{"title":"Software risk management: practice contra standard models","authors":"Jaana Nyfjord, M. Kajko-Mattsson","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632094","url":null,"abstract":"Little is known about the compliance of risk management models with the industrial practice and vice versa. In this paper, we compare the industrial risk management practice against a risk management model that we have synthesized from a set of current risk management models. This comparison has resulted in several discrepancies observed. As a result, this paper suggests a list of issues that need to be addressed in both the industrial and standard models.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"342 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123350134","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":"Ontology-based information retrieval: Overview and new proposition","authors":"O. Dridi","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632133","url":null,"abstract":"In order to solve the problem of information overkill, current information retrieval systems need to be improved. Much more ldquointelligencerdquo should be embedded to search systems to manage effectively search, retrieval, filtering and presenting relevant information. This can be done by ontology driven information retrieval, which is considered as one of the high-impact technologies for the next years. The paper provides an overview of ontology-based information retrieval techniques and software tools currently available as prototypes or commercial products. Systems are evaluated using feature classification, which incorporates general characteristics of tools and their information retrieval features. Eventually, we present our contribution in this domain of research.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"307 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121744161","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 modeling methodology and its application to the design of decision-making aid tools dedicated to the hospital systems","authors":"M. Chabrol, M. Gourgand, Sophie Rodier","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632103","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a modeling methodology for the hospital systems. This methodology has been developed to design decision making aid tools based on various resolution methods (mathematical formalization, simulation, etc.), which all start by the formalization of a knowledge model (knowledge formalization) related to the studied system. We present the different steps to follow from the knowledge model to the creation of decision making aid tools, along with two applications concerning a surgical unit and an obstetrical unit.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129273673","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}
B. Khosravifar, J. Bentahar, Maziar Gomrokchi, R. Alam
{"title":"An approach to comprehensive trust management in multi-agent systems with credibility","authors":"B. Khosravifar, J. Bentahar, Maziar Gomrokchi, R. Alam","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632093","url":null,"abstract":"Security is a substantial concept in multi-agent systems where agents dynamically enter and leave the system. Different models of trust have been proposed to assist agents in deciding whether to interact with requesters who are not known (or not very well known) by the service provider. To this end, in this paper we progress our work on security for agent-based systems, which is embedded in service providerpsilas trust evaluation of the counter part. Agents are autonomous software equipped with advanced communication (using public dialogue game-based protocols and private strategies on how to use these protocols) and reasoning capabilities. The service provider agent obtains reports provided by trustworthy agents (regarding to direct interaction histories) and referee agents (in the form of recommendations) and combines a number of measurements, such as number of interactions and timely relevance, to provide an overall estimation of a particular agentpsilas likely behavior. Requesting this agent, called the target agent, to provide the number of interactions it had with each agent, the service provider penalizes the agents who lied about having information for trust evaluation process. In addition, after a periodic time, the actual behavior of the target agent is compared against the information provided by others. This comparison leads to both adjusting the credibility of the contributing agents in trust evaluation and improving the system trust evaluation by minimizing the estimation error. Overall the proposed framework is shown to assist agents effectively perform the trust estimation of interacting agents.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127662581","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}
J. Ralyté, Xavier Lamielle, Nicolas Arni-Bloch, M. Léonard
{"title":"A framework for supporting management in distributed information systems development","authors":"J. Ralyté, Xavier Lamielle, Nicolas Arni-Bloch, M. Léonard","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632128","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing tendency towards globalisation and outsourcing of software and information systems (IS) development poses a number of challenges and difficulties that companies have to deal with. Quite a few studies have been conducted which have identified a set of problems as well as potential benefits of distributed systems development. In this paper we propose a framework characterising the domain of distributed information systems development (DISD) which aims to help project managers to analyse DISD project situation, identify potential problems and therefore evaluate project risks. Besides, the framework aims to indicate prospective solutions to each type of problem.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130360144","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":"Systems Science for selecting urban freight solution: Application to La Rochelle","authors":"Loic Delaitre, D. Breuil, Hugues Molet","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632130","url":null,"abstract":"The distribution of goods in the urban centres is essential for their prosperity. The experiences for optimising the transport of goods in cities are numerous. Most of them concentrate on the transport of traditional goods (without being concerned with an activity in particular), the others on the contrary are related to a precise sector (fresh products etc.). All these experiments are undertaken independently without taking into account the total organization of Goods Distribution (GD) inside the city. In this case, comes the role of the community as an organiser or conductor of these different flows. In this article, we focus on the cities of medium size that offer a particular context for the GD: the urban specificities play a relevant role on the dynamics of the flow of goods. In this framework, we develop a global approach whose objective is to improve GD in these cities. This approach is based on the urban specificities and suggests to communities a choice of potentially efficient actions to be applied. The proposed methodology considers two physical specificities of the city: the distribution of places concerned by the logistic activities and the distribution of places facilitating the transit of goods. Its principle rests on the concept of entropy for obtaining a representation of disorder related to logistic activities. Finally, we describe this approach by focusing on the experiments in development in the agglomeration of La Rochelle (FRANCE) under the cadre of European project SUCCESS of CIVITAS program.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116966612","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":"Method architecture for situational method engineering","authors":"N. Prakash, S. Goyal","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632122","url":null,"abstract":"Situational method engineering can be done using either method module based or intention-architecture, MIA, based approaches. The latter is organized in the three stages of requirements, design, and construction engineering. We focus here on elaborating the relationship between design and construction engineering of the MIA approach. The key concept in design engineering is that of method architecture. We define method architecture as an abstraction of the common properties of methods and propose a method architecture meta-model. At the construction engineering level, we represent a method as a method organisation. Method architecture can be implemented as one or more method organisations. We show that the MIA based approach is generic and can be used to engineer information systems development methods as well as business process models.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124985864","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":"Challenges of model transformation and a solution framework","authors":"Yucong Duan","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632113","url":null,"abstract":"Firstly this draft presents a discussion of the possible challenges of model transformation (MT) approaches and related issues. Then after acknowledging the great achievements and successes in MTs, we propose to study MTs from an open and general cognitive background which differs from most current practice. Issues under study cover the broad scope of openness, incompleteness, uncertainty, quality management, human vs. machine aspects, etc, in the evolving process composed of MTs. A solution framework is proposed for the advancement of the state of art.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128349673","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":"AADL behavioral annex based on generalized rewriting logic","authors":"M. Benammar, F. Belala, F. Latreche","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632087","url":null,"abstract":"AADL is an architecture description language based on the MetaH language which describes an embedded system, as a collection of interacting components. The AADL standard associates automata to define dynamic semantics for a thread component. The threads can be in various states such as halted, inactive, or active. An active thread can be waiting for a dispatch, AwaitDispatch state, or computing, Compute state, etc. In this paper, we give a natural semantic model to the thread Compute state, and we associate to the thread component a behavioral annex based on generalized rewriting logic. This allows formal description and analyzing of a thread configuration. Our formalization includes static aspects of thread, and also dynamic ones. The associated models are described by functional and system modules of Maude which is a declarative language based on rewriting logic. Our approach interest is to be able to formally check a large set of properties of AADL threads via analysis tools of Maude environment.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116725305","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":"Designing an agile methodology for mobile software development: A hybrid method engineering approach","authors":"V. Rahimian, Raman Ramsin","doi":"10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RCIS.2008.4632123","url":null,"abstract":"New Advances in mobile computer technology and the rapid growth of wireless networks in quality and quantity has introduced new applications and concerns in computer science and industry. The unique requirements and constraints associated with mobile systems have brought new challenges to software development for such environments, as it demands extensive improvements to traditional systems development methodologies in order to fulfill the special needs of this field. We examine the challenges of developing software for mobile systems, starting by reviewing mobile systemspsila characteristics and investigating the status quo of mobile software development methods. It has been shown that Agile methodologies are appropriate methods for the development of such systems; based on this assumption, we identify specific requirements for a mobile software development methodology, based on which a new agile method is engineered using the Hybrid Methodology Design approach. We claim that this methodology, and the approach used for its construction, can facilitate the application of a software engineering approach to the production of mobile software systems.","PeriodicalId":416272,"journal":{"name":"2008 Second International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121855810","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}