Reconstructing and Educating Interdisciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity is required: from those in charge at universities, policy-makers and leading researchers globally. It is essential, however, that interdisciplinarity be founded on a unified scientific theory so it is not a mere catchword but filled with substance of its own. This paper presents a conceptual framework, which allows the need-based reconstruction of interdisciplinary content. This is done using an example: the creation of a language-critical organization theory as part of Computer Science (CS), which seems to have entered the global discussion of the topics “Web Science”, “Enterprise Computer Science” or Services Science. Nowadays, because of “ubiquitous computing”, it is modeling in almost every scientific or business area and not programming, that is in the focus of a worldspanning System and Applied Computer Science

Requirement modeling for data warehouse using goal-UML approach: the case of health care

Decision makers use Data Warehouse (DW) for performing analysis on business information. DW development is a long term process with high risk of failure and it is difficult to estimate the future requirements for the decision-making. Further, the current DW design does not consider the early and late requirements analysis during its development, especially by using Unified Modeling Language (UML) approach. Due to this problem, it is crucial that current DW modeling approaches covered both early and late requirements analysis in the DW design. A case study was conducted on Malaysia Rural Health Care (MRH) to gather the requirements for DW design. The goal-oriented approach has been used to analyze the early requirements and later was mapped to UML approach to produce a new DW modeling called Goal-UML (G-UML). The proposed approach highlighted the mapping process of DW conceptual schema to a class diagram to produce a complete MRH-DW design. The correctness of the DW design was evaluated using expert reviews. The G-UML method can contribute to the development of DW and be a guideline to the DW developers to produce an improved DW design that meets all the user requirement

ASSESSING GOALS MODELLING TECHNIQUES FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF BUSINESS STRATEGIC PLANNING

La orientación a metas ha hecho importantes aportes a la Ingeniería de Requisitos. Las metas refinan la visión global del negocio, exponen el valor de un sistema/software y proporcionan la fundamentación para su desarrollo. No obstante, las bondades obtenidas de la Ingeniería de Requisitos Orientada a Metas no garantizan que los sistemas de software estén alineados con la estrategia del negocio, ni que contribuyan efectivamente a la proposición de valor. Como un medio para mejorar esta situación se plantea la utilización de la Planificación Estratégica en el direccionamiento de la Ingeniería de Requisitos Orientada a Metas, considerando que en este proceso se establecen las metas de más alto nivel y las estrategias del negocio. Dada la existencia de un grupo diverso de técnicas orientadas a metas, el objetivo de esta investigación es evaluar las técnicas de mayor difusión con el fin de determinar cuál satisface en mayor grado los requisitos de un proceso de Ingeniería de Requisitos dirigido por la Planificación Estratégica. La evaluación realizada se basó en el Análisis de Características propuesto por Kitchenham. El grupo de características establecido persigue examinar la capacidad de las técnicas para: (1) el modelado de los conceptos básicos de la Planificación Estratégica, y (2) la representación de metas en diferentes niveles de abstracción y sus interrelaciones.Goal orientation has made important contributions to Requirements Engineering. Goals refine the overall vision of business, expose the value of a system/software and provide the rationale for its development. However, the benefits obtained from Goal-oriented Requirements Engineering do not guarantee the strategic alignment of software systems nor do they effectively contribute to the value proposition. As a means to improve this situation, it is proposed the use of Strategic Planning for driving Goal-oriented Requirements Engineering, considering that this process defines the business highest level goals and strategies. Given the existence of a diverse group of goal-oriented techniques, the objective of this research is to assess the most widely used techniques in order to determine which one meets, in a higher degree, the requirements of a Strategic Planning-driven Requirements Engineering process. The evaluation was based on the Kitchenham´s Feature Analysis. The specified set of features pursues to examine the ability of the techniques for: (1) modelling the basic concepts of Strategic Planning, and (2) representing of goals at different levels of abstraction and their interrelationships

Balanced Goalcards: combining Balanced Scorecards and Goal Analysis

none3Today’s Information Systems are complex systems that have to deal with a variety of different and potentially conflicting needs. Capturing their strategic requirements is a critical activity, as it must answer at the same time to software and corporate goals. In this paper, we introduce the economic foundations of strategic requirements. We propose a novel conceptual framework for requirements modeling and validation, based on economic and business strategy theory. The soundness of the framework is also evaluated, by presenting the result of its application to a real case study.Alberto Siena; Alessio Bonetti; Paolo GiorginiSiena, Alberto; Alessio, Bonetti; Paolo, Giorgin