Overview
A novel perspective on requirements engineering, founded on social concepts and strategic analysis of relationships among social actors. Much of the difficulty in creating information technology systems that truly meet people's needs lies in the problem of pinning down system requirements. This book offers a new approach to the requirements challenge, based on modeling and analyzing the relationships among stakeholders. Although the importance of the system-environment relationship has long been recognized in the requirements engineering field, most requirements modeling techniques express the relationship in mechanistic and behavioral terms. This book describes a modeling approach (called the i* framework) that conceives of software-based information systems as being situated in environments in which social actors relate to each other in terms of goals to be achieved, tasks to be performed, and resources to be furnished. Social perspectives on computing have provided much insight for many years. The i* framework aims to offer a modeling approach to the relationships embedded in computer systems that is part of an engineering method that offers systematic techniques and tools providing smooth linkages to the rest of the system development process, including system design and implementation. The book includes Eric Yu's original proposal for the i* framework as well as research that applies, adapts, extends, or evaluates the social modeling concepts and approach.
Full Product Details
Author: Eric Yu (University of Toronto) ,
Paolo Giorgini (Universita degli Studi di Trento) ,
Neil Maiden (City University) ,
John Mylopoulos (Professor in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Toronto, and Distinguished Pro, Universita degli Studi di Trento)
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
Imprint: MIT Press
Dimensions:
Width: 20.30cm
, Height: 3.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 1.497kg
ISBN: 9780262240550
ISBN 10: 0262240556
Pages: 752
Publication Date: 22 October 2010
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The social aspects of design are essential for supporting users' IT needs. With its excellent collection of papers, this book offers the reader a way to model social requirements and make them work in a real environment.
Author Information
Eric Yu is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Paolo Giorgini is Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Trento. Neil Maiden is Professor of Systems Engineering and Head of the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design at City University, London. 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).
