Using Semantic Technologies to Enhance a Requirements Engineering Approach for Alignment of IT with Business Strategy

Author

Veres, Csaba ; Sampson, Jennifer ; Bleistein, Steven J. ; Cox, Karl ; Verner, June

Author_Institution

Infomedia, Univ. of Bergen (UiB), Bergen

fYear

2009

fDate

16-19 March 2009

Firstpage

469

Lastpage

474

Abstract

B-SCP is a promising framework addressing alignment of IT with business strategy from a requirements engineering perspective. A problem with the B-SCP framework is that it is extremely difficult to track dependencies between requirements in a project of realistic complexity. We discuss how the RDF data model with OWL semantics, will greatly benefit an implementation using B-SCP. Our contribution is to extend B-SCP by describing an ontology data structure for representing the requirements and the complex rules which map them together. Seven Eleven-Japan is used as an exemplar to demonstrate improved productivity and consistency of B-SCP.

Keywords

DP management; data models; electronic data interchange; formal specification; formal verification; knowledge management; knowledge representation languages; meta data; ontologies (artificial intelligence); programming language semantics; systems analysis; B-SCP framework; OWL semantics; RDF data model; business strategy; knowledge management; ontology data structure; organizational IT alignment; requirements engineering approach; semantic technology; Australia; Competitive intelligence; Context modeling; Data models; Information systems; OWL; Ontologies; Power engineering and energy; Resource description framework; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, 2009. CISIS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fukuoka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3569-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3575-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISIS.2009.199

Filename

5066826