, Andreas; Laney, Robin; Tun, Thein Than; Heymans, Patrick and Hubaux, Arnaud
In : Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on applications and advances of problem frames (May 2008, Leipzig, Germany)

On the structure of problem variability: From feature diagrams to problem frames (2007-01)
Classen, Andreas; Heymans, Patrick; Laney, Robin; Nuseibeh, Bashar and Tun, Thein Than
In : Proceedings of International workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-intensive Systems (16-18 Jan 2007, Limerick, Ireland) (pp. 109-118)

Composing features by managing inconsistent requirements (2007)
Laney, Robin; Tun, Thein Than; Jackson, Michael and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Feature Interactions in Software and Communication Systems (ICFI 2007) (3-5 Sep 2007, Grenoble, France) (pp. 141-156)

A framework for security requirements engineering (2006-05-20)
Haley, Charles B.; Moffett, Jonathan D.; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : Software Engineering for Secure Systems Workshop (SESS'06), co-located with the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'06) (20-21 May 2006, Shanghai, China)

Symmetric composition of musical concerns (2006-03)
Hill, Patrick; Holland, Simon and Laney, Robin
In : Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Aspect-oriented software development (20-24 Mar 2006, Bonn, Germany) (pp. 226-236)

Traceability and AOSD - From Requirements to Aspects (2006-03)
van der Linden, Janet; Laney, Robin and Thomas, Pete
In : Early Aspects, Conference for Aspect Oriented Software Development (AOSD'06) (20-24 Mar 2006, Bonn, Germany)

Patterns for service-oriented information exchange requirements (2006)
Mahfouz, Ayman; Barroca, Leonor; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : PLoP Pattern Languages of Programs 2006 (21-23 Oct 2006, Portland, Oregon)

Arguing security: validating security requirements using structured argumentation (2005)
Haley, Charles B.; Moffett, Jonathan D.; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : Third Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS'05) held in conjunction with the 13th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'05) (29 Aug 2005, Paris, France)

The Effect of trust assumptions on the elaboration of security requirements (2004-09-06)
Haley, Charles B.; Laney, Robin C.; Moffett, Jonathan D. and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : 12th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'04) (6-10 Sep 2004, Kyoto, Japan)

Composing requirements using problem frames (2004-09)
Laney, Robin; Barroca, Leonor; Jackson, Michael and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : 12th International Requirements Engineering Conference (6-10 Sep 2004, Kyoto, Japan) (pp. 122-131)

Using Problem Frames and projections to analyze requirements for distributed systems (2004-06-07)
Haley, Charles B.; Laney, Robin C. and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'04), co-located with the 16th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'04) (7-8 Jun 2004, Riga, Latvia)

Picking battles: The impact of trust assumptions on the elaboration of security requirements (2004-03-29)
Haley, Charles B.; Laney, Robin C.; Moffett, Jonathan D. and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Trust Management (iTrust'04) (29 Mar - 1 Apr 2004, Oxford, UK)

Deriving security requirements from crosscutting threat descriptions (2004-03)
Haley, Charles B.; Laney, Robin C. and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD'04) (22-26 Mar 2004, Lancaster, UK) (pp. 112-121)

Evolution of aspects for legacy system security concerns (2004-03)
Laney, Robin C.; van der Linden, Janet and Thomas, Pete
In : AOSD'04 International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (22-26 Mar 2004, Lancaster, UK)

Applying aspect-oriented programming to music computing (2004)
Hill, Patrick; Holland, Simon and Laney, Robin C.
(pp. 169-165)

Using Dynamic Aspects in Music Composition Systems (2004)
Hill, Patrick; Holland, Simon and Laney, Robin C.
In : 2004 Dynamic Aspects Workshop (DAW04) (23 Mar 2004, Lancaster, UK) (pp. 89-97)

Relating software requirements and architectures using problem frames (2002-09-09)
Hall, J.G.; Jackson, M.; Laney, R. C.; Nuseibeh, B. and Rapanotti, L.
In : Proceedings of the IEEE Joint International Conference on Requirements Engineering, 2002 (09-13 Sep 2002, Essen, Germany)

Other

Sustained and attack sounds of the hybrid instrument evaluation, along with simulations. Mouthpiece pressure and external pressures. (2016-08-19)
Buys, Kurijn; Sharp, David and Laney, Robin
The Open University

Are Your Lights Off? Using Problem Frames to Diagnose System Failures (2009-06-05)
Tun, Thein Tun; Jackson, Michael; Laney, Robin; Nuseibeh, Bashar and Yu, Yijun
Department of Computing, The Open University

Tool support to derive specifications for conflict-free composition (2008-07-31)
Tun, Thein Than; Laney, Robin; Jackson, Michael and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Department of Computing, The Open University

Introducing new features to a critical software system (2008-07-03)
Tun, Thein Than; Chapman, Rod; Haley, Charles; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Department of Computing, The Open University

Recovering Problem Structures from Execution Traces (2008-06-30)
Tun, Thein Than; Yu, Yijun; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Department of Computing, The Open University

Recovering Problem Structures to Support the Evolution of Software Systems (2008-04-05)
Tun, Thein Than; Yu, Yijun; Laney, Robin and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Department of Computing, The Open University

Composing Problems: Deriving specifications from inconsistent requirements (2005-05-06)
Laney, Robin; Jackson, Michael and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Department of Computing, The Open University

Validating Security Requirements Using Structured Toulmin-Style Argumentation (2005-03-21)
Haley, Charles B.; Laney, Robin C. and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Department of Computing, The Open University

Dynamic Assembly of Problem Frames (2004-04-22)
Barroca, Leonor; Fiadeiro, José L.; Jackson, Michael and Laney, Robin
Department of Computing, The Open University

Using Aspects to Help Composers (2003-12-15)
Hill, Patrick; Holland, Simon and Laney, Robin C.
Department of Computing, The Open University

Picking Battles: the Impact of Trust Assumptions on the Elaboration of Security Requirements (2003-12-05)
Haley, Charles B.; Laney, Robin C.; Moffett, Jonathan D and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Department of Computing, The Open University

An Example Using Problem Frames: Analysis of a Lighting Control System (2003-12-05)
Haley, Charles B.; Jackson, Michael A.; Laney, Robin C. and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Department of Computing, The Open University

Evolving Legacy System Security Concerns Using Aspects (2003-11-11)
Laney, Robin C.; van der Linden, Janet and Thomas, Pete
Department of Computing, The Open University

Deriving Security Requirements from Crosscutting Threat Descriptions (2003-10)
Haley, C. B.; Laney, R. C. and Nuseibeh, B. A,
Department of Computing, The Open University

Relating Software Requirements and Architectures Using Problem Frames (2002)
Hall, Jon G.; Jackson, Michael; Laney, Robin C.; Nuseibeh, Bashar and Rapanotti, Lucia
Department of Computing, The Open University

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