Intentional Perspectives on Information Systems Engineering

Requirements engineering has since long acknowledged the importance of the notion that system requirements are stakeholder goals—rather than system functions—and ought to be elicited, modeled and analyzed accordingly. In this book, Nurcan and her co-editors collected twenty contributions from leading researchers in requirements engineering with the intention to comprehensively present an overview of the different perspectives that exist today, in 2010, on the concept of intention in the information systems community. These original papers honor Colette Rolland for her contributions to this field, as she was probably the first to emphasize that ‘intention’ has to be considered as a first-class concept in information systems engineering. Written by long-term collaborators (and most often friends) of Colette Rolland, this volume covers topics like goal-oriented requirements engineering, model-driven development, method engineering, and enterprise modeling. As such, it is a tour d’horizon of Colette Rolland’s lifework, and is presented to her on the occasion of her retirement at CaISE 2010 in Hammamet, the conference she once cofounded and which she helped to grow and prosper for more than 20 years.

From Sustainable Information System with a Farandole of Models to Services.- On Roles of Models in Information Systems.- Contemporary Challenges in Requirements Discovery and Validation: Two Case Studies in Complex Environments.- Semantic Requirements Engineering.- Goal-Based Domain Modeling as a Basis for Cross-Disciplinary Systems Engineering.- Intentional Alignment and Interoperability in Inter-Organization Information Systems.- Requirements Engineering for Enterprise Systems: What We Know and What We Don’t Know?.- Requirements as Goals and Commitments Too.- A Method for Capturing and Reconciling Stakeholder Intentions Based on the Formal Concept Analysis.- Fostering the Adoption of i * by Practitioners: Some Challenges and Research Directions.- Rights and Intentions in Value Modeling.- An Intentional Perspective on Enterprise Modeling.- A Goal-Based Approach for Learning in Business Processes.- Linking Goal-Oriented Requirements and Model-Driven Development.- Testing Conceptual Schema Satisfiability.- A Systematic Approach to Define the Domain of Information System Security Risk Management.- Methodologies for Design of Service-Based Systems.- Quality Assurance in the Presence of Variability.- Method Engineering: A Service-Oriented Approach.- Collaborative Requirements Engineering: Bridging the Gulfs Between Worlds.