An approach oriented viewpoints for cooperative information system eliciting requirements. (9th October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kessi, Kahina; Alimazighi, Zaia; Oussalah, Mourad Chabane
• Is Part Of: International journal of intelligent information and database systems. Volume 12:Number 3(2019)
• Page Start: 151
• Page End: 178
• Publication Date: 2019-10-09
• Subjects: viewpoints -- abstraction level -- needs analysis -- requirements engineering -- cooperative information system -- CIS -- model driven method -- meta-model -- modelling tool; Database management -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Information retrieval -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; Artificial intelligence -- Periodicals; Expert systems (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Intelligent agents (Computer software) -- Periodicals; 006.33
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1751-5858

Abstract

Cooperative information system (CIS) is a complex system that involves the cooperation of several stakeholders sharing a common purpose, with different viewpoint on the system. This makes its development more difficult. The successful design of a CIS is then mainly based on the definition of the requirements engineering phase. In software engineering domain, especially in requirements engineering domain, Viewpoint and abstraction level are two important concepts introduced to reduce systems complexity. In this paper, we present an approach oriented viewpoints/abstraction levels which defines the necessary concepts to elicit the requirements of a CIS. In doing so, a model driven method is proposed to develop a CIS modelling tool. In this method, we proposed first a meta-model oriented viewpoints/abstraction levels which decomposes a CIS according to its different viewpoints. We then proposed a modelling tool, viewpoints for cooperative information system (VpCIS) generated from the meta-model.