Pericles Loucopoulos

A Meta-Meta-Model for Seven Business Process Modeling Languages

Many different business process modelling languages (BPMLs) have been designed in recent years. In cross-organizational business processes and heterogeneous organizations where multiple BPMLs are deployed there is a need for a unified view to ease communication and foster understandability. This paper proposes a language independent abstraction of seven mainstream BPMLs concepts, in a unified meta-meta model based on an analysis of these modelling languages. Generic concepts are identified and a unified metamodel is developed. An ontological analysis of the representational capability of this metamodel is examined in relation to the Bunge-Wand-Weber ontology and applicability of the approach is demonstrated via an Example.

Classification and Qualitative Analysis of Non-Functional Requirements Approaches

A considerable number of methods and tools have been proposed for the treatment of non-functional requirements (NFRs). There is ample evidence that NFRs play a significant role in the Information Systems Engineering process. However, there is surprisingly an absence of an agreed position regarding the definition of NFRs, their classification and presentation. This paper reports on a systematic literature review of the documented NFR approaches, classifies these approaches according to different criteria and provides a qualitative analysis of their scopes and characteristics. The results of this analysis can serve system developers as the means of deriving appropriate methods and tools of NFRs engineering process in the system development.

Combining Tools to Design and Develop Software Support for Capabilities

Analyzing, designing and implementing software systems based on the concept of capabilities have several benefits, such as the ability to design efficient monitoring of capabilities and their execution context. Today, there exist new model-driven methods and development tools that support capability-based analysis, design, and implementation. However, there are also a plethora of existing efficient development tools that are currently in use by organizations. In this article, we examine how a new set of capability based tools, the Capability Driven Development (CDD) environment, can be combined with model-driven development tools to leverage both novel capability-based functionality and the proven functionality of existing tools. We base the examination on a case study where an existing model-driven tool is combined with the CDD environment.

QRA: A Quality Requirements Analysis Approach for Service Systems

Although quality requirements (QRs) are considered as being of crucial importance in todays service-oriented systems, existing approaches almost exclusively deal with QRs from the service providers perspective (namely late QRs). The motivation for this paper is to address the analysis of QRs from the service customers perspective (namely early QRs). The work presented in this paper focuses on the way that early QRs may be modeled and evaluated and demonstrates this approach on a stock trading service system - a real-world practice taken from an international firm in the financial sector. We focus on three QRs that are critical to service systems and especially that of stock trading, namely performance, availability and security. We introduce a modeling paradigm that extends the well-known UML Activity Diagram by explicitly representing these three QRs as an integral part of business process modeling and augments this modeling with quantitative and qualitative reasoning that together provide the means for enhanced decision making by service customers.

Representing and Elaborating Quality Requirements: The QRA Approach

This paper presents the quality requirements analysis

Selected Topics on Advances in Capability-Oriented Information Systems Development: Editorial Introduction to Issue 10 of CSIMQ

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Requirements Engineering for Emergent Application Software

approach to requirements modeling. The

The Case of Industrial Symbiosis

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Regulatory Requirements Compliance in e-Government System Development: an Ontology Framework

approach supports functional and non-functional requirements modeling in three dimensions: First, it extends functional goal modeling with non-functional goals. Second, it injects QR quality requirement specification into business process models. Third, it provides a set of rules for elaborating and refining QRs alongside functional decomposition of business processes. This paper describes

Enabling Smart Objects in Cities Towards Urban Sustainable Mobility-as-a-Service: A Capability - Driven Modeling Approach.

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