Sam Supakkul

Independent Consultant
Ph.D. Candidate in Software Engineering
The University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Home: http://www.utdallas.edu/~supakkul
E-mail: ssupakkul (at) ieee (dot) org

Research Interests | Publications | Tools | About

Research Interests

• Requirements engineering
  • Non-functional requirements (NFRs) modeling, NFRs patterns
  • Business re-engineering and enterprise modeling
  • Agent-, goal-, problem-, and object-oriented modeling
• Software architecture
  • Quality-driven software architecting
  • Architecture and design patterns

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Publications

1. S. Supakkul, T. Hill, E. Oladimeji, and L. Chung, “Capturing, Organizing, and Reusing Knowledge of NFRs: An NFR Pattern Approach", Proc. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MaRK'09) in conjunction with RE'09, Atlanta, Sept. 1, 2009 [slides]
2. S. Supakkul, T. Hill, E. Oladimeji, and L. Chung, “Security Threat and Vulnerability Mitigation Patterns: A Case of Credit Card Theft Mitigation”, workshopped at Patterns Languages of Programs (PLoP'09), Chicago, Aug. 28-30, 2009 [paper]
3. S. Supakkul and L. Chung, “Extending Problem Frames to Deal with Stakeholder Problems: An Agent- and Goal-Oriented Approach”, Proc. the 24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (RE Track), Mar. 9-12, 2009, Honolulu, pp. 389-394 [paper, slides]
4. E. Oladimeji, S. Supakkul and L. Chung, “Model-Driven Development of Secure Software Architecture,” Intl. Conf. on Software and Knowledge Engineering, Boston, July 2007
5. E. Oladimeji, S. Supakkul and L. Chung, “Security Threat Modeling: A Goal-Oriented Approach,” Proc. SEA’06, Dallas, TX, Dec. 2006 pp. 178-185.
6. S. Supakkul and L. Chung, “Capturing and Reusing Functional and Non-Functional Requirements Knowledge,” Proc. IEEE IRI 2006 pp. 539-544 [paper, slides].
7. S. Supakkul, E. Oladimeji, and L. Chung, “Toward Component Non-functional Interoperability Analysis: A UML-based and Goal-Oriented Approach,” Proc. 1st IEEE Intl. Workshop on Software Architectures and Components Integration (SACI'06) 2006 pp. 351-358 [paper, slides (with animation for slide-show mode)]
8. S. Supakkul and L. Chung, “Applying an NFR-driven and Goal-oriented Approach in a Hazard Analysis: A Case Study”, Proc. SERA’06 , Aug. 9-11. Seattle, Washington. pp. 22-29 [paper, slides (with animation for slide-show mode)]
9. E. Oladimeji, S. Supakkul and L. Chung, “Representing Security Goals, Policies and Objects”, Proc. IEEE/ACIS 5th Intl. Conf. on Computer & Information Science (ICIS’06), July 12-14, Honolulu, pp. 160-167
10. S. Supakkul and L. Chung, “Representing, Organizing and Reusing Knowledge about both Functional and Non-Functional Requirements”, IRMA 2006, Washington D.C, May 21-24, 2006, pp 534-537 [slides]
11. L. Chung and S. Supakkul, “Reasoning about Functional and Non-Functional Concerns during Model Refinement”, IRMA 2006, Washington D.C, May 21-24, 2006, pp 816-819
12. L. Chung and S. Supakkul, “Representing NFRs and FRs: A Goal-Oriented and Use Case-Driven Approach”, W. Dosch, R. Y. Lee and C. Woo (Eds.), SERA 2004: Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3647/ 2005, pp. 29-41. [paper]
13. S. Supakkul and L. Chung, “A UML Profile for Goal-Oriented and Use Case-Driven Representation of NFRs and FRs”, Proc. SERA'05, IEEE Computer Society. pp. 112-121 [paper, slides (with animation for slide-show mode)]
14. S. Supakkul and L. Chung, “Integrating FRs and NFRs: A Use Case and Goal Driven Approach,” Proc., 2nd Intl. Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management & Applications (SERA'04), May 5 - 7, 2004, Los Angeles, CA., pp. 30-37 [paper, slides (with animation for slide-show mode)]
15. L. Chung, S. Supakkul and A. Yi, “Software Architecting Using Goals, Scenarios, Patterns, and Objects”, Proc. ICTS'03, August, 2003, Pasadena, CA
16. L. Chung, S. Supakkul and A. Yi, “Good Software Architecting: Goals, Objects and Design Patterns”, Information, Computing & Communication Technology Symposium (ICCT- 2002), UKC'02, July 8-11, 2002, Seoul, Korea [paper]
17. S. Supakkul and L. Chung, “Virtual OSGi Framework and Telecommunications”, Proc., 9th Intl. Conf. on Telecommunication Systems: Modeling and Analysis (ICTS2001), March 15-18, 2001, Dallas, TX, pp. 131-160

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Tools

I have developed a tool called the RE-Tools for Requirements Engineering. The following are the notations the tool supports:

• The NFR framework for non-functional requirements (NFRs) modeling
• The i* Framework/Tropos for agent-oriented modeling
• KAOS for formal goals modeling
• The Problem Frames for business and system requirements and specifications modeling

The RE-Tools is available here.

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About

I am an independent consultant and a Ph.D. candidate in Software Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Lawrence Chung, and a member of the Requirements Engineering Lab and the System/Software Architecture Lab at the University of Texas at Dallas. I have worked in the industry for 20 years in a number of industries including telecommunication, airlines, financial, and smart home applications.

Academia Activities

Program Committee

• International Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA 2010), Seoul, Korea, January 27 – 29, 2010 [CfP]
• Int'l Conf. on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA'09), Haikou, China, Dec. 2 - 4, 2009 [CfP]
• IEEE/ACIS 7th Int'l Conf. on Computer & Information Science (ICIS'09), Shanghai , China, May 14-16, June 1-3, 2009
• 10th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD'09), Daegu, Korea , May 27-29, 2009
• 9th ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD’08), Phuket, Thailand, August 6-8, 2008
• IEEE/ACIS 7th Int’l Conf. on Computer & Information Science (ICIS’08), Portland, May 14-16, 1008
• Int’l Conf. on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA’07), Busan, Korea, August 20 - 22, 2007
• IEEE/ACIS 6th Int’l Conf. on Computer & Information Science (ICIS’07), Melbourne, Australia, July 11-13, 2007
• IRMA Int’l Conference 2007, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 19-23, 2007
• Int’l Conf. on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA’06), Seattle, Washington, Aug. 9-11, 2006
• IEEE/ACIS 5th Int’l Conf. on Computer & Information Science (ICIS’06), Honolulu, July 12-14, 2006
• IEEE/ACIS 1st Int’l Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering, Software Architecture and Reuse (COMSAR06), Honolulu, July 12-14, 2006

  Session Chair

• IRMA 2006 Int’l Conference 2007, Washington D.C., May 21-24, 2006

  Book Reviewer

• E. Alkhalifa (editor), "E-Strategies for Resource Management Systems: Planning and Implementation", IGI Global (to be published)
• "Communications in Computer and Information Science" (CCIS Post-proceedings) , Springer, 2009
• R. Denney, “Succeeding with Use Cases”, Addison-Wesley, 2005
• G. Schneider, J. Winters, “Applying Use Cases: A Practical Guide”, Addison-Wesley, 1998

Industrial Activities (partial)

• Chief Software Architect, Digital Pockets, Dallas, 2000
• Software Architect, MCI, Richardson, 1998-2000
• Consultant
  • E-gate Matrix, Atlanta, 2003-2004
  • NEC America, Irving, 1994
  • American Airlines Decision Technologies, Fort Worth, 1990-1993

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© 2009 Sam Supakkul
Updated Oct. 15, 2009