Information modeling is concerned with the construction of computer-based symbol
structures which capture the meaning of information and organize it in ways that make it …

A plethora of BPR methodologies have appeared in the literature during recent years,
however, most of them present serious limitations mainly due to the need for a multi …

Contextual Design unifies design, marketing, delivery, and support in a coherent response
to the customer. It gives a team activities focused on the customers and their work, rather …

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

Investigates and discusses the underlying nature of the requirements traceability problem.
Our work is based on empirical studies, involving over 100 practitioners, and an evaluation …

Goals capture, at different levels of abstraction, the various objectives the system under
consideration should achieve. Goal-oriented requirements engineering is concerned with …

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 …

Process n., A series of actions, changes, or functions that bring about an end or result.—
Webster's Dictionary As computers become more pervasive in everyday life, computer …

The paper describes a new project intended to provide a firmer theoretical and empirical
foundation for such tasks as enterprise modeling, enterprise integration, and process re …