TY - GEN

T1 - Requirements engineering for social applications

AU - Chopra, Amit K.

AU - Giorgini, Paolo

PY - 2011

Y1 - 2011

N2 - We characterize social applications as those involving interactionamong multiple autonomous agents. We are interested in the essential conceptsand approaches for modeling such applications. We make the case that i* hassome limitations with respect to the modeling of social applications. The problem is in the intentional nature of i*. The deeper roots though lie in the centralizedmachine-oriented approach of current requirements engineering approaches. Werecommend an interaction-oriented approach to requirements modeling, modeling in terms of social commitments rather than dependencies, and in general, accommodating a distributed perspective right from the earliest phases of softwareengineering. For clarity, we also distinguish social commitments from varioussimilar-sounding notions in the literature.

AB - We characterize social applications as those involving interactionamong multiple autonomous agents. We are interested in the essential conceptsand approaches for modeling such applications. We make the case that i* hassome limitations with respect to the modeling of social applications. The problem is in the intentional nature of i*. The deeper roots though lie in the centralizedmachine-oriented approach of current requirements engineering approaches. Werecommend an interaction-oriented approach to requirements modeling, modeling in terms of social commitments rather than dependencies, and in general, accommodating a distributed perspective right from the earliest phases of softwareengineering. For clarity, we also distinguish social commitments from varioussimilar-sounding notions in the literature.

M3 - Conference contribution/Paper

VL - 766

T3 - CEUR Workshop Proceedings

SP - 138

EP - 143

BT - Proceedings of the 5th International i* Workshop

A2 - Castro, Jaelson

A2 - Franch, Xavier

A2 - Myopoulos, John

A2 - Yu, Eric

PB - CEUR-WS.org

ER -