Date: Thu, 14 Apr 94 12:05:14 BST X-Sender: acwf@gummo.doc.ic.ac.uk To: acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk From: acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk (Anthony Finkelstein) Subject: REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER (25) ****************REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER******************** No. 25. Contents 1. Message from the Moderator! (Anthony Finkelstein) 2. Book on Creativity and Creative Design (John Gero) 3. Expanded List of Scenario Reference (Andrew Blyth) 4. CFP Working Conference on Information Systems Concepts (Eckhard Falkenburg) 5. 3rd Int. Summer School on Method Engineering and Metamodeling (Narendra Ravi) If you have questions about particular items appearing in the newsletter - send them to the originators. If you wish to contribute send your material to: re-list@doc.ic.ac.uk (will be moderated). Subscription or Removal requests should be sent to: re-request@doc.ic.ac.uk Back issues can be obtained via anonymous ftp from ftp-host: dse.doc.ic.ac.uk (IP number: 146.169.2.20). Directory: requirements. 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Requirements Engineering Newsletter is published solely as an educational service. Copyright (c) 1994, Anthony Finkelstein; All Rights Reserved. ********************************************************************** From: acwf@doc.ic.ac.uk (Anthony Finkelstein) Subject: Message from the Moderator! Next week I will be at the International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE 94) at Colorado Springs, USA. This is another landmark event for the growing RE community. The programme looks very exciting, Al Davis and Pei Hsia have done a really excellent job. I will try and write a "trip report" for newsletter readers on my return. The next big event on the horizon is RE '95 at the end of March 1995 in York, UK (the CFP was in the last issue but I will be posting it out again shortly) the deadline for papers is 1st September 1994. I look forward to meeting many of you at ICRE and I hope you will take this opportunity to give me feedback on the newsletter. Anthony PS IEEE Software, March 1994, 11 : 2 includes.... 1) Giving voice to requirements engineering; 2) Challenging universal truths of requirements; 3) Inquiry-based requirements analysis; 4) Formal approach to scenario analysis; 5) Understanding quality in conceptual modelling. ********************************************************************** From: john@archsci.arch.su.EDU.AU Subject: Book on Creativity and Creative Design MODELING CREATIVITY AND CREATIVE DESIGN edited by John S. Gero and Mary Lou Maher University of Sydney Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993 ISBN: 0-8058-1153-2 Book orders: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 365 Broadway, Hillsdale, NJ 07642 USA Ph: (201) 666 4110 Fax: (201) 666 2394 or Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 27 Palmeira Mansions Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA, UK Over the last decade research into design processes utilizing ideas and models drawn from artificial intelligence has resulted in a better understanding of design--particularly routine design--as a process. Indeed, most of the current research activity directly or indirectly deals only with routine design. Not surprisingly, many practising designers state that the level of understanding represented by these models is only of mild interest because they fail to embody any ideas about creativity. This volume provides a set of chapters in the areas of modeling creativity and knowledge-based creative design that examines the potential role and form of computer-aided design that support creativity. It aims to define the state-of-the-art of computational creativity in design as well as to identify research directions. Published at a time when the field of computational creativity in design is still immature, it will influence the directions of growth and assist the field in reaching maturity. Contents: Introduction: J.S.Gero, M. L. Maher Part I: Creativity T. Heath, Social aspects of creativity and their impact on creativity modeling; W. J. Mitchell, A computational view of design creativity; S. McLaughlin, Emergent value in creative products-- some implications for creative processes; T. Takala, A neuro- psychologically-based approach to creativity Part II: Knowledge-Based Models of Creative Design M. Rosenman, J. S. Gero, Creativity in design using a design prototype approach; B. Logan, T. Smithers, Creativity and design as exploration; R. D. Coyne, S. Newton, F. Sudweeks, A connectionist view of creative design reasoning; R. F. Woodbury, A genetic approach to creative design Part III: Knowledge-Based Creative Design G. Fischer, Creativity enhancing design environments; E. Edmonds, Knowledge-based systems for creativity; J. Cagan, A. M. Agogino, Inducing optimally directed non-routine designs; R. F. Coyne, E. Subrahmanian, Computer supported creative design--A pragmatic approach; M. L. Maher, F. Zhao, Dynamic associations for creative design. ********************************************************************** From: A.J.C.Blyth@ncl.ac.uk (Andrew Blyth) Subject: Expanded List of Scenario References This list includes some further references on scenarios in requirements engineering. "A Scenario-Based Methodology for Conducting Requirements Elicitation", Holbrook III, Hilliard, ACM SIGSOFT, vol 18, no 1, Jan 1990. "Scenario-Based Prototyping for Requirements Identification", Hooper, James W. and Hsai, Pei, ACM SIGSOFT, vol 7, no 5, 1982 "Scenario Driven Requirements Analysis Method", Wang, Wei and Hufnagel, Steve and Hsia, Pei and Yang, Seung Min, 2nd International conference on systems integration, pp 127-136, 1992 "Using Scenarios in Deficiency-driven Requirements Engineering", John Anderson and Brian Durney, IEEE Intl. Symposium On Requirements Engineering RE93, San Diego, CA, 4-6 January 1993, p 134-41. "Goal Decomposition and Scenario Analysis in Business Process Reengineering", Annie I. Anton, W. Michael McCracken, and Colin Potts, Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering}, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 6-10 June 1994. "Utilizing Scenarios in the Software Development Process", Benner, Kevin, Martin S. Feather, W. Lewis Johnson & Lorna Zorman., IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Information Systems Development Process, 9 December 1992. "Getting Around the Task-Artifact Cycle: How to Make Claims and Design By Scenario", J.M. Carroll and M. Rosson, ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 10(2), April 1992, pp. 181-212. "On the Use of Scenarios in Requirements Acquisition", Anne Dardenne, University of Oregon, Tech Report, CIS-TR-93-17. "Developing Initial OOA Models", Lubars, M., C. Potts and C. Richter., Proc. 15th Int. Conf. Software Eng., ACM/IEEE Comp. Soc. Press, 1993. "Inquiry-Based Requirements Analysis", Colin Potts, Kenji Takahashi & Annie I. Anton.,IEEE Software, March 1994. "Object Behavior Analysis", Kenneth S. Rubin and Adele Goldberg., Communications of the ACM, 35(9), September 1992, p 48-62. "The Use of Descriptions in Analysis and Design of Information Systems", J. Stage, Collaborative Work, Social Communications and Information Systems, Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., R.K. Stamper, P. Kerola, R. Lee and K. Lyytinen (Editors), pp. 237-260, 1991. "Marcel: A Requirements Elicitation Tool Utilizing Scenarios", S.M. Thebaut, M.F. Interrante, T.F. Burch, R.J. Nroman, R. Van Ghent., Fourth Intl. Workshop on Computer-Aided Software Engineering}, Irvine, CA, 5-8 December 1990, p 279-89. "Specification via Scenarios and Views", W. Lewis Johnson, Proceedings of the 3rd Int. Software Process Workshop, November 1986, pp. 61-63 "Problem acquisition in software analysis: A preliminary study", S. Fickas, S. Collins, and S. Olivier, Technical report CIS-TR-87-04, University of Oregon, 1987. "Automating requirements engineering using artificial intelligence planning techniques", John S. Anderson, Technical report CIS-TR-93-28, University of Oregon, 1993. "A proposed perspective shift: Viewing specification design as a planning problem", John S. Anderson and Stephen Fickas, In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design (Pittsburgh), IEEE Computer Society Press 1989. "Scenario-Based Prototyping for Requirements Identification", Hooper J.W. and Hsia P., ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 7, No. 5., Dec. 1982, pp. 88-92. "Computer-Aided Requirements Engineering: An Operational Modeling Approach", Thebaut, S.M. and Interrante, M., Second International Conference on Computer-Aided Design and Computer Graphics, Hangzhou, China, September 1991. "Marcel: A Requirements Elicitation Tool Utilizing Scenarios", Thebaut, S.M., Interrante, M. and Burch, T., Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE90), Irvine, California, December 1990. "Scenario Selection and Implementation Techniques for Scenario-Based Rapid Prototyping", Kaufman. L., SERC-TR-19-F, February 1988. "Initial Experience with the SBRE Prototype Environment", Interrante, M., Kaufman, L., SERC-TM-88-1, June 1988. "Box Structured Design of the Scenario-Based Requirements Engineering Process", Interrante, M., SERC-TM-88-2, October 1988. "System Modeling for Scenario-Based Requirements Engineering", Kaufman, L., Thebaut, S.M. and Interrante, M., SERC-TR-33-F, September 1989. "User's Manual for Marcel: A Requirements ElicitationTool Utilizing Scenarios", Interrante, M., `SERC-TR-35-F, November 1989 (Marcel 1.0), and April 1991 (Marcel 2.0). "Model Abstractions for Requirements Engineering", Burch, F., Masters Thesis, University of Florida, August 1991. "Paradigm Transformations in Domain Modeling for Requirements Engineering", Tate, W., Masters Thesis, University of Florida, April 1991. "Quality Improvements of the Requirements Elicitation Process via Scenario and Abstraction Techniques", Interrante, M., Engineers Thesis, University of Florida, August 1992. "Formal Approach to Scenario Analysis", Pei Hsia, Jayarajan Samuel, Jerry Gao, David Kung, Yasufumi Toyoshima and Cris Chen, IEE Software, Vol 11, No. 2, 1994. ********************************************************************** From: Eckhard Falkenburg Subject: CfP ISCO3 C A L L F O R P A P E R S IFIP WG 8.1 International Working Conference on I N F O R M A T I O N S Y S T E M C O N C E P T S TOWARDS A CONSOLIDATION OF VIEWS (ISCO3) Marburg/Germany, 28-30 March 1995 Sponsor: International Federation for Information Processing Co-sponsor: Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e.V. BACKGROUND AND THEME: Most mature scientific disciplines have a sound and widely accepted foundation of basic concepts. This is not yet the case for our discipline of information systems. Numerous and widely diverting views abound in our field. It is acknowledged that there are various good reasons for applying different views, modelling approaches or paradigms for different sorts of information systems. But most of these differences are unmotivated or not well justified; they are the historical products of different research cultures and schools of thought. More regrettable are the differences caused by a school ignoring the work of others, or resulting from deliberate "product differentiation" by companies or universities in the information system field. For the future of our field, it is desirable to encourage a consolidation and harmonisation of views, wherever that is feasible. The current work of the IFIP WG 8.1 Task Group FRISCO ("FRamework of Information System COncepts") is a major step in this desirable direction. After the two successful ISCO conferences in Namur and Alexandria, this third ISCO conference is being organised, with consolidation and harmonisation as its aims. SUGGESTED TOPICS: * Investigations of the reasons for the divergence of views and paradigms in the information systems field, and possible remedies. * Studies to clarify and axiomatise key concepts for information systems. * Studies regarding integration or unification of conceptual frameworks for information systems. * Investigations of the conceptual relationships between the information systems field and the various neighbouring disciplines, such as software engineering, organisation theories, system theories, cognition, or semiotics. * Improvements to existing frameworks of information system concepts. * Approaches for integrating, unifying or transforming different modelling techniques or design methods for information systems. * Approaches to inter-operable information systems and re-usability of information system designs in different environments. * Approaches for adapting general modelling techniques or methods for specific application domains or sorts of information systems. * Investigations of the suitability of conceptual frameworks for addressing problems encountered in various sorts of information systems, such as database systems, active database systems, deductive database systems, multi-media database systems, knowledge-based systems, decision support systems, expert systems, document retrieval systems, information disclosure systems, real-time information systems, office information systems, management information systems, communication systems, etc. WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? Researchers, teachers and practitioners in the information systems field, regardless of their special connection to some specific scientific culture or school, sort of information systems, or sort of application domains. CONFERENCE SET-UP: It is planned to incorporate in the conference a tutorial about the results of the work of the FRISCO Task Group, followed by regular, original paper sessions, a poster session, and a panel session. For each regular paper, a discussant will reflect and comment on it, to provoke an in-depth discussion and debate. INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: Original papers, fitting into the theme, are invited. They may cover one or several of the suggested topics, but are not limited to them. To submit a paper, send five (5) copies of your manuscript in English to the Program Committee Chairman by 28 October 1994: Prof. Dr. E. D. Falkenberg Department of Informatics, University of Nijmegen Toernooiveld, NL - 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands Email: ef@cs.kun.nl , Fax: +31-80-553450 Submitted papers should not exceed 8000 words, and should have a front page where the title, the authors, their postal addresses, their email addresses, their fax numbers and their phone numbers are stated. The full paper, including title and abstract, but excluding the authors, should begin on the second page. Submitted papers will be reviewed and judged with respect to originality, significance, depth of analysis or insights, clarity and readability, and relevance to the conference theme. All submitted papers will be blind refereed. Pre-prints will be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings will be published after the conference by the official IFIP publisher. IMPORTANT DATES: Papers due: 28 October 1994 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 23 December 1994 Final papers for pre-prints due: 10 February 1995 GENERAL CONFERENCE CHAIR: Antoni Olive, University of Catalunya, Spain PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: Eckhard Falkenberg, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands PROGRAM COMMITTEE: F. van Assche, Belgium D. Avison, U.K. P. Creasy, Australia W. Hesse, Germany R. Hotaka, Japan M. Jarke, Germany L. Kalinichenko, Russia P. Kerola, Finland P. Loucoupulos, U.K. K. Lyytinen, Finland B. Nilsson, Sweden J. Odell, U.S.A. N. Prakash, India C. Rolland, France H. Sol, Netherlands R. Stamper, Netherlands R. Traunmueller, Austria T. Tse, Hong Kong A. Verrijn-Stuart, Netherlands D. Vogel, U.S.A. K. Voss, Germany Y. Wand, Canada S. Wrycza, Poland ORGANISING COMMITTEE CHAIR: Wolfgang Hesse, University of Marburg, Germany ********************************************************************** Subject: 3rd Int. Summer School on Method Engineering and Metamodeling From: Narendra Ravi CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ANNOUNCEMENT The Third International Summer School on Method Engineering and MetaModelling June 16 (Thursday) -- June 19 (Sunday), 1994 Kananaskis Guest Ranch, Canadian Rockies 70 Kilometers West of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Scope ----- Research and development of information systems and information system development tools have been challenged by the need for metamodelling and method engineering to foster customizable CASE tool and integrated system developments. This workshop provides a common forum for fruitful exchanges between developments in practice, users of metamodels and meta-CASE tools, and researchers on requirements, problems and solutions in the field. This continues the direction established by the two very successful workshops held in Jyvaskyla, Finland in 1992 and in Enschede, Netherlands in 1993. This summerschool is sponsored by the IFIP WG 8.1/8.2 Taskgroup on Method Engineering. Invitation ---------- The organizers of MEMM'93 invite you to an interesting and educational workshop in the Rocky Mountains of Canada, with paper presentations, working sessions and panel discussions truly representative of the main interests of an international MEMM community. Participation is limited. Attendance will be based on invitation. In order to apply for participation, please send a one-page position paper containing a short description of current research, development or practice of metamodelling and method engineering by April 22, 1994 to: Olivia Sheng Management Information Systems Department College of Business and Public Administration McClelland Hall University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 USA +1-602-621-2748 (tel); +1-602-621-2433 (fax); sheng@bpa.arizona.edu Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chair Paul Sorenson, University of Alberta, Canada sorenson@cs.ualberta.ca Academic Program Chair Olivia Sheng, University of Arizona, USA sheng@bpa.arizona.edu Industrial Program Chair Sri Sridharan, Intel Corporation, USA (tentative) ccm!sri_sridharan@intelhf.intel.com Chair of External Finances Gezinus Hidding, Andersen Consulting, Chicago and Sponsorship ghidding@andersen.com European Chair S. Brinkkemper, University of Twente, Netherlands sjbr@cs.utwente.nl Australian/Far East Chair Rowan Stevens, RMIT, Melborne, Australia rds@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au Tentative Program ----------------- Thursday, June 16: Arrival, registration. opening session invited presentation Friday, June 17: 2 invited presentations + working group sessions Saturday, June 18: 2 invited presentations/panels + working group session + social event Sunday, June 19: 1 invited presentation + working group sessions + departure The workshop will last for the equivalent of three days. It will feature six invited presentation or panel sessions of 1 hour and 45 minutes each. At least 2 invited presentation/panel sessions and their follow-up working group sessions will address user and developer issues in method engineerng and metamodelling given by industry participants from an industry perspective. Other tentative presentation and working topics include method engineering and metamodelling issues in enterprise or cross-organizational modelling, process modelling and model integration. The invited presentors/panelists will be encouraged to challenge the workshop participants with discussion questions and/or problems to be solved in follow-up working sessions. The typical morning and afternoon sessions will follow a format approximately as follows: ... 1st 1 hr - invited presentation(s) ... next 30 minutes - wrap-up of invited presentation or panel discussion ... 15 minutes - break ... next 1 hr - working group sessions based on presentation topic ... final 15 minutes - summaries of working group sessions Morning sessions will run from 9:00am till noon; afternoon sessions will run from 1:30pm till 4:30pm, except for Saturday where it will run from 1:00pm till 3:30pm to allow more time for a special "Western" social event in the evening. We plan to finish by noon on Sunday to allow participants to catch flights home on Sunday evening if they desire. Details of the invited presentations will be published by April 7. 1994. Proceedings ----------- The possibility of a proceedings from the summerschool/workshop is being explored. Extended versions of selected position papers and outcomes from the various working group sessions would be published. The proceedings from the second summerschool will be available as a special issue of the journal Information and Software Technology by the end of this year. A preliminary version will be available as a technical report from the University of Twente in March, 1994. Sponsors -------- Andersen Consulting University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada University of Arizona, Tucson, USA Others to be announced Registration ------------ Tentatively set at: Double occupancy - $450 CANADIAN (or approx. $360 US funds) Single occupancy - $525 CANADIAN (or approx. $440 US funds) This includes all meals and conference material for three days. Double occupancy means two people sharing accommodations, each person with their own bed but in a single room. Single occupancy means one person per room. Some rooms are in two bedroom chalets containing four double beds with sitting room and wet bar. A GST of 7.5% may have to be added to the registration amounts. Registration does not include transportation to or from the Guest Ranch. Typically, this will cost approximately $35 CAN each way to and from the Calgary International Airport. Electronic registration will be encouraged. E-forms will be sent out to those who are selected to participate on or before April 20. An early registration date of June 1 will be set. Invited participants who have not made arrangements to pay by that time, may be "bumped" in favor of others participants on a waiting list. Addresses --------- For more information, please contact Organization details .... Paul Sorenson Department of Computing Science University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H1 CANADA +1-403-492-4589 (tel); +1-403-492-1071 (fax); sorenson@cs.ualberta.ca Program Committee details ... Olivia Sheng Management Information Systems Department College of Business and Public Administration McClelland Hall University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 USA +1-602-621-2748 (tel); +1-602-621-2433 (fax); sheng@bpa.arizona.edu **********************************************************************