Papers by Pericles Loucopoulos
Goal oriented modelling (GOM) is one of the most prominent and widely accepted techniques in info... more Goal oriented modelling (GOM) is one of the most prominent and widely accepted techniques in information systems research. Since the early 1990’s, a large number of GOM approaches have been proposed aiming to a better alignment between business strategy and the behaviour of supporting systems. Different GOM approaches focus on different activities in the early stages of system development and propose a variety of strategies for reasoning about goals. A number of researchers have stressed the advantages of integrating different GOM techniques, especially in the context of modern global business environments. This is evidenced in the increasing number of publications in this area. However as each GOM language (even versions of the same language) comes with its own syntactic and semantic singularities, such integration requires a number of complicated transformations which is a major obstacle to model and tool interoperability, and prevent wider adoption by practitioners. In order to p...
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This paper reports on a Systems Analysis task for specifying the business requirements of a leadi... more This paper reports on a Systems Analysis task for specifying the business requirements of a leading automotive industry manufacturer or augmenting their production system with cyber physical components to address two problems that they are currently facing with inbound logistics and production interruptions both of which could result in substantial financial losses. Requirements were captured, documented and reasoned about using a systematic approach that was facilitated by a conceptual modeling framework, consisting of 4 modeling views, for iteratively representing information gathered from domain experts and for validating the requirements.
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Proceedings of the 2018 10th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering, 2018
This paper presents a capability-oriented approach that facilitates strategic decisions for deali... more This paper presents a capability-oriented approach that facilitates strategic decisions for dealing with emergent behaviour and dynamics of artefacts and their evolutionary trajectory, where these artefacts are often a blending of physical and cyber actors working synergistically for achieving enterprise goals. We demonstrate this approach using an example from an application involving decision making for supporting venue operations for the Doha 2022 World Cup Games. The example focuses on the operations surrounding the strategy for security measures for entrance of spectators to a venue. For this specific example one needs to identify the capabilities required in order to establish a level of service acceptable to spectators within the resource constraints to be offered by the organising committee.
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International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems
A critical factor in successful requirements analysis appears to be the understanding not only of... more A critical factor in successful requirements analysis appears to be the understanding not only of what the system under consideration should do, but also why. To capture the purpose of an information system, one needs a mechanism to describe the behaviour of the organization in which the system will operate. This approach suggests further understanding and modelling of the organizational goals and the way that these goals become operationalised. In software systems development we often make the distinction between the enter prise world and the system world. The former describes the domain about which the proposed software system is to provide some service, while the second is concerned with specifications on what the system does and include descriptions of the systems requirements, conceptual designs and implementations. This paper describes an approach which involves the explicit modelling of organizational objectives, social roles and operations and the synthesis of these differen...
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2016 IEEE 18th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI), 2016
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Umist 1991 Report No E2469 Umist T5 1 9, 1991
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6Th International Conference on Business Information Systems Colorado Springs Colorado U S a 2003, 2003
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Heidelberg Springer 2009, 2009
Since its inception in 1968, software engineering has undergone numerous changes. In the early ye... more Since its inception in 1968, software engineering has undergone numerous changes. In the early years, software development was organized using the waterfall model, where the focus of requirements engineering was on a frozen requirements document, which formed the basis of the subsequent design and implementation process. Since then, a lot has changed: software has to be developed faster, in larger and distributed teams, for pervasive as well as large-scale applications, with more flexibility, and with ongoing maintenance and quick ...
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Manchester Umist 1997 Report No Elektra Wp5 T5 1 Umist 1, 1997
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Software Engineering Journal 1989 4 259 267, Sep 1, 1989
Abstract The paper is concerned with the problems of developing and enhancing large, data-intensi... more Abstract The paper is concerned with the problems of developing and enhancing large, data-intensive, transaction-oriented systems (business information systems). The essential problem with these systems is their inflexibility to change, compounded by the fact that most contemporary software processes fail to adequately address the specific problem of system evolution. The development of information systems requires the adoption of a new paradigm which recognises the explicit separation of organisational policy from programming code. ...
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Abstract A critical success factor for information systems is their ability to evolve as their en... more Abstract A critical success factor for information systems is their ability to evolve as their environment changes. There is compelling evidence that the management of change in business policy can have a profound effect on an information system's ability to evolve effectively and efficiently. For this to be successful, there is a need to represent business rules from the early requirements stage, expressed in user-understandable terms, to downstream system design components and maintain these throughout the lifecycle of the ...
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In Design Process Improvement a Review of Current Practice Springer 2004 P 116 139, 2004
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Ieee Symposium and Workshop on Engineering of Computer Based Systems Friedrichshafen Germany Ieee Computer Society 1996, 1996
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Infsof, 1989
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Bda, 1991
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6Th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems Porto Portugal 2004, 2004
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2015 18th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 2015
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