Abstract Business intelligence (BI) offers tremendous potential for business organizations to gain insights into their day to day operations, as well as longer te...
Abstract In many enterprises and other types of organizations, decision making is both a crucial and a challenging task. Despite their importance, many decisions ...
Abstract Context It is challenging to develop comprehensive, consistent, analyzable requirements models for evolving requirements. This is particularly critical ...
Abstract In order to adapt to a continuously changing environment, organizations are evolving their business objectives, processes, and operations through various...
Abstract Goal models represent interests, intentions, and strategies of different stakeholders. Reasoning about the goals of a system unavoidably involves the tra...
Abstract One significant problem requirements engineers have to cope with is the management of unclear requirements, ambiguities, and conflicts that may arise bet...
Abstract Context: In Canada, the justice system suffers from performance and efficiency issues as indicated by long wait time before trial. Actors in the justice ...
Abstract The healthcare sector faces important challenges in evaluating and improving its services to meet desired targets, patient needs, and government requirem...
Abstract The importance and usefulness of requirements engineering (RE) techniques (elicitation, analysis, modeling, change management, etc.) have been proven oft...
Abstract Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) has been used widely to guide decision making in multi attribute selection problems. Few studies have however pro...
Abstract Regulations are introduced by governments to ensure the well being, safety, and other societal needs of citizens and enterprises. Governments also create...
Abstract The SDL Forum Society exists since the early 1990’s and has led the organization of numerous conferences and workshops over the years. This paper perform...
Abstract The User Requirements Notation (URN) is a standard modeling language that includes two complementary views, one for goals with the Goaloriented Requireme...
Abstract Most goal oriented modeling languages, including i*, Tropos, KAOS and the Goal oriented Requirement Language (GRL), offer a graphical syntax, sometimes a...
Abstract Goal modeling and analysis with the Goal oriented Requirement Language (GRL) is taught in software engineering and computer science at the University of ...
Abstract The Systems Modeling Language (SysML) is a popular and standardized UML profile for systems engineering applications. In addition to seven conventional U...
Abstract One of the main issues in software maintenance is the time and effort needed to understand software. Software documentation and models are often incomple...
Abstract The Test Description Language (TDL) is an emerging standard from the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that targets the abstract des...
Abstract A modelling language usually has an abstract syntax (e.g., expressed with a metamodel) separate from its concrete syntax. The question explored in this p...
Abstract Emerging cyberjustice systems are in need of relevant requirements engineering approaches, for example, to provide citizens with better access to the jud...
Abstract Goal models can capture the essence of legal and regulation statements and many of their relationships, enabling compliance analysis. However, current go...
Abstract Much research is ongoing to assess and improve compliance to laws and regulations. As this domain continues to grow and mature, and with more modelling m...
Abstract Formal methods can be used at all stages of a software development project. In this paper we reflect on the roles of ITU T standardized System Design Lan...
Abstract A systematic way for treating non functional (quality) attributes into the business process management lifecycle is still a challenge. The agnostic, int...
Abstract The agnostic, integrated and automated treatment of non functional (quality) attributes into a business process realization is still a challenge. While ...
About Use Case Maps The Use Case Map (UCM) visual scenario notation, part of the URN standard, describes causal flow of responsibilities optionally superimposed o...
Abstract Testing represents one of the major concerns in nowadays system development, since it provides both confidence in the product and enriches the quality of...
Abstract Requirements are artefacts often described with text and models. It is important to manage traceability between requirements and other software artefact...
Abstract Most systems and business processes in organizations need to comply with more than one law or regulation. Different regulations can partially overlap (e...
Abstract In this paper, we consider the use of i* for modelling social networks in the context of mega urbanization and water resources. In particular, we discus...
Abstract The purpose of the Requirements Definition and Analysis Language (RDAL) annex is to support the modeling and analysis of requirements, and the verificat...
Abstract The environments in which businesses currently operate are dynamic and constantly changing, with influence from external and internal factors. When busi...
Abstract A Use Case Map (UCM) is a scenario based visual notation facilitating the requirements definition of complex systems. A UCM may be generated either from...
Abstract Compliance means to ensure that business practice and processes are aligned at commonly accepted norms. Companies are expected to comply with an increas...
Abstract Business processes, goals, and tasks of individuals in an Enterprise must constantly be aligned with several regulations, standards, policies and EA pri...
Abstract Every year, governments introduce new or revised regulations that are imposing new types of requirements on software development. Analyzing and modeling...
Abstract Business intelligence (BI) is perceived as a critical activity for organizations and is increasingly discussed in requirements engineering (RE). RE can ...
Abstract We propose to identify modeling situations highlighting elementary actions on modeling artifacts such as models and meta models. We believe that identif...
Abstract PCurrent modeling approaches for designing services do not address the characteristics of collaborative business to business (B2B) service engagements. ...
Abstract Adopting Open Source Software (OSS) components in organisational settings requires valuating the possible impact of adoption decisions on business goals...
Abstract Software architecture design is known to be driven by the quality attributes we may want to satisfy. Among them, modifiability plays an important role s...
Abstract Creating and reasoning with goal models is useful for capturing, understanding, and communicating about requirements in the early stages of information ...
Abstract Goal models represent interests, intentions, and strategies of different stakeholders in early requirements engineering. When capturing requirements of ...
Abstract Many applications of operations research are used to support managers in making intelligent decisions. Designing of reliable and effective decision makin...
Abstract Internetware is an emerging software paradigm in the open, dynamic and ever changing Internet environment. A successful internetware must demonstrate ac...
Abstract A modelagem de processos de neg #243;cio #233; um recurso que vem sendo empregado com diversas finalidades, entre as quais, planejamento e alinhamento ...