Information system development can often be addressed as a business process
reengineering practice, either because it automates some human-based processes or …

Agile development aims at rapidly developing software while embracing the continuous
evolution of user requirements along the whole development process. User stories are the …

Agent-oriented models are used in organization and information system modelling for
providing intentional descriptions of processes as a network of relationships among actors …

Some quality attributes are known to have an impact on the overall architecture of a system,
so that they are required to be properly handled from the early beginning of the software …

Architectural design is an important activity, but the understanding of how it is related to
requirements modeling is rather limited. It is worth noting that goal orientation is an …

Agent-oriented software engineering has become an extended practice. The autonomy and
flexibility provided by agents makes it appropriate either for the development of agentbased …

The process of building software systems by assembling and integrating pre-packaged
solutions in the form of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components has become …

Conceptual modeling allows abstraction, communication and consensus building in system
development. It is challenging to expand and improve the accuracy of models in an iterative …

Transitioning to the Agile style of software development has become an increasing
phenomenon among software companies. The commonly perceived advantages of Agile …

Information Systems are a crucial asset of the organizations and can provide competitive
advantages to them. However, once the Information System is built, it has to be maintained …