Mohamed Boukhebouze, R. Ramdoyal, Dimitri Diakodimitris, U. Sangiorgi, Mathieu Zen, J. Vanderdonckt
{"title":"QualiHM: A requirement engineering toolkit for efficient user interface design","authors":"Mohamed Boukhebouze, R. Ramdoyal, Dimitri Diakodimitris, U. Sangiorgi, Mathieu Zen, J. Vanderdonckt","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861056","url":null,"abstract":"An effective User Interface (UI) is a key success factor for interactive systems. Hence, particular attention should be paid to the UI design during the Requirement Engineering process (RE). Several RE tools have been proposed in order to support the UI design. However, these tools have limitations in terms of requirements completeness, requirements quality analysis and UI generation from requirements. In this paper, we present a new RE toolkit called QualIHM, that deals with the limitations of the existing RE. The toolkit supports the description of requirements in different formats. In addition, QualiHM facilitates the UI design by transforming requirement formats from one to another, generating the UI code and providing feedback about the aesthetic of the UI.","PeriodicalId":288073,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130386231","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 roadmap for upgrading unupgradable legacy processes in Inter-Organizational Middleware Systems","authors":"Radhouane B. N. Jrad, M. D. Ahmed, D. Sundaram","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-48021-3_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48021-3_10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":288073,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128538696","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":"Integrating user's profile in the query model for Social Information Retrieval","authors":"Chahrazed Bouhini, M. Géry, C. Largeron","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861091","url":null,"abstract":"Social Information Retrieval (SIR) exploits the user's social data in order to refine the retrieval, for instance in the case where users with different backgrounds may express different information needs as a same textual query. However, this additional source of information is not supported by the classical IR process. In this article, we propose an approach to generate the user profile from his social data. This generated profile is integrated within a SIR model allowing to personalize the list of documents returned to the user.","PeriodicalId":288073,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121194865","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":"Standards compliance helps value creation in agile projects","authors":"Zornitza Bakalova, M. Daneva, T. Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861054","url":null,"abstract":"Compliance with standards or levels in maturity models and agile approaches are two radically different ways to address and achieve software quality. There is a mixed understanding of the possibility for their co-existence within an organization. Outside of the dogmatic debate regarding their co-existence, however, voices have been raised recently to recognize that both approaches have their merits, and perhaps, can be combined. This paper presents the results of an interview-based exploratory case study on the practices that an agile-by-design organization has put in place in order to profit from the opportunities that compliance to a quality standard can offer in respect to value creation for clients. Our conclusions are (i) that being compliant with a standard helps an agile company achieve client satisfaction, improved product quality and waste reduction; and (ii) that standards compliance does not necessarily impose significant changes on the agile process of an organization. Implication for practice is twofold: our results indicate (1) that agile organizations should strive for becoming more mature as this brings additional benefits, and (2) that for organizations to get standards-compliant there is a need of guidelines to direct them in complementing their agile processes with standards-compliant practices.","PeriodicalId":288073,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126308915","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":"Evaluating rogue user testing in industry: An experience report","authors":"S. Bauersfeld, A. S. Rojas, T. Vos","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861051","url":null,"abstract":"Testing applications with a graphical user interface (GUI) is an important, though challenging and time consuming task. The state of the art in the industry are still capture and replay tools, which may simplify the recording and execution of input sequences, but do not support the tester in finding fault-sensitive test cases and leads to a huge overhead on maintenance of the test cases when the GUI changes. In earlier works we presented the Rogue User Testing Tool, an automated approach to testing applications at the GUI level whose objective is to solve part of the maintenance problem by automatically generating test cases based on a structure that is automatically derived from the GUI. In this paper we report on our experiences obtained when implanting the Rogue User testing Tool with the Spanish software vendor Clavei who decided to apply the tool to stress test a component of one of their ERP applications. Our main goal was to identify potential problems that arise during the setup of the Rogue User. While carrying out our tests, we discovered critical and previously unknown faults in the application under test.","PeriodicalId":288073,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128086778","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":"User-annotated microtext data for modeling and analyzing users' sociolinguistic characteristics and age grading","authors":"N. Moseley, Cecilia Ovesdotter Alm, M. Rege","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861046","url":null,"abstract":"Information from Twitter messages have become an important area for research in computational analysis of natural language. As yet, much latent user attribute analysis on Twitter is unexplored. One reason is that only few latent attributes are explicitly defined by users on Twitter. This work presents and analyzes a data set annotated by Twitter users themselves for age and other useful attributes for use in latent attribute inference applications. We report on statistical analysis of the collected latent attributes and tweet information using association mining.","PeriodicalId":288073,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127640045","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":"Research paradigms and topics in Enterprise Engineering analysis of recent conferences and workshops","authors":"W. Molnar, J. Korhonen","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861071","url":null,"abstract":"Enterprise Engineering (EE) is about purposeful design of enterprises and their transformative activities. It is an interdisciplinary domain, which draws largely on information systems and organizational science. Not unlike these fields, EE would benefit from a variety of research approaches to study the engineering of socio-technical systems. To analyze the prevalence of different research paradigms and the composition of research topics in the EE field, we examined 115 research papers in the field as presented in four pertinent conferences in 2009-2013: the Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation (PRET), Enterprise Engineering Working Conference (EEWC) as well as relevant tracks in the Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS) and in the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). As per this analysis, the social aspect seems to be under-investigated and the interpretive paradigm under-represented in the EE research, while there seems to be a bias towards technical focus and the functionalist paradigm. The analysis ascertained the need for further evolvement of the EE discipline through more attention to social aspects and a more balanced variety of research approaches. We view that this will balance the course of advancing EE theories with the integration of gathered insights. With this paper, we want to instill a debate on the need for alternative research paradigms and for research on social aspects in the field of EE.","PeriodicalId":288073,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124242469","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 design of adaptive acquisition of users feedback: An empirical study","authors":"Malik Almaliki, Cornelius Ncube, Raian Ali","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861076","url":null,"abstract":"Users' feedback is a main source of knowledge on how users perceive the role of software in meeting their requirements. Collectively, such feedback helps shaping software autonomous and semi-autonomous adaptation decisions of what is called Social Adaptation. It also helps developers to identify loci in the system where an evolution should be introduced in the next release. Despite this role of users' feedback, there is a lack of systematic engineering approaches on how to design its acquisition mechanisms. In this paper, we observe that the acquisition of feedback should be itself adaptive to the context of use. We conduct an empirical study following a mixed-method sequential exploratory approach to explore the main drivers of such adaptation and understand users' attitude when being asked to provide feedback. Our findings are meant to enrich the knowledge base for developers and researchers in users-centric, or crowd-centric, adaptation. It also highlights areas of study for a future research in the area.","PeriodicalId":288073,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129766488","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}
Markus Hipp, Bela Mutschler, Bernd Michelberger, M. Reichert
{"title":"Navigating in process model repositories and enterprise process information","authors":"Markus Hipp, Bela Mutschler, Bernd Michelberger, M. Reichert","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861039","url":null,"abstract":"Although process-aware information systems have been adopted in enterprises for many years, they still do not properly link the business processes they implement with related enterprise process information (e.g., guidelines, checklists, templates, and e-mails). On one hand, process management technology is used to design, implement, enact, and monitor processes. On the other, enterprise process information is spread over various sources like shared drives, databases, and enterprise information systems. As a consequence, users often manually link process information with particular process objects (e.g., using process portals). What is needed instead, however is an integrated access to both processes and related enterprise process information. This paper establishes such a link by introducing an integrated navigation space for process model collections and related enterprise process information. In particular, this navigation space allows process participants to flexibly navigate within process model collections, single process models, and related process information. In turn, this enables advanced end-user support for process repositories.","PeriodicalId":288073,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130522904","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":"Randomized algorithm for Information Retrieval using past search results","authors":"Claudio Gutiérrez-Soto, G. Hubert","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861068","url":null,"abstract":"In Information Retrieval, past searches are a source of useful information for new searches. This paper presents an approach for reusing past queries submitted to an information retrieval system and their returned results to build the result list for a new submitted query. This approach is based on a Monte Carlo algorithm to select past search results to answer the new query. The proposed algorithm is easy to implement and does not require learning. First experiments were carried out to evaluate the proposed algorithm. These experiments used a simulated dataset (i.e., document collections, queries and judgments of users are simulated). The proposed approach was compared with a traditional approach of information retrieval, showing better precision for our proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":288073,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128074529","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}