Increasing the Semantic Transparency of the KAOS Goal Model Concrete Syntax

Santos, Mafalda; Gralha, Catarina; Goulão, Miguel; Araújo, João

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-00847-5_30

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“…They were included because they represent evidence of the adoption of their method by the scientific community. Santos et al [39] proposed new symbols to KAOS [4] using an experimental design based on Caire et al [12]. Santos et al [39] performed the symbolisation experiment, stereotyping analysis, prototyping experiment and semantic transparency experiment.…”

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“…Santos et al [39] proposed new symbols to KAOS [4] using an experimental design based on Caire et al [12]. Santos et al [39] performed the symbolisation experiment, stereotyping analysis, prototyping experiment and semantic transparency experiment. Finally, Santos et al [39] concluded that the semantic transparency of the prototyping symbol set was significantly higher than the standard one.…”

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“…Santos et al [39] performed the symbolisation experiment, stereotyping analysis, prototyping experiment and semantic transparency experiment. Finally, Santos et al [39] concluded that the semantic transparency of the prototyping symbol set was significantly higher than the standard one. Henriques et al [40] followed the same steps of Santos et al [39] to recreate the symbols of the Low-Code Process Modelling Language.…”

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“…Finally, Santos et al [39] concluded that the semantic transparency of the prototyping symbol set was significantly higher than the standard one. Henriques et al [40] followed the same steps of Santos et al [39] to recreate the symbols of the Low-Code Process Modelling Language. Both works Santos et al [39] and Henriques et al [40] are similar to our work once they are based on Caire et al [12] design, but they were not used in the context of extensions of modelling languages.…”

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“…Henriques et al [40] followed the same steps of Santos et al [39] to recreate the symbols of the Low-Code Process Modelling Language. Both works Santos et al [39] and Henriques et al [40] are similar to our work once they are based on Caire et al [12] design, but they were not used in the context of extensions of modelling languages. The use of eye-tracking devices has been used in recent research involving analysis of requirements models.…”

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Modelling languages are frequently extended to include new constructs to be used together with the original syntax. New constructs may be proposed by adding textual information, such as UML stereotypes, or by creating new graphical representations. Thus, these new symbols need to be expressive and proposed in a careful way to increase the extension's adoption. A method to create symbols for the original constructs of a modelling language was proposed and has been used to create the symbols when a new modelling language is designed. We argue this method can be used to recommend new symbols for the extension's constructs. However, it is necessary to make some adjustments since the new symbols will be used with the existing constructs of the modelling language original syntax. In this paper, we analyse the usage of this adapted method to propose symbols to mitigate the occurrence of overloaded symbols in the existing iStar extensions. We analysed the existing iStar extensions in an SLR and identified the occurrence of symbol overload among the existing constructs. We identified a set of fifteen overloaded symbols in existing iStar extensions. We used these concepts with symbol overload in a multi-stage experiment that involved users in the visual notation design process. The study involved 262 participants, and its results revealed that most of the new graphical representations were better than those proposed by the extensions, with regard to semantic transparency. Thus, the new representations can be used to mitigate this kind of conflict in iStar extensions. Our results suggest that next extension efforts should consider user-generated notation design techniques in order to increase the semantic transparency.

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Evaluating the semantic transparency of Guaraná: A domain‐specific language for enterprise application integration

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Guaraná domain-specific language is aimed to design enterprise application integration models. Although the language has been broadly used in the industry and academy, the design of its graphical notation was based in the common sense and social opinion of its developers rather than theoretical principles and empirical evidence. Thus, Guaraná becomes as an option for studying, modifying, and improving its concrete syntax. In this article we conducted an experiment with 85 participants in order to evaluate the semantic transparency of the concrete syntax of Guaraná. The study concludes that the language is not found to be semantically immediate because most of the language constructs used in the graphical notation of Guaraná are not semantically immediate, that

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