Requirements Engineering for Service and Cloud Computing

Part I: Requirements Elicitation for Service and Cloud Computing.- What We Say We Want and What We Really Need: Experiences on the Barriers to Communicate Information System Needs.- Cloud Dimensions for Requirements Specification.- Analyzing Requirements Engineering for Cloud Computing.- Classification of Non-Functional Requirements of Web Services from Multi-Perspective View.- The Requirements Elicitation Approaches for Software-Defined Cloud Environments.- Part II: Requirements Specification for Service and Cloud Computing.- Formal Modelling of Enterprise Cloud Bus System: A High level Petri-Net Based Approach.- Requirements to Services: A Model to Automate Service Discovery and Dynamic Choreography from Service Version Database.- Architecturally Significant Requirements Identification, Classification and Change Management for Multi-Tenant Cloud-Based Systems.- Part III: Requirements Validation, Evaluation, and QoS for Service and Cloud Computing.- Cyber SecurityRequirements Engineering.- Appraisal and Analysis of Various Self-Adaptive Web Service Composition Approaches.- Transition from Information Systems to Service-Oriented Logical Architectures: Formalizing Steps and Rules with QVT.- Improving the QoS of a Composite Web Service by Pruning its Weak Partners.- Using Distributed Agile Patterns for Supporting the Requirements Engineering Process.

Dr. Muthu Ramachandran is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Computing, Creative Technologies, and Engineering at Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Prof. Zaigham Mahmood is a Senior Technology Consultant at Debesis Education UK and an Associate Lecturer (Research) at the University of Derby, UK. He also holds positions as Foreign Professor at NUST and IIU in Islamabad, Pakistan, and Professor Extraordinaire at the North West University Potchefstroom, South Africa. Among his many publications are the Springer titles Connectivity Frameworks for Smart Devices, Data Science and Big Data Computing, Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations and R&D Solutions, Continued Rise of the Cloud, Cloud Computing: Methods and Practical Approaches, Software Engineering Frameworks for the Cloud Computing Paradigm, and Cloud Computing for Enterprise Architectures.