Associate Professor

College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

Publications & Presentations

• A.I. Anton, J.B. Earp, C. Potts & T.A. Alspaugh, The role of policy and stakeholder privacy values in requirements engineering, Proc. RE'01: International Symposium on Requirements Engineering, Toronto, August 2001(Paper: PDF)

• C. Potts, Metaphors of Intent, Proc. RE'01: International Symposium on Requirements Engineering, Toronto, August 2001 (Paper: PDF)

• A. Ohnishi & C.Potts, <<REFSQ>>

• A. Anton & C. Potts, Functional paleontology: System evolution as the user sees it, Proc. International Conf. Software Engineering, Toronto, May 2001. (Paper: PDF) (Presentation [you have to imagine the transition effects]: HTML) (See also Georgia Tech, Software Engineering Forum talk, 1999 slides, 2-up: PDF)

• C.Potts, Everything a Requirements Engineer Ever Wanted to Know about Cognitive Linguistics (But Were Afraid To Ask), Workshop on Requirements Engineering, London, April, 2001.(Slides, 2-up: PDF)

• C. Potts, IT Features: Benefits, burdens, and "bloat". Invited talk, Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), University of Toronto, March, 2001. (Slides, 2-up: PDF)

• C. Potts, <<SREIS>>

• I. Hsi & C. Potts, Studying the evolution and enhancement of software features, International Conference on Software Maintenance. San Jose, CA: October, 2000 (Paper: PS)(Slides 2-up: PDF)

• R.L. Hobbs & C. Potts, Hyperscenarios: A framework for active narrative, Proc. ACM Southeast Conference, Clemson, SC, April, 2000. (Paper: PDF)

• C. Potts, Today, Software Engineering; Tomorrow, the World, Georgia Tech, Software Engineering Forum talk, March 2000. (Slides, 2-up: PDF)

• C. Potts, Features, Fitness and Variation, Georgia Tech, Software Engineering Forum talk, 1999. (Slides, 2-up: PDF)

• C. Potts, What Do Programs Think About Life? GA Tech Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU) talk (Slides, 2-up: PDF)

• C. Potts, If a Palm Pilot Could Speak, Would We Understand It? Georgia Tech, Cognitive Science Group seminar, 1999. (Slides, 2-up: PDF)

• C.Potts & A. Anton, A representational framework for scenarios of system use, Requirements Engineering <<ref>> (Paper: PS)

• C.Potts, ScenIC: A strategy for inquiry-driven requirements determination, Proc. RE'99: International Symposium on Requirements Engineering, Limerick, Ireland. June, 1999 (Paper: PDF)

• C. Eastman, I. Hsi & C. Potts Coordination in Multi-Organization Design Projects, GA Tech Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center (GVU) Tech Report & talk; also invited talk at University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. (Tech report: PDF) (GVU slides, 2-up: PDF) (GVU slides: HTML)

• C.Potts, A collection of desert-island books on software engineering, Automated Software Engineering <<ref>> (Paper: PDF)

• A. Anton & C. Potts. The Use of Goals to Surface Requirements for Evolving Systems. International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'98), Kyoto, April 1998. (Paper: PDF) (Slides: PDF)

• C. Potts and I. Hsi., Abstraction and Context in Requirements Engineering: Toward a Synthesis, Annals of Software Engineering 9: 1-39, 1997.(Paper: PDF)

• G. Abowd, A. Goel, D. Jerding, M. McCracken, M. Moore, J.W. Murdock, C. Potts, S. Rugaber and L. Wills .  MORALE: Mission-Oriented Architectural Legacy Evolution. Proc. Int. Conf. Software Maintenance, Bari, Italy, October 1997. (Paper: PS)

• C. Potts, Fitness for Use: The System Quality that Matters Most. REFSQ'97: Third Int.Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. Barcelona, Spain: June 16-17, 1997.

• C. Potts, Patterns of Intent, CHI'97 Workshop on Pattern Languages for Interaction, Atlanta, GA, April 1997. (Paper: PDF) (Slides: HTML)

• C. Potts and W. Newstetter. Naturalistic Inquiry and Requirements Engineering: Reconciling their Theoretical Foundations. Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE'97), Annapolis, MD, January 7-10, 1997. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 118-127. (Slides, 2-up: PDF)

• C. Potts, Requirements Models in Context.(Invited keynote address). Proc. 3rd International Symposium on Requirements Engineering (RE'97), Annapolis, MD, January 7-10, 1997. IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 102-105. (Paper: PDF) (Slides, 2-up: PDF)

• C. Potts and L. Catledge. Collaborative Conceptual Design: A Large Software Project Case Study. Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: The Journal of Collaborative Computing, 5:.414-445, 1996. (Paper: PDF)

• C. Potts, Supporting Software Design: Integrating Design Methods and Design Rationale, in T. P. Moran & J. M. Carroll (Eds.), Design rationale: Concepts, techniques, and use. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996.

• C. Potts, What Models Model and What they Ignore, presentation at IFIP Working Group 2.9 (Requirements Engineering) meeting, Eugene, OR, June 1996 (Slides, 2-up: PDF)

• L. Catledge and C. Potts, Collaboration during Conceptual Design, Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Requirements Eng., (ICRE'96) Colorado Springs, CO, 1996 (Paper: PDF) (Long version is report GIT-CC-95-46: PDF)

• K. Takahashi, C. Potts, V. Kumar, K. Ota and J. Smith, Hypermedia Support for Collaboration in Requirements Analysis, Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. Requirements Eng. (ICRE'96), Colorado Springs, CO, 1996. (Long version: PDF)

• C. Potts, Using Schematic Scenarios to Understand User Needs, Proc. Symp. Designing Interactive Systems (DIS'95), Ann Arbor, MI, August, 1995, ACM. (Slides: HTML)

• C. Potts, K. Takahashi, J. Smith, and K. Ota, An Evaluation of Inquiry-Based Requirements Analysis for an Internet Service, Proc. RE'95: Second International Symposium on Requirements Engineering, York, UK, March, 1995, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1995.(Paper: PDF) (Long version: PDF)

• C. Potts, Invented Requirements and Imagined Customers: Requirements Engineering for Off-the-shelf Software (Invited workshop introduction paper), Proc. RE'95: Second International Symposium on Requirements Eng., York, UK March, 1995, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press. (Paper: PDF)

• C.Potts, Obstacles to Happy Endings, Poster summary, IFIP Working Group 2.9 (Requirements Engineering) meeting, Hampshire UK, March, 1995. (Paper: PDF)

• C. Potts, Requirements Completeness, Enterprise Goals, and Scenarios, Georgia State University, Computer Information Systems Department colloquium, January 1995.(Slides, 2-up: PDF)

• C. Potts, Goals, Policies and Requirements Completeness, White Paper for NSF/NIST Workshop on Policy Specification, George Mason University, December 1994. (Paper: PDF)

• A.Anton, M.McCracken and C.Potts, Scenarios and Goals in Business Process Reengineering, Sixth Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CaiSE'94), Utrecht, Netherlands, May, 1994.

• C.Potts, K.Takahashi and A.Anton, Inquiry-Based Scenario Analysis of System Requirements, Proc. International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE'94), Colorado Springs, CO, April, 1994 (Longer version is report GIT-CC-94/14: PDF)

• C. Potts, K. Takahashi and A. Anton, Inquiry-Based Requirements Analysis, IEEE Software, March, 1994. (Based on GIT-CC-94/14: PDF above)

• M. Moore and C. Potts, Learning by Doing: Goals and Experiences of Two Software Engineering Project Courses, Proc. 7th Conf. Software Engineering Education, San Antonio, January, 1994.

• C. Potts and K. Takahashi, An Active Hypertext Model for System Requirements, Proc. 7th Int. Workshop on Software Specification and Design (IWSSD7), Redondo Beach, December, 1993 (Paper: PDF)

• C.Potts, J.D.Bolter & A. Badre, Collaborative pre-writing with a video-based group working memory, GA Tech GVU TR-93-35 (Paper: PDF)

• C. Potts, Software Engineering Research Revisited, IEEE Software, September, 1993, pp. 19-28.

• M. Lubars, C. Potts and C. Richter, Developing Initial OOA Models, Proc. 15th Int. Conf. Software Eng., Baltimore, May, 1993, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 1993.

• M. Lubars, C. Potts and C. Richter, Review of the State of the Practice in Requirements Engineering, Proc. RE'93: 1st Int. Symposium on Requirements Eng., San Diego, January, 1993, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 1993.

• C. Potts, I Never Knew My Requirements were Object-Oriented until I Talked to my Analyst, (Introduction to refereed panel). Proc. RE'93: 1st Int. Symposium on Requirements Eng., San Diego, January, 1993, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 1993.

• C. Potts, Choices and Assumptions in Requirements Definition, Proc. RE'93: 1st Int. Symposium on Requirements Eng., San Diego, January, 1993, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 1993.

• M. Lubars, L.G. Meredith, C. Potts and C. Richter, Object-Oriented Analysis for Evolving Systems, Proc. 14th Int. Conf. Software Eng., Melbourne, Australia, May, 1992, ACM, 1992.

• C. Potts, Seven (Plus or Minus Two) Challenges for Requirements Research, Proc. 6th Int. Workshop on Software Specification and Design (IWSSD6), Como, Italy, October, 1991, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 1991.

• C. Potts, Expediency and Appropriate Technology: An Agenda for Requirements Engineering Research in the 1990s, in A. Van Lamsweerde and A. Fugetta (eds.) ESEC'91: Proc. 3rd. Eur. Software Eng. Conf., Milan, October, 1991" Springer- Verlag, LNCS 550, 1991.

• C. Potts, A Generic Model for Representing Design Methods, Proc. 11th Int. Conf. Software Eng., Pittsburgh, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 1989.

• J. Kramer, K. Ng, C. Potts and K. Whitehead, Tool Support for Requirements Analysis, Software Eng. Journal., May 1988, pp. 86-96.

• C. Potts, The Other Interface: Specifying and Visualising Computer Systems inG.C. Van Der Veer, T.R.G. Green, J.-M. Hoc and D.M. Murray (eds.) Working With Computers: Theory Versus Outcome, Academic Press, 1988

• C. Clegg, P. Warr, T. Green, A. Monk, N. Kemp, G. Allison and M. Lansdale in collaboration with C. Potts, R. Sell and I. Cole, People and Computers: How to Evaluate your Company's New Technology, Ellis Horwood, 1988.

• C. Potts and G. Bruns, Recording the Reasons for Design Decisions, Proc. 10th Int. Conf. Software Eng., Singapore, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 1988.

• A.C.W. Finkelstein and C. Potts, Building Formal Specifications Using Structured Common Sense, Proc. 4th Int. Workshop Software Specification and Design, Monterey, CA, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 1987.

• J. Kramer, K. Ng, C. Potts, A. Finkelstein, B. Khan, K. Whitehead, S. Chinnick, G. Brown and D. Galley, TARA: Tool-Assisted Requirements Analysis, RADC, also available as Imperial Coll., London, Dept. Computing Technical Report DoC 87/18, 1987.

• A.C.W. Finkelstein and C. Potts, Structured Common Sense: The Elicitation and Formalization of System Requirements, in D. Barnes and P. Brown (eds.) Software Engineering 86, (Proceedings of the British Comp. Soc. and IEE Conf. Software Eng.), Peter Peregrinus, 1986.

• C. Potts, A.C.W. Finkelstein, M. Aslett and J. Booth, Structured Common Sense: A Requirements Elicitation and Formalization Method for Modal Action Logic, Alvey Initiative Project Formal Specification Techniques for Real-Time Systems (FOREST) Final Report R2: Elicitation and Formalization Method, UK Science and Engineering Research Council and UK Department of Trade and Industry, 1986.

• R.J. Cunningham, A.C.W. Finkelstein, S.J. Goldsack, T.S.E. Maibaum and C. Potts, Formal Requirements Specification: The FOREST Project, Proc. 3rd Int. Workshop on Sofware Specification and Design, London, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 1985.

• C. Potts, Understanding Complex Descriptions, in G.C. Van Der Veer, M.J. Tauber, T.R.G. Green and P. Gorny (eds.), Readings on Cognitive Ergonomics: Mind and Computers, (Proc. 2nd Eur. Conf. Cognitive Ergonomics, Gmunden, Austria, September, 1984), Springer-Verlag, LNCS 178, 1984.

• C.Potts, A.J. Bartlett, B.H. Cherrie and R.I. Maclean, Discrete-Event Simulation as a Means of Validating JSD Design Specifications, Proc. 8th Int. Conf. Software Eng., London, 1984.

• R.I. Maclean, C. Potts, A.J. Bartlett, B.H. Cherrie, Validation: A disciplined approach,Proc. Process Workshop, Egham UK, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 1984.

• C. Potts (ed.) Proceedings of the Software Process Workshop, Egham UK, 1984, IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 1984.

• C. Potts. Understanding and Remembering Textual Information: The Effects of Message Structure Ph.D. Thesis, Sheffield University, 1983.