Designing socio-technical systems: from stakeholder goals to social networks Export

@article{citeulike:3902578, abstract = {Abstract\ \ Software systems are becoming an integral part of everyday life influencing organizational and social activities. This aggravates the need for a socio-technical perspective for requirements engineering, which allows for modelling and analyzing the composition and interaction of hardware and software components with human and organizational actors. In this setting, alternative requirements models have to be evaluated and selected finding a right trade-off between the technical and social dimensions. To address this problem, we propose a tool-supported process of requirements analysis for socio-technical systems, which adopts planning techniques for exploring the space of requirements alternatives and a number of social criteria for their evaluation. We illustrate the proposed approach with the help of a case study, conducted within the context of an EU project.}, author = {Bryl, Volha and Giorgini, Paolo and Mylopoulos, John}, citeulike-article-id = {3902578}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00766-008-0073-5}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/n5608520335385p7}, doi = {10.1007/s00766-008-0073-5}, journal = {Requirements Engineering}, keywords = {goal-articulation, requirements, socio-technical, software-engineering}, posted-at = {2009-02-14 14:05:32}, priority = {2}, title = {Designing socio-technical systems: from stakeholder goals to social networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00766-008-0073-5} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3902578 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3902578 N2 - Abstract  Software systems are becoming an integral part of everyday life influencing organizational and social activities. This aggravates the need for a socio-technical perspective for requirements engineering, which allows for modelling and analyzing the composition and interaction of hardware and software components with human and organizational actors. In this setting, alternative requirements models have to be evaluated and selected finding a right trade-off between the technical and social dimensions. To address this problem, we propose a tool-supported process of requirements analysis for socio-technical systems, which adopts planning techniques for exploring the space of requirements alternatives and a number of social criteria for their evaluation. We illustrate the proposed approach with the help of a case study, conducted within the context of an EU project. JF - Requirements Engineering TI - Designing socio-technical systems: from stakeholder goals to social networks KW - goal-articulation KW - requirements KW - socio-technical KW - software-engineering AU - Bryl, Volha AU - Giorgini, Paolo AU - Mylopoulos, John UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00766-008-0073-5 ER -