%0 Journal Article %1 castro02is %A Castro, Jaelson %A Kolp, Manuel %A Mylopoulos, John %D 2002 %J Information Systems %K Agent requirements tropos %N 6 %P 365--389 %T Towards requirements-driven information systems engineering: the Tropos project %U http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V0G-45JGX4M-1/2/9f325d9c66ee6045a2989c1c8e195601 %V 27 %X Information systems of the future will have to perform well within ever-changing organizational environments. Unfortunately, existing software development methodologies (object-oriented, structured or otherwise) have traditionally been inspired by programming concepts, not organizational ones, leading to a semantic gap between the software system and its operational environment. To reduce this gap, we propose a software development methodology named Tropos which is founded on concepts used to model early requirements. Our proposal adopts the i* organizational modeling framework, which offers the notions of actor, goal and (actor) dependency, and uses these as a foundation to model early and late requirements, architectural and detailed design. The paper outlines Tropos phases through an e-business example, and sketches a formal language which underlies the methodology and is intended to support formal analysis. The methodology seems to complement well proposals for agent-oriented programming platforms.

@article{castro02is, abstract = {Information systems of the future will have to perform well within ever-changing organizational environments. Unfortunately, existing software development methodologies (object-oriented, structured or otherwise) have traditionally been inspired by programming concepts, not organizational ones, leading to a semantic gap between the software system and its operational environment. To reduce this gap, we propose a software development methodology named Tropos which is founded on concepts used to model early requirements. Our proposal adopts the i* organizational modeling framework, which offers the notions of actor, goal and (actor) dependency, and uses these as a foundation to model early and late requirements, architectural and detailed design. The paper outlines Tropos phases through an e-business example, and sketches a formal language which underlies the methodology and is intended to support formal analysis. The methodology seems to complement well proposals for agent-oriented programming platforms.}, added-at = {2008-01-24T22:27:20.000+0100}, author = {Castro, Jaelson and Kolp, Manuel and Mylopoulos, John}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2340fda91aeb1b92f670a62bbc9663064/neilernst}, interhash = {bdfebed79c34d7dd062e0c249824cd9e}, intrahash = {340fda91aeb1b92f670a62bbc9663064}, journal = {Information Systems}, keywords = {Agent requirements tropos}, month = {#sep#}, number = 6, pages = {365--389}, timestamp = {2008-01-24T22:27:23.000+0100}, title = {Towards requirements-driven information systems engineering: the Tropos project}, url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6V0G-45JGX4M-1/2/9f325d9c66ee6045a2989c1c8e195601}, volume = 27, year = 2002 }