Information systems of the future will have to better match their operational organizational environment. Unfortunately, development methodologies have traditionally been inspired by programming concepts, not organizational ones, leading to a semantic gap between the system and its environment. To reduce as much as possible this gap, this talk proposes a development methodology named "Tropos" which is founded on concepts used to model early requirements. Our proposal adopts the i*organizational modeling framework, which offers the notions of actor, goal and (actor) dependency, and uses these as a foundation to model early and late requirements, architectural and detailed design. The talk outlines Tropos phases through an e-business example. The methodology seems to complement well proposals for agent-oriented programming platforms.
Miércoles 23 de Mayo de 2001, 12:30 hs. Sala de Juntas E.T.S.I.de Informática
Organiza: Dpto. de Lenguajes y Cienciasde la Computación.
As the size and complexity of software systems grows, the interest in developing systems based on reusable components increases –known in literature as COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) components. The potential benefits of this new technology are reduced costs and shorter development time.
In particular, the success of COTS-based systems largely depends on the selection process because it is at this moment when the characteristics of each candidate product are evaluated, as well as their conformance to the stakeholders’ requirements.
The main contribution of this research is the CRE (COTS-based Requirements Engineering) method. It emphasizes the modeling and analysis of non-functional requirements in order to help the decision making process between candidate products and contribute to the selection process success.
Viernes 25 de Mayo de 2001, de 12:00 a 14:00 hs. Seminario 3.3.1
Organiza: Dpto. de Lenguajes y Cienciasde la Computación.