In this research, we compare three related requirements engineering efforts: an industrial effort based on use cases; a case study analyzing these use cases by means of goal analysis; and a case study analyzing the same use cases with an integrated scenario analysis approach.

Due to the rapid expansion of information and communication technology (ICT) usage, the telecommunications industry is faced with a challenge to promote green ICT toward achieving a low-carbon society. One critical obstacle in planning long-term strategies for green ICT is the uncertainty of various external factors, such as consumers’ lifestyle and technological advancement. To tackle this iss...

As health organizations strive to improve operational efficiencies and increase worker productivity, new forms of health information technologies (HITs) are constantly being developed. This article surveys the extant HIT literature and adopts a case analysis approach to identifying emerging health information technologies. The understanding of HIT trend is further enriched through the applicati...

In this paper the relationship between body, motion and sound is addressed. The comparison with traditional instruments and dance is shown with regards to basic types of motion. The difference between gesture and movement is outlined and some of the models used in dance for structuring motion sequences are described. In order to identify expressive aspects of motion sequences a test scenario is...

Several concepts have been used to describe potential serous accidents in industrial activities. Examples of these concepts are worst case scenarios, likelier-but-less-catastrophic scenarios, most credible scenarios etc. A worst case scenario is a sequence of events/actions/accidents for a certain place (site) and time which causes the worst magnitude of an accident. Often these kind of acciden...

We propose a formal treatment of scenarios in the context of a dialectical argumentation formalism for qualitative reasoning about uncertain propositions. Our formalism extends prior work in which arguments for and against uncertain propositions were presented and compared in interaction spaces called Agoras. We now define the notion of a scenario in this framework and use it to define a set of...

∗ Work reported in this paper is partly supported by China National High Technology Research Programme (863 Programme) under grant 2002AA116070. Abstract Based on our previous work on the formal specification language SLABS as well as a methodology and modelling language for modelling and specifying multi-agent systems, we further investigate how diagrammatic models of multi-agent systems can b...

I am not going to speak about information technology (IT) today – others will. That is not to say that it is not a key driver of the change in the information environment, a change that will demand that we adapt curricula to meet new educational needs. Instead I want to focus on an important socio-cultural “force” that I believe will, as much as technology, create a transformation in scholarly ...