The main measure of the success of a software system is the degree to which it meets its
purpose. Therefore, identifying this purpose must be one of the main activities in the …

This paper focuses on the challenges of modeling cyber–physical systems (CPSs) that arise
from the intrinsic heterogeneity, concurrency, and sensitivity to timing of such systems. It …

The objective of this chapter is to give an overview of Tropos methodology. Tropos is based
on two key ideas. First, the notion of agent and related mentalistic notions, such as goals …

Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivate a methodology, called Tropos, 1 for
building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion …

Cyber security risk management plays an important role for today's businesses due to the
rapidly changing threat landscape and the existence of evolving sophisticated cyber attacks …

Essentially a software system's utility is determined by both its functionality and its non-
functional characteristics, such as usability, flexibility, performance, interoperability and …

Systems composed of interacting autonomous agents offer a promising software
engineering approach for develo** applications in complex domains. However, this …

Although security plays an important role in the development of multiagent systems, a
careful analysis of software development processes shows that the definition of security …

The work presented in this paper is related to the area of Situational Method Engineering
(SME) which focuses on project-specific method construction. We propose a generic …

Abstract Within Agile methods, User Stories (US) are mostly used as primary requirements
artifacts and units of functionality of the project. The idea is to express requirements on a low …