A logic of action for supporting goal-oriented elaborations of requirements
IWSSD '89 Proceedings of the 5th international workshop on Software specification and design
Telos: representing knowledge about information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Goal-directed requirements acquisition
6IWSSD Selected Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
First order action logic: an approach for modeling the communication process between agents
CM'96 Proceedings of the First international conference on Communication Modeling: The language/action perspective
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
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Most formal approaches to goals proposed within information systems engineering, view goals from the requirements engineering perspective, i.e. for producing future software. Typically, these approaches begin with extracting goals from informal reality and end with representing them in some formal language, leaving the questions arising afterwards unanswered: How can we check whether goals are achieved or not in real business processes? If the goals are not satisfied, why and what to do? This paper presents a formal approach to representing and reasoning with goals using a first order many sorted temporal logic, where goals are expressed in terms of actions and static and temporal constraints; the above questions are answered by model theoretic formal reasoning with goals and business processes.