Title: An approach oriented viewpoints for cooperative information system eliciting requirements

Authors: Kahina Kessi; Zaia Alimazighi; Mourad Chabane Oussalah

Addresses: LSI Laboratory, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene – USTHB, PB #32, El-Alia, Bab-Ezzouar – 16111, Algiers, Algeria ' LSI Laboratory, University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene – USTHB, PB #32, El-Alia, Bab-Ezzouar – 16111, Algiers, Algeria ' LINA Laboratory, Nantes University, 2 rue de la Houssiniere – BP 92208, 44322 Nantes cedex 3, France

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.

Keywords: viewpoints; abstraction level; needs analysis; requirements engineering; cooperative information system; CIS; model driven method; meta-model; modelling tool.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2019.102929

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2019 Vol.12 No.3, pp.151 - 178

Received: 10 Mar 2018
Accepted: 19 Nov 2018
Published online: 11 Oct 2019 *

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