ER '02 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling
Towards Modeling and Reasoning Support for Early-Phase Requirements Engineering
RE '97 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
Designing information systems in social context: a goal and scenario modelling approach
Information Systems - Special issue: The 14th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*02)
Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices
IT Professional
Engineering the Software for Understanding Climate Change
IEEE Design & Test
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In the past, IT system design is mainly driven by two essential factors: technical merits and costs. Environmental consideration only emerges in most recent discussions under the label of green IT. As the evaluation of environmental and climate impact involves too many parameters, some of which are indirect and hidden, it is very hard to make rationale analysis without the support of a holistic strategic analysis framework. In this paper, we propose to extend the goal-oriented requirements modeling language, GRL, to model the rationality behind IT system design, in particular, how the environment related considerations come into play in such design decision making. It can be adopted as a strategic analysis framework to facilitate concrete decision makings under different environmental settings. Example real world scenarios are used to illustrate how the proposed approach can help improve the state of the practice.