An ontological framework for user-driven system specification

Moor, A. de; Weigand, Hans

doi:10.1109/hicss.1999.773044

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“…Theoretical work related to the project has been published elsewhere [1][2][3][4][5][6]. We first give a summary of the developed approach in this section, before focusing on the norm-guided specification process in more detail.…”

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“…Earlier work focused on the representation and organisation of norms [1,2], and on the development of an ontological framework in which specification knowledge can be expressed [3]. A full description of the recent state of method and prototype tool, as well as the underlying theory of legitimate userdriven specification, is given elsewhere [4,5,6].…”

Section: Towards Acceptable Specification Changementioning

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“…Since space is lacking to completely describe the ontologies, we will only introduce those concepts necessary to represent the knowledge definitions made in the example. The RENISYS ontological framework was described in more detail in de Moor and Weigand [3]. The type hierarchy composed from the elements of the framework relevant to the current example is given in Fig.…”

Section: The Ontological Frameworkmentioning

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Making Workflow Change Acceptable

Moor

Jeusfeld

2001

Requirements Eng

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Virtual professional communities are supported by network information systems composed from standard Internet tools. To satisfy the interests of all community members, a user-driven approach to requirements engineering is proposed that produces not only meaningful but also acceptable specifications. This approach is especially suited for workflow systems that support partially structured, evolving work processes. To ensure the acceptability, social norms must guide the specification process. The RENISYS specification method is introduced, which facilitates this process using composition norms as formal representations of social norms. Conceptual graph theory is used to represent four categories of knowledge definitions: type definitions, state definitions, action norms and composition norms. It is shown how the composition norms guide the legitimate user-driven specification process by analysing a case on the development of an electronic law journal.

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Making Workflow Change Acceptable

Moor

Jeusfeld

2001

Requirements Eng

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“…Another advantage of using this is that it is not domain specific. A completely User driven ontology approach [10] however becomes more user centric & the desired software solution would be much to user satisfaction. SBVR model [11] for automation of business specific formalization using CL/configuration based approach aims at allowing business people maintaining business specific vocabulary & rules.…”

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“…Moor & Weigand [10] proposes a user driven ontology based framework in which user describes & defines the specification using a vocabulary. This approach capitalizes on user driven mapping of requirements using concept graphs.…”

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Analysis of Modeling Techniques used for Translating Natural Language Specification into Formal Software Requirements

Sandhu¹

2015

IJCA

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The prerequisite to any software development process is to first capture and understand the intended behaviour of the software solution based on the gathered requirements and understanding the constraints related to it. Hence requirement engineering becomes a very crucial step. Requirements are specified in Natural language by the user and it has to be translated to a formal representation for automating the requirement engineering process and also to uncover inconsistencies, ambiguities and perform conflict management in software requirements. This paper studies some existing models used for converting loosely specified natural language to a formal linguistic construct for software requirements. Observations on various existing approaches in this context are made.

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Supporting the evolution of workflow patterns for virtual communities

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Moor

Heuval

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Virtual communities that make use of network information systems (NIS) have a need for specification support that agrees with their communal character. System specification changes must be acceptable to all members for a community to thrive. We concentrate on the specification of workflowenabling communication tools rather than information tools that support a single user. In a previous paper, we have defined various levels of workflow specification, from speech acts to scenarios. Once patterns for these levels have been identified, they can be stored in a component library and be (re)-used effectively by communities to speed up their NIS development. To ensure the acceptability of changes in workflow patterns, we propose to apply an existing method for legitimate user-driven specification.

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An ontological framework for user-driven system specification

Cited by 3 publications

References 20 publications

Making Workflow Change Acceptable

Making Workflow Change Acceptable

Analysis of Modeling Techniques used for Translating Natural Language Specification into Formal Software Requirements

Supporting the evolution of workflow patterns for virtual communities

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