Kalle J Lyytinen

Design Requirements Engineering: a Ten-year Perspective: Design Requirements Workshop, Cleveland, Oh, Usa, June 3-6, 2007, Revised and Invited Papers Kalle J Lyytinen

Jacket Description/Back: Since its inception in 1968, software engineering has undergone numerous changes. In the early years, software development was organized using the waterfall model, where the focus of requirements engineering was on a frozen requirements document, which formed the basis of the subsequent design and implementation process. Since then, a lot has changed: software has to be developed faster, in larger and distributed teams, for pervasive as well as large-scale applications, with more flexibility, and with ongoing maintenance and quick release cycles. What do these ongoing developments and changes imply for the future of requirements engineering and software design? Now is the time to rethink the role of requirements and design for software intensive systems in transportation, life sciences, banking, e-government and other areas. Past assumptions need to be questioned, research and education need to be rethought. This book is based on the Design Requirements Workshop, held June 3-6, 2007, in Cleveland, OH, USA, where leading researchers met to assess the current state of affairs and define new directions. The papers included were carefully reviewed and selected to give an overview of the current state of the art as well as an outlook on probable future challenges and priorities. After a general introduction to the workshop and the related NSF-funded project, the contributions are organized in topical sections on fundamental concepts of design; evolution and the fluidity of design; quality and value-based requirements; requirements intertwining; and adapting requirements practices in different domains. Table of Contents: High Impact Design Requirements - Key Design Challenges for the Next Decade / Nicholas Berente, Sean Hansen, Kalle Lyytinen -- Current and Future Research Directions in Requirements Engineering / Betty H. C. Cheng, Joanne M. Atlee -- Requirements in the 21st Century: Current Practice and Emerging Trends / Sean Hansen, Nicholas Berente, Kalle Lyytinen -- Section 1. Fundamental Concepts of Design -- Introduction / Kalle Lyytinen -- The Evolution of Design Requirements in the Trajectory of Artificiality: A Research Agenda / Isabelle Reymen, Georges Romme -- A Proposal for a Formal Definition of the Design Concept / Paul Ralph, Yair Wand -- Incomplete by Design and Designing for Incompleteness / Raghu Garud, Sanjay Jain, Philipp Tuertscher -- Challenges in Requirements Engineering: A Research Agenda for Conceptual Modeling / Salvatore T. March, Gove N. Allen -- Section 2. Evolution and the Fluidity of Design -- Introduction / John Mylopoulos -- On the Inevitable Intertwining of Requirements and Architecture / Alistair Sutcliffe -- Requirements Evolution and What (Research) to Do about It / Neil A. Ernst, John Mylopoulos, Yiqiao Wang -- Designs Can Talk: A Case of Feedback for Design Evolution in Assistive Technology / William N. Robinson, Stephen Fickas -- Section 3. Quality and Value-Based Requirements -- Introduction / John Mylopoulos -- Value-Based Requirements Traceability: Lessons Learned / Alexander Egyed, Paul Grunbacher, Matthias Heindl, Stefan Biffl -- Impact of Requirements Quality on Project Success or Failure / Tetsuo Tamai, Mayumi Itakura Kamata -- Designing Value-Based Inter-organizational Controls Using Patterns / Vera Kartseva, Jaap Gordijn, Yao-Hua Tan -- Section 4. Requirements Intertwining -- Introduction / Pericles Loucopoulos -- Exploring the Fitness Relationship between System Functionality and Business Needs / Colette Rolland -- A Framework for Business Process Change Requirements Analysis / Varun Grover, Samuel Otim -- The Intertwining of Enterprise Strategy and Requirements / Pericles Loucopoulos, Joy Garfield -- Managing Legal Texts in Requirements Engineering / Paul N. Otto, Annie I. Anton -- Requirements' Role in Mobilizing and Enabling Design Conversation / Mark Bergman -- Design Requirements for Communication-Intensive Interactive Applications / Davide Bolchini, Franca Garzotto, Paolo Paolini -- Requirements Engineering and Aspects / Yijun Yu, Nan Niu, Bruno Gonzalez-Baixauli, John Mylopoulos, Steve Easterbrook, Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite -- Section 5. Adapting Requirements Practices in Different Domains -- Introduction / William Robinson -- On Technology Convergence and Platforms: Requirements Challenges from New Technologies and System Architectures / Matthias Jarke -- Understanding Requirements for Open Source Software / Walt Scacchi -- Author Index.

Contributor Bio:  Mylopoulos, John John Mylopoulos is Distinguished Professor in the Department of of Information Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento. He is the coeditor of "Metamodeling for Method Engineering" (MIT Press, 2009). Contributor Bio:  Robinson, Bill Bill Robinson is a writer/producer who founded the production company Blue Relief with Diane Keaton. He has been involved with such successful productions as "Unstrung Heroes, Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight, " and "Hanging Up." He lives in Los Angeles, California.