Ontological support for managing non-functional requirements in pervasive healthcare

We designed and implemented an ontological solution which makes provisions for choosing adequate devices/sensors for remote monitoring of patients who are suffering from post-stroke health complications. We argue that non-functional requirements in pervasive healthcare systems can be elicited and managed through semantics stored in ontological models and reasoning created upon them. Our contribution is twofold: we enrich the elicitation process and specification of non-functional requirements within the requirements engineering discipline and we address the pervasiveness of healthcare software systems through the way of choosing devices embedded in them and users expectations in terms of having access to pervasive services personalized to their needs

A Process for COTS Software Product Evaluation

The growing use of commercial products in large systems makes evaluation and selection of appropriate products an increasingly essential activity. However, many organizations struggle in their attempts to select an appropriate product for use in systems. As part of a cooperative effort, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the National Research Council Canada (NRC) have defined a tailorable software product evaluation process that can support organizations in making carefully reasoned and sound product decisions. This paper describes that process.L'utilisation croissante des produits commerciaux dans les gros syst\ue8mes a rendu l'\ue9valuation et la s\ue9lection de produits appropri\ue9s une activit\ue9 de plus en plus essentielle. Toutefois, beaucoup d'organismes \ue9prouvent de la difficult\ue9 \ue0 s\ue9lectionner un produit qui convient \ue0 leurs syst\ue8mes. Le Software Engineering Institute (SEI) et le Conseil national de recherches (CNRC) ont collabor\ue9 \ue0 la d\ue9finition d'un processus d'\ue9valuation de logiciels adaptable qui peut aider les organismes \ue0 prendre des d\ue9cisions rationnelles et judicieuses sur le choix des produits. Le pr\ue9sent document d\ue9crit ce processus.NRC publication: Ye