Towards Advanced Goal Model Analysis with jUCMNav

Amyot, Daniel; Shamsaei, Azalia; Kealey, Jason; Tremblay, Etienne; Miga, Andrew; Mussbacher, Gunter; Alhaj, Mohammad; Tawhid, Rasha; Braun, Edna; Cartwright, Nick

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-33999-8_25

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“…Three evaluation algorithms applicable to GRL -a quantitative, a qualitative, and a hybrid approach -are described in more detail in [2]. [27]. In addition, the jUCMNav tool supports the visualization of trends given a set of strategies [3].…”

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TimedGRL: Specifying Goal Models Over Time

Aprajita¹,

Mussbacher²

2016

2016 IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW)

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This thesis introduces TimedGRL, an extension of the current GRL (Goal-oriented Requirement Language) standard, which enables the modeling and analysis of a comprehensive set of changes to a goal model over time. Goal-oriented analysis, in general, deals with finding a solution to the modeled problem, which tries to accomplish desired system qualities while taking care of stakeholder needs simultaneously. It can be used to influence design decisions as it allows performing trade-off analysis among alternative solutions by determining which proposed solution strikes a more appropriate balance of stakeholder objectives and desired qualities of a system. Some common goal-oriented languages such as i*, GRL, the NFR Framework, and KAOS offer standard language definitions to support varying forms of such analysis. However, in most of these cases, the analysis is focused on only one snapshot in time. To capture evolving systems, several goal models need to be created that represent different stages of that system. The current language definitions do not allow these models to be connected and make it difficult to analyze them simultaneously. Moreover, it requires extra effort to maintain and consistently update these models that actually represent the same system and have many repeated elements.TimedGRL proposes capturing the goal model and the changes to the goal model in a single model to facilitate system evolution. The metamodel for TimedGRL is presented, and an analysis algorithm for TimedGRL models is defined and implemented in jUCMNav, the most comprehensive GRL modeling tool to date. A hypothetical but realistic example from the sustainability domain is used to illustrate the introduced concepts. Moreover, a detailed case study has been performed to show TimedGRL's functionality and usefulness.iii

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Section: Goal Model Evaluationmentioning

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“…[27]. In addition, the jUCMNav tool supports the visualization of trends given a set of strategies [3].…”

Section: Goal Model Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

TimedGRL: Specifying Goal Models Over Time

Aprajita¹,

Mussbacher²

2016

2016 IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW)

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“…The framework exploits goal, process, and indicator modeling and analysis in establishing links between an organization's business objectives and IS. It relies on the User Requirements Notation (URN) [4,12] and jUCMNav [5] (a free Eclipsebased tool for analyzing and managing URN models), to model business scenarios, the stakeholders involved, their intentions in terms of organizational objectives, tasks they perform, and the IS that support these objectives. Processes and indicators measuring their performance (often obtained through Business Intelligence tools -BI) are captured, modeled and evaluated to anticipate and support architectural changes.…”

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A Framework for a Business Intelligence-Enabled Adaptive Enterprise Architecture

Akhigbe

Amyot

Richards

2014

Conceptual Modeling

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Abstract. The environments in which businesses currently operate are dynamic and constantly changing, with influence from external and internal factors. When businesses evolve, leading to changes in business objectives, it is hard to determine and visualize what direct Information System responses are needed to respond to these changes. This paper introduces an enterprise architecture framework which allows for anticipating and supporting proactively, adaptation in enterprise architectures as and when the business evolves. This adaptive framework exploits and models relationships between business objectives of important stakeholders, decisions related to these objectives, and Information Systems that support these decisions. This framework exploits goal modeling in a Business Intelligence context. The tool-supported framework was assessed against different levels and types of changes in a real enterprise architecture of a Canadian government department, with encouraging results.

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“…Nómos3 [16] and Legal-URN [9] for analyzing regulatory compliance between laws, regulations and business rules and processes.) Furthermore, there are open-source tools such as jUCMNav [3] which support the representation and analysis of goal-oriented models. These approaches have shown that having a structured framework with tool-support can ensure that the organization's goals are aligned and in compliance with the current regulations and laws.…”

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“…GRL is part of the User Requirements Notation (URN) [17] which is currently the only modeling language part of the ITU-T standard. Furthermore, URN has an open-source, Eclipse-based toolsupport, called jUCMNav [3]. GRL supports different bottom-up and top-down evaluation mechanisms (e.g., qualitative, quantitative, hybrid) that allow analysis of goal satisfaction and trade-off analysis when choosing between different alternatives.…”

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Formalizing and Modeling Enterprise Architecture (EA) Principles with Goal-Oriented Requirements Language (GRL)

Marosin

Zee

Ghanavati

2016

Advanced Information Systems Engineering

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Abstract. Enterprise Architecture (EA) principles are normally written in natural language which makes them informal, hard to evaluate and complicates tracing them to the actual goals of the organization. In this paper, we present a set of requirements for improving the clarity of definitions and develop a framework to formalize EA principles with a semi-formal language, namely the Goal-oriented Requirements Language (GRL). We introduce an extension of the language with the required constructs and establish modeling rules and constraints. This allows us to automatically reason about the soundness, completeness and consistency of a set of EA principles. We demonstrate our methodology with a case study from a governmental organization. Moreover, we extend an Eclipse-based tool.

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Towards Advanced Goal Model Analysis with jUCMNav

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TimedGRL: Specifying Goal Models Over Time

TimedGRL: Specifying Goal Models Over Time

A Framework for a Business Intelligence-Enabled Adaptive Enterprise Architecture

Formalizing and Modeling Enterprise Architecture (EA) Principles with Goal-Oriented Requirements Language (GRL)

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