Using i* models for evaluation.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780494160961
Description: To cope with the rapidly increasing complexity of socio-technical systems, requirements analysts have explored the practice of modeling stakeholder goals and intentions behind systems using organizational modeling frameworks such as i*.	An evaluation procedure can be applied to an i* model to determine whether stakeholder goals are achieved. This work identifies desired qualities of such an evaluation procedure and used these qualities to assess existing goal model evaluation procedures. Based on this assessment, we have chosen the evaluation procedure described with the NFR Framework (Chung, Nixon, Yu, & Mylopoulos, 2000) for adaptation and expansion for use with the i* Framework. We demonstrate the ability of the resulting procedure to improve model quality through a detection of semantic flaws.	This procedure is applied to five case studies, exhibiting its ability to provide useful analysis in diverse contexts. Areas of future investigation for i* modeling and evaluation are identified.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, page: 2841.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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