Implementation decision making for internetware driven by quality requirements

Wei, B; Jin, Z; Zowghi, D; Yin, B

Implementation decision making for internetware driven by quality requirements

Wei, B Jin, Z Zowghi, D

Yin, B

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Citation:: Science China Information Sciences, 2014, 57 (7), pp. 1 - 19
Issue Date:: 2014-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Wei, B	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Jin, Z	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Zowghi, D https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6051-0155	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Yin, B	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Science China Information Sciences, 2014, 57 (7), pp. 1 - 19	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1674-733X	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/34198
dc.description.abstract	Internetware is an emerging software paradigm in the open, dynamic and ever-changing Internet environment. A successful internetware must demonstrate acceptable degree of quality when carrying out its functionality. Hence, when internetware is being dynamically constructed, making implementation decisions to satisfice the quality requirements becomes a critical issue. In the traditional software engineering, quality requirements are usually refined stepwise by sub-requirements utilizing goal modeling perspective, until some potential functional design alternatives are identified. The goal-oriented paradigms have adopted graphical goal models to reason about quality requirements and proposed qualitative or quantitative reasoning schemas. However, these techniques may become unviable due to the ever-changing operating environment and demands for run-time decision making. In this paper, we propose an approach for implementation decision making driven by quality requirements for internetware. It focuses on the symbolic formula representation of requirements goal models with the tree structure, which is of well-defined syntax and clear traceability. Furthermore, we explore some reasoning rules which effectively automate each reasoning action on the formulae. This supports multiple-factor decision making. A case study is also provided to illustrate our proposed approach. We have developed a supporting tool based on our theoretical approach that we also present in this paper. © 2014 Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Science China Information Sciences	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/s11432-014-5117-5	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Software Engineering	en_US
dc.title	Implementation decision making for internetware driven by quality requirements	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	0806 Information Systems	en_US
utslib.for	0804 Data Format	en_US
utslib.for	0899 Other Information and Computing Sciences	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/DVC (Research)/Graduate Research School
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - HCTD - Human Centred Technology Design
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - STEM Education Futures
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pubs.volume	57	en_US

Abstract:

Internetware is an emerging software paradigm in the open, dynamic and ever-changing Internet environment. A successful internetware must demonstrate acceptable degree of quality when carrying out its functionality. Hence, when internetware is being dynamically constructed, making implementation decisions to satisfice the quality requirements becomes a critical issue. In the traditional software engineering, quality requirements are usually refined stepwise by sub-requirements utilizing goal modeling perspective, until some potential functional design alternatives are identified. The goal-oriented paradigms have adopted graphical goal models to reason about quality requirements and proposed qualitative or quantitative reasoning schemas. However, these techniques may become unviable due to the ever-changing operating environment and demands for run-time decision making. In this paper, we propose an approach for implementation decision making driven by quality requirements for internetware. It focuses on the symbolic formula representation of requirements goal models with the tree structure, which is of well-defined syntax and clear traceability. Furthermore, we explore some reasoning rules which effectively automate each reasoning action on the formulae. This supports multiple-factor decision making. A case study is also provided to illustrate our proposed approach. We have developed a supporting tool based on our theoretical approach that we also present in this paper. © 2014 Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

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