Dr Amel Bennaceur

Senior Lecturer in Computing

Software Engineering Researcher with 12+ year experience doing research and development to make adaptive and intelligent systems trustworthy and assure their quality and resilience.

Driven by some burning intellectual curiosity, I love research and experimenting with novel ideas. I am an engineer at heart and I like building things and getting my hands dirty. I have strong math, logic, and problem solving foundation, which I believe is essential to develop good software. I believe that my success can only be complete through the success of others. Rather than getting the most out of everyone, I strive to lead with kindness and inclusivity to bring the best of everyone.


Publications

Akiki, Paul A., Zisman, Andrea and Bennaceur, Amel ,(2025). Resources don't grow on trees: A framework for resource-driven adaptation. The Journal of Systems and Software, 220

Gooch, Daniel, Bandara, Arosha K., Bennaceur, Amel, Giles, Emilie, Harkin, Lydia, Katz, Dmitri, Levine, Mark, Mehta, Vikram, Nuseibeh, Bashar, Stevenson, Clifford, Stuart, Avelie, Talbot, Catherine and Price, Blaine A. ,(2024). Reflections on using the story completion method in designing tangible user interfaces. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 192

Bennaceur, Amel, Ghezzi, Carlo, Kramer, Jeff and Nuseibeh, Bashar ,(2024). Responsible Software Engineering: Requirements and Goals. In: Werthner, Hannes; Ghezzi, Carlo; Kramer, Jeff; Nida-Rümelin, Julian; Nuseibeh, Bashar; Prem, Erich and Stanger, Allison eds. Introduction to Digital Humanism. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, pp. 299–315.

Gavidia-Calderon, Carlos, Kordoni, Anastasia, Bennaceur, Amel, Levine, Mark and Nuseibeh, Bashar ,(2024). The IDEA of Us: An Identity-Aware Architecture for Autonomous Systems. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 33(6),

Weyns, Danny, Calinescu, Radu, Mirandola, Raffaela, Tei, Kenji, Acosta, Maribel, Bennaceur, Amel, Boltz, Nicolas, Bureŝ, Tomáš, Cámara, Javier, Diaconescu, Ada, Engels, Gregor, Gerasimou, Simos, Gerostathopoulos, Ilias, Getir Yaman, Sinem, Grassi, Vincenzo, Hahner, Sebastian, Inverardi, Paola, de Lemos, Rogerio, Van Landuyt, Dimitri, Letier, Emmanuel, Litoiu, Marin, Marsso, Lina, Musil, Angelika, Musil, Juergen, Nunes Rodrigues, Genaína, Perez-Palacin, Diego, Quin, Federico, Scandura, Patrizia, Vallecilo, Antonio and Zisman, Andrea ,(2023). Towards a Research Agenda for Understanding and Managing Uncertainty in Self-Adaptive Systems. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, 48(4), pp. 20–36.

Abeywickrama, Dhaminda B., Bennaceur, Amel, Chance, Greg, Demiris, Yiannis, Kordoni, Anastasia, Levine, Mark, Moffat, Luke, Moreau, Luc, Mousavi, Mohammad Reza, Nuseibeh, Bashar, Ramamoorthy, Subramanian, Ringert, Jan Oliver, Wilson, James, Windsor, Shane and Eder, Kerstin ,(2024). On Specifying for Trustworthiness. Communications of the ACM, 67(1), pp. 98–109.

Bennaceur, Amel, Tun, Thein, Bandara, Arosha, Yu, Yijun and Nuseibeh, Bashar ,(2016). Feature-driven Mediator Synthesis: Supporting Collaborative Security in the Internet of Things. Department of Computing, The Open University.

Kordoni, Anastasia, Gavidia-Calderon, Carlos, Levine, Mark, Bennaceur, Amel and Nuseibeh, Bashar ,(2023). “Are we in this together?” : embedding social identity detection in drones improves emergency coordination. Frontiers in Psychology, 14

Bennaceur, Amel, Stuart, Avelie, Price, Blaine, Bandara, Arosha, Levine, Mark, Clare, Linda, Cohen, Jessica, Mccormick, Ciaran, Mehta, Vikram, Bennasar, Mohamed, Gooch, Daniel, Gavidia-Calderon, Carlos, Kordoni, Anastasia and Nuseibeh, Bashar ,(2023). Socio-Technical Resilience for Community Healthcare. In: TAS '23 First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, 11-12 Jul 2023, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Gavidia-Calderon, Carlos, Bennaceur, Amel, Lopez, Tamara, Kordoni, Anastasia, Levine, Mark and Nuseibeh, Bashar ,(2023). Meet your Maker: A Social Identity Analysis of Robotics Software Engineering. In: TAS '23 First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, 11-12 Jul 2023, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Projects

VocTeach

Themes

Software Engineering and Design

Topics

Health and Wellbeing

Learning and Education

Security and Policing, Forensics and Privacy

Urban and Smart living (incl Robotics)

Groups

Software Engineering and Design Group (SEAD)

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