Farid MezianeFarid Meziane is a reader in software engineering in the School of Computing, Science and Engineering at the University of Salford (UK). He received a PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Salford (1994). His research interests are in th area of software engineering with particular emphasis on the integration of formal methods in the software development process, software quality and requirements engineering. His research is published in journals that include the Annals of Software Engineering , the Computer Journal , and the Journal of the Operational Research Society . He was awarded the highly commended award from the literati club in 2001 for a paper published in the Integrated Manufacturing Systems Journal . He is on the program committee of many international conferences, is a reviewer for the data and knowledge engineering journal, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering . He was the program chair and the organizer of the 9th International Conference on the Application of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB04). He is a chartered member of the British Computer Society. Read More Read Less