Paper Info
Title
Evolving requirements in socio-technical systems: concepts and practice
Abstract
Changes in requirements are inevitable in the context of sociotechnical systems (STS) that involve human organizations with their rules, as well as individuals and software systems. In these complex systems need for changes may emerge once software components come into operation, due to undesirable behavior of the STS, or due to variations in organization rules, laws, resources and STS's components themselves. This leads to a problem of continuous analysis of evolving requirements in a traceable way. Our work is motivated by experience in a real project in the health-care domain, and in analysis practices based on participatory design methods (scenarios and personas) and on techniques for law-compliant requirements analysis. We revisit this experience and generalize it into a novel framework that provides concepts and practices to support an evolutionary and "participatory" process for requirements evolution in STS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-24606-7_34
ER
Keywords
Field
DocType
socio-technical system,human organization,software system,software component,participatory design method,evolving requirement,complex system,continuous analysis,law-compliant requirements analysis,analysis practice,requirements evolution,health-care domain
Complex system,Participatory design,Computer science,Persona,Requirements analysis,Software system,Citizen journalism,Component-based software engineering,Sociotechnical system,Database,Management science,Process management
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6998
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anna Perini1116583.51
Nauman A. Qureshi21639.03
Luca Sabatucci324929.40
Alberto Siena429727.63
Angelo Susi5105783.69