2026 Pete Sawyer: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	41	8677	8428	526	519	180	9533

Overview

Pete Sawyer is affiliated with Aston University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science, and Software.

Their recent publications cover various interdisciplinary themes and have appeared in several scholarly venues. These include:

Decision-making under uncertainty: be aware of your priorities, 2022, Software & Systems Modeling
Assessment of non-directed computer-use behaviours in the home can indicate early cognitive impairment: A proof of principle longitudinal study, 2022, Aging & Mental Health
A comparison of post-saccadic oscillations in European-Born and China-Born British University Undergraduates, 2020, PLoS ONE
A Bayesian network-based model to understand the role of soft requirements in technology acceptance, 2022, Proceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
Investigating the potential impact of values on requirements and software engineering, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

The main topics addressed by Pete Sawyer's work include:

Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Software Reliability and Analysis Research
Software System Performance and Reliability
Cognitive Functions and Memory
Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
Technology Use by Older Adults
Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Software & Systems Modeling
Aging & Mental Health
PLoS ONE
Proceedings of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing

Collaborations have included multiple co-authors, with whom Pete Sawyer has published repeatedly. These frequent collaborators include:

Nelly Bencomo (6 publications)
Alistair Sutcliffe (4 publications)
Luis H. Garcia Paucar (2 publications)
Alistair C. Darby (2 publications)
Huma Samin (1 publication)

Best Publications

Requirements Engineering: A Good Practice Guide

Ian Sommerville;Pete Sawyer

2072
Citations
Ethnographically-informed systems design for air traffic control

R. Bentley;J. A. Hughes;D. Randall;T. Rodden

660
Citations
Early aspects: a model for aspect-oriented requirements engineering

A. Rashid;P. Sawyer;A. Moreira;J. Araujo

424
Citations
RELAX: Incorporating Uncertainty into the Specification of Self-Adaptive Systems

Jon Whittle;Pete Sawyer;Nelly Bencomo;Betty H.C. Cheng

375
Citations
Viewpoints: principles, problems and a practical approach to requirements engineering

Ian Sommerville;Pete Sawyer

350
Citations
A Goal-Based Modeling Approach to Develop Requirements of an Adaptive System with Environmental Uncertainty

Betty H. Cheng;Pete Sawyer;Nelly Bencomo;Jon Whittle

325
Citations
Requirements-Aware Systems: A Research Agenda for RE for Self-adaptive Systems

Pete Sawyer;Nelly Bencomo;Jon Whittle;Emmanuel Letier

323
Citations
RELAX: a language to address uncertainty in self-adaptive systems requirement

Jon Whittle;Pete Sawyer;Nelly Bencomo;Betty H. C. Cheng

300
Citations
Requirements elicitation: Towards the unknown unknowns

Alistair Sutcliffe;Pete Sawyer

266
Citations
Viewpoints for requirements elicitation: a practical approach

I. Sommerville;P. Sawyer;S. Viller

246
Citations
Goal-Based Modeling of Dynamically Adaptive System Requirements

H.J. Goldsby;P. Sawyer;N. Bencomo;B.H.C. Cheng

206
Citations
Requirements reflection: requirements as runtime entities

Nelly Bencomo;Jon Whittle;Pete Sawyer;Anthony Finkelstein

196
Citations
Integrating ethnography into the requirements engineering process

I. Sommerville;T. Rodden;P. Sawyer;R. Bentley

195
Citations
Survey of Aspect-Oriented Analysis and Design Approaches

Ruzanna Chitchyan;A. Rashid;P. Sawyer;A. Garcia

184
Citations
An Exploratory Study of Information Retrieval Techniques in Domain Analysis

V. Alves;C. Schwanninger;L. Barbosa;A. Rashid

156
Citations
Architectural support for cooperative multiuser interfaces

R. Bentley;T. Rodden;P. Sawyer;I. Sommerville

134
Citations
Requirements process improvement through the phased introduction of good practice

Peter Sawyer;Ian Sommerville;Stephen Viller

127
Citations
Shallow knowledge as an aid to deep understanding in early phase requirements engineering

P. Sawyer;P. Rayson;K. Cosh

118
Citations
Dynamically Adaptive Systems are Product Lines too: Using Model-Driven Techniques to Capture Dynamic Variability of Adaptive Systems

Nelly Bencomo;Peter Sawyer;Gordon S. Blair;Paul Grace

116
Citations
Abnormalities of saccadic eye movements in dementia due to Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment.

Thomas D.W. Wilcockson;Thomas D.W. Wilcockson;Diako Mardanbegi;Baiqiang Xia;Simon Taylor

105
Citations
Software Requirements Engineering

G. Kotonya;Peter Sawyer

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian Sommerville University of St Andrews

Nelly Bencomo Durham University

Paul Rayson Lancaster University

Awais Rashid University of Bristol

Tom Rodden University of Nottingham

Alistair Sutcliffe University of Manchester

Jon Whittle Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Trevor J. Crawford Lancaster University

Betty H. C. Cheng Michigan State University

Hans Gellersen Aarhus University

External Links

Personal website of Pete Sawyer Google Scholar page

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