The Z notation: a reference manual
The Z notation: a reference manual
Goal-directed requirements acquisition
6IWSSD Selected Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
Characterizing and assessing a large-scale software maintenance organization
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Software engineering
Managing Conflicts in Goal-Driven Requirements Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A formal framework for business process modelling and design
Information Systems
Processes Driving the Networked Economy
IEEE Concurrency
Towards requirements-driven information systems engineering: the Tropos project
Information Systems - The 13th international conference on advanced information systems engineering (CAiSE*01)
Agent-Oriented Modelling: Software versus the World
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
Modelling strategic relationships for process reengineering
Modelling strategic relationships for process reengineering
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)
Modelling business processes with workflow systems: an evaluation of alternative approaches
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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This paper proposes an agent-oriented metamodel that provides rigorous concepts for conducting enterprise modelling. The aim is to allow analysts to produce an enterprise model that precisely captures the knowledge of an organization and of its business processes so that an agent-oriented requirements specification of the system-to-be and its operational corporate environment can be derived from it. To this end, the model identifies constructs that permit capturing the intrinsic characteristics of an agent system such as autonomy, intentionality, sociality, identity and boundary, or rational self-interest; an agent being an organizational actor and/or a software component. Such an approach of the concept of agent allows the analyst to have a holistic perspective integrating human and organizational aspects to gain better understanding of business system inner and outer modelling issues. The metamodel has roots in both management theory and requirements engineering. It helps to bridge the gap between enterprise and requirements models proposing an integrated framework, comprehensive and expressive to both managers and software (requirements) engineers.