{"title":"An overview of a SysML extension for goal-oriented NFR modelling: Poster paper","authors":"Christophe Gnaho, Farida Semmak, Régine Laleau","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577734","url":null,"abstract":"To develop quality software and systems, both functional and non-functional requirements need to be taken into account at the highest level of abstraction. However the issue of relationships between non-functional requirements and functional requirements has been rarely addressed. In this article, we outline an extension of the SysML requirements meta-model with relevant concepts of commonly used goal-oriented requirements engineering approaches. The main contribution of our approach is to analyse and describe the impact of non-functional requirements on functional requirements.","PeriodicalId":167136,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 7th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"19 4 Suppl 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128353681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The efficiency of strategic alignment: Determining the level of efficiency of the alignment of information systems with corporate strategy: Doctoral consortium paper","authors":"Laure Jeannerot","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577724","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the current state of the preliminary work done in research on the topic of efficiency of the alignment of an information system with the corporate strategy. The work is the result of investigating both professional and scientific literature, and includes feedback obtained from various companies in which the author has been working during the last six years on the context of advisory services. This research favours an empirical approach for the construction of a model to calculate efficiency within a company. In order to calculate the point of efficiency of strategic alignment, it is necessary to position the subject of the study in a framework and a specific and weighted ontology. The model resulting from the work will be tested and improved within one organization, before being rolled out for wider use.","PeriodicalId":167136,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 7th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121817628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Constantin Houy, Khulan Sainbuyan, P. Fettke, P. Loos
{"title":"Towards automated analysis of fads and trends in information systems research: Concept, implementation and exemplary application in the context of business process management research","authors":"Constantin Houy, Khulan Sainbuyan, P. Fettke, P. Loos","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577717","url":null,"abstract":"Information Systems (IS) research strives for the design of innovative as well as the investigation of existing methods and techniques for information management in organizations. IS methods and techniques can support the automation of operational tasks as well as management tasks in organizations. Furthermore, they offer considerable potential for the automation of research processes in IS research. This paper examines the potential and boundaries of automated analyses of fads and trends in the field of IS research based on a design-oriented research approach. A concept for automated trend analysis is developed and implemented in an innovative software tool. The proof of concept software is exemplarily applied for the investigation of fads and trends in Business Process Management (BPM) research as an important field in IS research. Moreover, the potential and boundaries of the presented approach are discussed.","PeriodicalId":167136,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 7th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125183233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adapting to uncertain and evolving enterprise requirements: The case of business-driven business intelligence","authors":"E. Yu, Alexei Lapouchnian, S. Deng","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577687","url":null,"abstract":"Information systems today are expected to function in an increasingly dynamic world with many uncertainties. System development is seldom a linear progression from well-defined, fully-specified requirements to finished products that fully meet the initial requirements. More likely, there are ongoing cycles of exploration, design and implementation, taking into account evolving needs and capabilities, as well as lessons from earlier cycles. Existing requirements modeling and analysis techniques largely presume application settings that are stable and predictable. Can these techniques be used to support analysis in the new dynamic environment? Scenarios from the recent surge in demand for business intelligence capabilities in enterprises provide an interesting setting for examining organizational and IT responses to the challenges of high uncertainty and rapid change. In this paper, we apply existing requirements modeling techniques to these scenarios in order to uncover their inadequacies, and to identify research challenges.","PeriodicalId":167136,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 7th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116385992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Monitoring user-system interactions through graph-based intrinsic dynamics analysis","authors":"Sebastien Heymann, B. L. Grand","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577695","url":null,"abstract":"Monitoring the evolution of user-system interactions is of high importance for complex systems and for information systems in particular, especially to raise alerts automatically when abnormal behaviors occur. However current methods fail at capturing the intrinsic dynamics of the system, and focus on evolution due to exogenous factors like day-night patterns. In order to capture the intrinsic dynamics of user-system interactions, we propose an innovative graph-based approach relying on a novel concept of time. We apply our method on two large real-world systems (the Github.com social network and the eDonkey peer-to-peer system) to automatically detect statistically significant events in a real-time fashion. We finally validate our results with the successful interpretation of the detected events.","PeriodicalId":167136,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 7th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122683577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jean-Marc Lecarpentier, Romain Brixtel, Hervé Le Crosnier, Cyril Bazin
{"title":"Extensible document-based model Web engineering","authors":"Jean-Marc Lecarpentier, Romain Brixtel, Hervé Le Crosnier, Cyril Bazin","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577713","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes an Extensible document-based model Web engineering approach. First, we propose a document model for multilingual composite documents. Building on work by librarians that lead to the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), our document model gathers all versions of a document in a tree structure. It describes the relations between a digital document's various versions, translations, formats, etc. Then we propose a model for document content. Document data and metadata are modeled with relations between entity nodes and data, bringing data and metadata to the same level in the design process. A cascading inheritance model is proposed to allow component reuse and rapid prototyping of applications. Finally, a relationship model enables the creation of application specific relations between documents. Sydonie, a free software framework, implements the proposed models. Implementation details are provided and illustrated using two applications built with the framework. A discussion offers a perspective on other approaches and a qualitative evaluation is provided. Finally, this paper concludes with perspectives and further work being carried out using our model and framework.","PeriodicalId":167136,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 7th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128999503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maurizio Leotta, F. Ricca, Marco Torchiano, G. Reggio
{"title":"Empirical evaluation of uml-based model-driven techniques: Poster paper","authors":"Maurizio Leotta, F. Ricca, Marco Torchiano, G. Reggio","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577735","url":null,"abstract":"In this poster, we sketch our research plan about a “massive” empirical evaluation of model-driven techniques following the first two already conducted steps in that respect (an exploratory survey and a series of controlled experiments concerning maintainability). We intend to experiment UML-based model-driven techniques in several contexts (e.g., desktop and Web applications), focusing on several software characteristics (e.g., maintainability and productivity) and employing empirical methods such as controlled experiments, surveys, case studies.","PeriodicalId":167136,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 7th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116283172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new event dispatch strategy to eliminate dispatch “glue”","authors":"Anthony Allevato, S. Edwards","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577710","url":null,"abstract":"In statically typed object-oriented languages such as Java, GUI event handling is traditionally handled through listener interfaces or similar types of polymorphic delegation. In the case of events that pass information about their source to the handling method, the programmer is required to perform runtime type checks to determine the true types of the components involved. This produces poorly designed code that contains a second layer of hand-written type-based dispatch before events can actually be handled. In this paper we present an alternative approach that builds this second dispatch layer into the underlying framework. The approach uses run-time reflection and overload resolution to automatically distinguish events based on method argument types, and to implicitly bind them to the event publishers. This approach combines the type safety of a statically typed language with the run-time flexibility of modern dynamic languages and enhances the readability of event handling code.","PeriodicalId":167136,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 7th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133315782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"TESSI: A web service testing tool: Demonstration paper","authors":"D. Petrova-Antonova, S. Ilieva, V. Stoyanova","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577741","url":null,"abstract":"Testing of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementations brings various challenges at infrastructure, service as well as orchestration level. In order to address these challenges the TASSA framework was developed for testing of web service orchestrations. The paper is focused on one of the TASSA framework tools, named TESSI (TESting of Service Implementations), providing test case generation, execution and management. The core functionality of the TESSI tool includes generation of SOAP request templates, definition of assertions at HTTP, SOAP and BPEL variable levels, support of data driven testing, test execution and management. Its first prototype is implemented as an open source plug-in for NetBeans IDE.","PeriodicalId":167136,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 7th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114904628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determining factors in ICT adoption by MSME's in agriculture clusters: An exploratory case study","authors":"G. Viscusi, F. Cabitza, A. Maurino, Fabio Stella","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2013.6577707","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we consider the case of the ICT adoption and use in an agriculture cluster in Lombardy, a northern region of Italy. At the state of the art, relationships among key factors of adoption and use of ICT in agriculture area received little attention by the academic literature. Thus, in this paper we aim to identify a research model in order to provide evidence of four different research questions concerning the determining factors for ICT adoption. The proposed case study reports and discusses the results obtained by analysing data from a survey of about 600 agricultural farms. Finally, Belief Bayesian Networks (BBNs) are used to analyse the complex influence relationships detected between research variables.","PeriodicalId":167136,"journal":{"name":"IEEE 7th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117028053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}