Road map for readings on i*
:
For a quick overview, you may start with RE97 which presents
i* concepts in a Requirements Engineering context.
A vision for strategic actors modelling in the context of
Agent-Oriented
Software Engineering is outlined in AOSE01. A similar overview for the
Information
Systems context is presented in WIj01.
For a simple presentation of the framework in a Business Process
Redesign
context, you may start with either WITS94 or IEEE
Expert 96. Both provide an overview of the framework, with
the
latter including an example of ConGolog process modelling. The COOCS93
paper focuses on the Strategic Dependency model (called the
Actor
Dependency model at the time). These papers should be enough to get you
started in doing i* modelling.
CACM99
provides an overview of goal-oriented
analysis, which is an important part of i*. An
earlier illustration of i* reasoning appeared in HICSS94
(This is now part of the Strategic Rationale model.)
The ICSE94
paper is an application of the i*
framework to Software Processes and Organizations. It has
examples
of the distinction among Agents, Roles, and Positions, and a
discussion
of enforcement, assurance, and insurance. These are further
illustrated
in ICEIMT97.
IFAC99
offers examples of Business Modelling,
with an example about IKEA. These are further illustrated in ER01.
The latter also shows how i* modelling can be used to
help
reason about Patents in a strategic business context, with
examples
from e-commerce (online travel booking). The mechanisms for modelling
patent
protection is similar to those for modelling Trust and Security
in Trust00.
The WIj01
paper provides a more detailed explanation
of the premises behind the i* ontology. The main
arguments
are summarized in the AOIS01 invited
presentation.
COOCS95
compares several different approaches
to modelling organizational work, including IBIS, KAOS, and
Action
Workflow (speech acts).
IWSSD98
and CoopIS95
provide examples of how i* may be used in conjunction
with
other modelling or specification languages in the context of software
development.
The ER94
paper contains some partial schemas and
axioms for the models. More details are available in the PhD
thesis
[Yu95].
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Yijun Yu, Julio Cesar Sampaio do Prado Leite,
John Mylopoulos: From
Goals to Aspects: Discovering Aspects from Requirements Goal Models.
in: IEEE
Joint International Conference on Requirements
Engineering 2004, Kyoto Japan. pp. 33-42.