Alexei Lapouchnian, Ph.D.

Publications

Book Chapters

V. Souza, A. Lapouchnian, W. Robinson, J. Mylopoulos. Awareness Requirements. In R. de Lemos, H. Giese, H. Müller, & M. Shaw (Eds.), Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems II, LNCS Vol. 7475, pp. 133–161, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.

A. Lapouchnian and Y. Lespérance. Using Formal Agent Specification Languages for the Analysis, Verification, and Simulation of i* Models. In Eric Yu, Paolo Giorgini, Neil Maiden, John Mylopoulos (Eds.). Social Modeling for Requirements Engineering.  MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-262-24055-0. [Available at: Amazon.com, Amazon.ca]

A. Lapouchnian and Y. Lespérance. Using the ConGolog and CASL Formal Agent Specification Languages for the Analysis, Verification, and Simulation of i* Models. In Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications. Essays in Honor of John Mylopoulos. A. Borgida, V. Chaudry, P. Giorgini, E. Yu (Eds.), LNCS 5600, pp. 483-503, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.

Journal Papers

A. Lapouchnian, E. Yu, S. Deng. Responding to Ongoing Change – Challenges for Information Systems Modeling. International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design (IJISMD), 5(4), 2014. (Available at IGI-Global).

V. Souza, A. Lapouchnian, K. Angelopoulos, J. Mylopoulos. Requirements-driven software evolution. Computer Science - Research and Development, 28(4):311–329, November 2013. (Available at Springer).

A. Lapouchnian and Y. Lespérance. Interfacing IndiGolog and OAA - A Toolkit for Advanced Multiagent Applications. Applied Artificial Intelligence, 16(9-10):813-829, 2002.
(Earlier version appeared in Cybernetics and Systems 2002 - Proc. EMCSR 2002, 3rd Int. Symposium "From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation", R.Trappl (ed.), Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, Vienna, Austria, April 2-5, 2002.)
[More information on this project can be found here]

Conference Papers

Z. Babar, A. Lapouchnian. E. Yu. Modeling and Analyzing Process Architecture for Context-Driven Adaptation. In Proc. 22nd Enterprise Computing Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, Oct 16-19, 2018.

A. Lapouchnian, Z. Babar, E. Yu. Designing Process Architectures for User Engagement with Enterprise Cognitive Systems. In Proc. 10th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM 2017), Leuven, Belgium, Nov 22-24, 2017.

A. Lapouchnian, Z. Babar, E. Yu. Designing User Engagement for Cognitively-Enhanced Processes. In Proc. 27th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON 2017), Toronto, Canada, Nov 6-8, 2017.

A. Lapouchnian and E. Yu. Exploring Context Sensing in the Goal-Driven Design of Business Processes. In Proc. 18th IEEE Conference on Business Informatics (CBI 2016), Paris, France, Aug 29 - Sep 1, 2016.

Z. Babar, A. Lapouchnian, E. Yu. Modeling DevOps Deployment Choices Using Process Architecture Design Dimensions. In Proc. 8th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM 2015), Valencia, Spain, Nov 10-12, 2015.

A. Lapouchnian, E. Yu, A. Sturm. Design Dimensions for Business Process Architecture. In Proc. 34th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2015), Stockholm, Sweden, Oct 19-22, 2015.

A. Lapouchnian, E. Yu, A. Sturm. Re-Designing Process Architectures: Towards a Framework of Design Dimensions. In Proc. 9th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2015), Athens, Greece, May 13-15, 2015.

A. Lapouchnian and E. Yu. Exploiting Emergent Technologies to Create Systems that Meet Shifting Expectations. In Proc. Emergent Technologies Track at CASCON 2014, Toronto, Canada, Nov 3-5, 2014.

E. Yu, A. Lapouchnian, S. Deng. Adapting to Uncertain and Evolving Enterprise Requirements: The case of business-driven business intelligence. In Proc. 7th IEEE International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2013), Paris, France, May 29-31, 2013. (Acceptance rate: 29%, 155 submissions).

V. Souza, A. Lapouchnian, J. Mylopoulos. Requirements-Driven Qualitative Adaptation. In Proc. 20th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2012), Rome, Italy, Sep 10-14, 2012. R. Meersman, H. Panetto, T. Dillon, S. Rinderle-Ma, P. Dadam, X. Zhou, S. Pearson, et al. (Eds.), OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM 2012), LNCS Vol. 7565, pp. 342–361, Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.

V. Souza, A. Lapouchnian, J. Mylopoulos. (Requirement) Evolution Requirements for Adaptive Systems. In Proc. 7th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2012), Zurich, Switzerland, June 4-5, 2012. (Acceptance rate: 30%, 50 submissions).

V. Souza, A. Lapouchnian, J. Mylopoulos. System Identification for Adaptive Software Systems: a Requirements Engineering Perspective. In Proc. 30th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2011), Brussels, Belgium, Oct 31 - Nov 3, 2011. (Acceptance rate: 15.9%, 157 submissions).

V. Souza, A. Lapouchnian, W.N. Robinson, J. Mylopoulos. Awareness Requirements for Adaptive Systems. In Proc. 6th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2011), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 23-24, 2011.

A. Lapouchnian and J. Mylopoulos. Modeling Domain Variability in Requirements Engineering with Contexts. In Proc. 28th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2009), Gramado, Brazil, Nov 9-12, 2009. A.H.F. Laender, S. Castano, U. Dayal, F. Casati, J.P.M. de Oliveira (Eds.), LNCS Vol. 5829, pp. 115-130, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. (Acceptance rate: 19%, 162 submissions).

Y. Yu, A. Lapouchnian, S. Liaskos J. Mylopoulos, J.C.S.P. Leite. From Goals to High-Variability Software Design. In Proc. 17th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS 2008), Toronto, Canada, May 20-23, 2008, pp. 1-16. Invited Paper. A. An, et al. (Eds.), Foundations of Intelligent Systems, ISMIS 2008, LNAI Vol. 4994, pp. 1-16, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.

Y. Yu, A. Lapouchnian, J.C.S.P. Leite, J. Mylopoulos. Configuring Features with Stakeholder Goals. In Proc. 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2008), RE Track, Brazil, Mar 16-20, 2008. (Acceptance rate: 29%, 1307 submissions).

A. Lapouchnian, Y. Yu, J. Mylopoulos. Requirements-Driven Design and Configuration Management of Business Processes. In Proc. 5th International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM 2007), Brisbane, Australia, Sep 24-28, 2007. G. Alonso, P. Dadam, and M. Rosemann (Eds.), LNCS Vol. 4714, pp. 246-261, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2007. (Acceptance rate: 14.5%, 152 submissions).

A. Lapouchnian, Y. Yu, S. Liaskos, J. Mylopoulos. Requirements-Driven Design of Autonomic Application Software. In Proc. 16th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering CASCON 2006, Toronto, Canada, Oct 16-19, 2006. (Acceptance rate: 26.7%, 90 submissions). In 2016, this paper won the CASCON "Most Influential Paper of 2006" award.

S. Liaskos, A. Lapouchnian, Y. Yu, E. Yu, J. Mylopoulos. On Goal-based Variability Acquisition and Analysis. In Proc. 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'06), Minneapolis, USA, Sep 11-15, 2006. (Acceptance rate: 13.8%, 181 submissions).

A. Lapouchnian and Y. Lespérance. Modeling Mental States in Agent-Oriented Requirements Engineering. In Proc. 18th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'06), Luxembourg, June 5-9, 2006. E. Dubois and K. Pohl (Eds.), LNCS Vol. 4001, pp. 480-494, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. (Acceptance rate: 17.5%, 189 submissions).

A. Lapouchnian and Y. Lespérance. Modeling Mental States in the Analysis of Multiagent Systems Requirements. In Proc. 5th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'06), Hakodate, Japan, May 8-12, 2006. [An extended version of this paper appears in Agent-Oriented Software Engineering 2006, L. Padgham and F. Zambonelli (Eds.), LNCS Vol. 4405, pp. 104 –121, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2007].

S. Liaskos, A. Lapouchnian, Y. Wang, Y. Yu, S. Easterbrook. Configuring Common Personal Software: a Requirements-Driven Approach. In Proc. 13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'05), Paris, France, Aug 29 - Sep 2, 2005. (Acceptance rate: 20%, 175 submissions).

Y. Yu, Y.Wang, J. Mylopoulos, S. Liaskos, A. Lapouchnian, J.C.S.P. Leite. Refactoring Source Code Into Goal Models. In Proc. 13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'05), Paris, France, Aug 29 - Sep 2, 2005. (Acceptance rate: 20%, 175 submissions).

Workshop Papers

Z. Babar, A. Lapouchnian, E. Yu. Modeling Evolving Human User Engagements with Cognitive Advisory Agents using the i* Framework. (To appIn Proc. 11th International i* Workshop (istar 2018), Tallinn, Estonia, June 12, 2018.

Z. Babar, A. Lapouchnian, E. Yu. Chatbot Design - Reasoning About Design Options Using i* and Process Architecture. In Proc. 10th International i* Workshop (istar 2017), Essen, Germany, June 12-13, 2017.

E. Yu and A. Lapouchnian. Architecting the Enterprise to Leverage a Confluence of Emerging Technologies. In Proc. 1st International Workshop on Advancement from Confluence of Emerging Technologies (ACET 2013) at CASCON 2013, Toronto, Canada, Nov 19, 2013.

A. Lapouchnian and J. Mylopoulos. Capturing Contextual Variability in i* Models. In Proc. 5th International i* Workshop (istar 2011), Trento, Italy, Aug 29-30, 2011.

A. Lapouchnian and Y. Lespérance. From Adaptive Systems Design to Autonomous Agent Design. In Proc. 4th International i* Workshop (istar 2010), Hammamet, Tunisia, June 7-8, 2010.

Y. Lespérance and A. Lapouchnian. On Using i* for Modeling Autonomy, Reasoning, and Planning in Adaptive Systems. In Proc. 3rd International i* Workshop (istar 2008), Recife, Brazil, Feb 11-12, 2008, pp. 55-60.

S. Liaskos, L. Jiang, A. Lapouchnian, Y. Wang, Y. Yu, J.C.S.P. Leite, J. Mylopoulos. Exploring the Dimensions of Variability: a Requirements Engineering Perspective. In Proc. First International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS 2007), Limerick, Ireland, Jan 16-18, 2007.

Y. Yu, A. Lapouchnian, S. Liaskos, J. Mylopoulos. Requirements-Driven Configuration of Software Systems. WCRE 2005 Workshop on Reverse Engineering to Requirements (RETR'05), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Nov 7, 2005.

A. Lapouchnian, S. Liaskos, J. Mylopoulos, Y. Yu. Towards Requirements-Driven Autonomic Systems Design. In Proc. ICSE 2005 Workshop on Design and Evolution of Autonomic Application Software (DEAS 2005), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, May 21, 2005. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 30(4), July 2005.

A. Lapouchnian and Y. Lespérance. Interfacing IndiGolog and OAA - A Toolkit for Advanced Multiagent Applications. Cognitive Robotics (CogRob 2002), Papers from the AAAI Workshop, Technical Report WS-02-05, pp. 66-72, AAAI Press, 2002.

Theses

Alexei Lapouchnian. Exploiting Requirements Variability for Software Customization and Adaptation. Ph.D. Thesis. Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada. 2010.

Alexei Lapouchnian. Modeling Mental States in Requirements Engineering -- An Agent-Oriented Framework Based on i* and CASL. M.Sc. Thesis. Dept. of Computer Science, York University, Toronto, Canada. 2004.

Other Publications

I. Zaks, A. Lapouchnian, V. Skorokhod. AI and Factoring - An Upcoming Revolution? In World Factoring Yearbook 2018, BCR Publishing, June 2018.

I. Zaks and A. Lapouchnian. Supply Chain Finance and Artificial Intelligence - A Game Changing Relationship? In Receivables Finance Technology 2018, BCR Publishing, March 2018.

A. Lapouchnian, E. Yu, A. Sturm. Re-Designing Process Architectures. Technical Report CSRG-625, University of Toronto, 2015.

A. Borgida, N. Ernst, I. Jureta, A. Lapouchnian, S. Liaskos, J. Mylopoulos. Techne: (A)nother Requirements Modeling Language. Technical Report CSRG-593, University of Toronto, 2009.

S. Liaskos, A. Lapouchnian, Y. Wang, Y. Yu, and S.Easterbrook. Configuring Common Personal Software: a Requirements-Driven Approach. Technical Report CSRG-512, University of Toronto, 2005.

Y. Yu, J. Mylopoulos, A. Lapouchnian, S. Liaskos, J.C. Leite. From Stakeholder Goals to High-Variability Software Design. Technical Report CSRG-509, University of Toronto, 2005.

Y. Yu, Y.Wang, J. Mylopoulos, S. Liaskos, A. Lapouchnian, J.C. Leite. Refactoring Source Code Into Goal Models. Technical Report CSRG-510, University of Toronto, 2005.

A. Lapouchnian. Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: An Overview of the Current Research. Depth Report, University of Toronto, 2005.