Social inclusion of disabled performers in the performing arts: a case from Turkiye

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding for the social inclusion of disabled performers in a developing country to create awareness and improve policies/practices. Design/methodology/approach The study employed qualitative methodology, and data were collected through semi-structured interviews, site visits/observations and review of secondary data. Findings The data from different respondent groups showed the social inclusion should be reviewed at three levels: the state, society and individual. The review of existing policies revealed the neglect of the state regarding disabled people in general and even more so in performing arts due to the lack of enforcement of national and international agreements. Findings indicate that social inclusion of disabled performers is a minor issue, especially in a developing country where access to basic human rights and needs may be difficult. Amidst such difficulties, performing arts is not seen as a priority compared to other needs of disabled people and performers. Research limitations/implications Limitations include the limited number of disabled performers who could be identified and were willing to participate in the study. Those working in venues/public offices were also reluctant to participate. The greatest limitation was the broad lack of interest in disabled performers. Originality/value In Türkiye, studies on disabled people tend to focus on basic needs like health, education and employment. None, to best of researchers' knowledge, explore the social inclusion of disabled performers. This is an original study because it collects and discusses primary data on this topic, revealing the state-level negligence/oversight, the apathy of society and the degree to which an individual with disabilities must struggle to participate in performing arts. Consequently, this study shows the difficulty of developing social inclusion, equality and diversity in an emerging economy for disabled performers to raise awareness and present grounds for further legal enforcement. Moreover, implications allow for a global understanding of social inclusion that moves beyond a biased or privileged understanding/critique of disability centered on the developed world

Transformation of DEMO Metamodel into XML Schema

In this paper, we propose an approach to transform models derived by applying the Design and Engineering Methodology for Organizations (DEMO) into an exchangeable format. DEMO is based on a founded theory, the Ψ-theory, and satisfies the requirements to be a well defined domain modeling methodology. Having the DEMO models represented in an exchangeable format is beneficial for different types of applications supporting the information system development process. Applications used for the automatic analysis (simulation) of the DEMO models or for the identification of business components are just two examples to be mentioned

Enhancing Goal-based Requirements Consistency: an Argumentation-based Approach

International audienceRequirements engineering research has for long recognized the leading role of goals as requirement artifacts during the requirements engineering specification processes. Given the large number of artifacts created during the requirements specification and the continuous evolution of these artifacts, reasoning about them remains a challenging task. Moreover, the rising complexity of the target domain under consideration during the requirements engineering process as well as the growth of geographically distributed projects explain why the number of collected requirements as well as their complexity also increase. In this context, providing support to stakeholders in achieving a common understanding of a set of goal-based requirements, in consolidating them and keeping them consistent over time is another challenging task. In this paper, we propose an approach to detect consistent sets of goal-based requirements and maintain their consistency over time. Our approach relies on argumentation theory which allows to detect the conflicts among elements called arguments. In particular, we rely on meta-argumentation, which instantiates abstract argumentation frameworks, where requirements are represented as arguments and the standard Dung-like argumentation framework is extended with additional relations between goal-based requirements

Identifying Suitable Representation Techniques for the Prioritization of Requirements and Their Interdependencies for Multiple Software Product Lines

Software requirements typically do not exist independently of each other, rather most requirements have some type of dependency on another requirement [4]. For companies developing software products, which depend on each other, in so-called multiple software product lines (SPLs), systematic requirements management, including consideration for prioritization and inter‐ dependencies, is a time-consuming and convoluted task. Representation techniques for complex requirements can convey critical requirements interdependency information to make prioritization of requirements quicker and more accurate [1]. Based on reviewing the foremost literature, this paper identifies the representation techniques for requirements management which are most suitable for multiple software product lines (SPLs

Model driven development of semantic web enabled multi-agent systems

Semantic Web evolution brought a new vision into agent research. The interpretation of this second generation web will be realized by autonomous computational entities, called agents, to handle the semantic content on behalf of their human users. Surely, Semantic Web environment has specific architectural entities and a different semantic which must be considered to model a Multi-agent System (MAS) within this environment. Hence, in this study, we introduce a MAS development process which supports the Semantic Web environment. Our approach is based on Model Driven Development (MDD) which aims to change the focus of software development from code to models. We first define an architecture for Semantic Web enabled MASs and then provide a MAS metamodel which consists of the first class meta-entities derived from this architecture. We also define a model transformation process for MDD of such MASs. We present a complete transformation process in which the source and the target metamodels, entity mappings between models and the implementation of the transformation for two different real MAS frameworks by using a well-known model transformation language are all included. In addition to the model-to-model transformation, the implementation of the model-to-code transformation is given as the last step of the system development process. The evaluation of the proposed development process by considering its use within the scope of a real commercial software project is also discussed. © 2009 World Scientific Publishing Company.1.06E+10This work is partially funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) Electric, Electronic and Informatics Research Group (EEEAG) under grant 106E008 and TUBITAK National Scholarship Program for PhD Students. -

Modeling a BSG-E automotive system with the Timing augmented description language

International audienceModeling and analysis of time is a key issue for the correct development of automotive distributed embedded system. The paper presents the new extensions of the Time Augmented Description Language, applicable at the different abstraction levels of an EAST-ADL/AUTOSAR design, which enable a precise modeling of the multi clock characteristics of distributed systems together with parameterized timing expressions. In this paper, we highlight some critical issues for high-level modeling of time with the Delphi application of a Box Servitude Generic - External (BSG-E). This industrial example illustrates timing constraints coming from both hardware and software parts of the syste

Requirements Driven Data Warehouse Design: We Can Go Further

International audienceData warehouses (DW) are defined as data integration systems constructed from a set of heterogeneous sources and user's requirements. Heterogeneity is due to syntactic and semantic conflicts occurring between used concepts. Existing DW design methods associate heterogeneity only to data sources. We claim in this paper that heterogeneity is also associated to users' requirements. Actually, requirements are collected from heterogeneous target users, which can cause semantic conflicts between concepts expressed. Besides, requirements can be analyzed by heterogeneous designers having different design skills, which can cause formalism heterogeneity. Integration is the process that manages heterogeneity in DW design. Ontologies are recognized as the key solution for ensuring an automatic integration process. We propose to extend the use of ontologies to resolve conflicts between requirements. A pivot model is proposed for integrating requirements schemas expressed in different formalisms. A DW design method is proposed for providing the target DW schema (star or snowflake schema) that meets a uniformed and consistent set of requirements

Generating EAST-ADL Event Chains from Scenario-Based Requirements Specifications

International audienceReal-time software-intensive embedded systems complexity, as in the automotive domain, requires rigorous Requirements Engineering (RE) approaches. Scenario-based RE formalisms like Modal Sequence Diagrams (MSDs) enable an intuitive specification and the simulative validation of functional requirements. However, the dependencies between events occurring in different MSD scenarios are implicit so that it is difficult to find causes of requirements defects, if any. The automotive architecture description language east-adl addresses this problem by relying on event chains, which make dependencies between events explicit. However, east-adl event chains have a low abstraction level, and their relationship to functional requirements has seldom been investigated. Based on the east-adl functional architecture, we propose to use its central notion of event to conciliate both approaches. We conceived an automatic transformation from the high abstraction level requirements specified in MSDs to the low abstraction level event chains