Self-adaptive software is capable of evaluating and changing its own behavior, whenever
the evaluation shows that the software is not accomplishing what it was intended to do, or …

Big Data Systems (BDSs) are an emerging class of scalable software technologies whereby
massive amounts of heterogeneous data are gathered from multiple sources, managed …

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 i* modeling language was introduced to fill the gap in the spectrum of conceptual
modeling languages, focusing on the intentional (why?), social (who?), and strategic (how …

Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering presents a systematic and pragmatic
approach tobuilding quality into'software systems. Systems must exhibit software quality …

Requirements are usually understood as stating what a system is supposed to do, as
apposed to how it should do it. However, understanding the organizational context and …

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 …

The Complete Business Process Handbook is the most comprehensive body of knowledge
on business processes with revealing new research. Written as a practical guide for …

One of the distinguishing elements of i* is its use of goals to ascribe intentions to actors. The
modeling and reasoning framework adopted for goals is derived from the softgoals of the …

The emergence of large language models and conversational front-ends such as ChatGPT
is revolutionizing many software engineering activities. The extent to which such …