Deriving Information Requirements from Responsibility Models

  • Authors:

  • Ian Sommerville;Russell Lock;Tim Storer;John Dobson

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland;School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland;School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland;School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • CAiSE '09 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper describes research in understanding the requirements for complex information systems that are constructed from one or more generic COTS systems. We argue that, in these cases, behavioural requirements are largely defined by the underlying system and that the goal of the requirements engineering process is to understand the information requirements of system stakeholders. We discuss this notion of information requirements and propose that an understanding of how a socio-technical system is structured in terms of responsibilities is an effective way of discovering this type of requirement. We introduce the idea of responsibility modelling and show, using an example drawn from the domain of emergency planning, how a responsibility model can be used to derive information requirements for a system that coordinates the multiple agencies dealing with an emergency.