A DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE FOR THE I* FRAMEWORK

Carlos Nunes, João Araújo, Vasco Amaral, Carla Silva

2009

Abstract

The i* framework proposes a goal-oriented analysis method for requirements engineering. It is a systematic approach to discover and structure requirements at organizational level where functional, non-functional requirements and their relations are specified. A Domain Specific Language (DSL) has the purpose to specify and model concepts in some domain, having several advantages in relation to general purpose languages, such as it allows expressing a solution in the desired language and at the desired abstraction level. In order to create such a DSL, normally it is necessary to start by specifying its syntax by means of a metamodel to be given as input to the language workbenches that generate the corresponding editors for it. With a proper editor for the language we can specify models with the proposed notation. This paper presents a DSL for the i* framework, with the purpose to handle complexity and scalability of its concrete models by introducing some innovations in the i* framework metamodel like mechanisms that will help to manage the models scalability.

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Nunes C., Araújo J., Amaral V. and Silva C. (2009). A DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE FOR THE I* FRAMEWORK . In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-84-5, pages 158-163. DOI: 10.5220/0001995301580163


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@conference{iceis09,
author={Carlos Nunes and João Araújo and Vasco Amaral and Carla Silva},
title={A DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE FOR THE I* FRAMEWORK},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2009},
pages={158-163},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001995301580163},
isbn={978-989-8111-84-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - A DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE FOR THE I* FRAMEWORK
SN - 978-989-8111-84-5
AU - Nunes C.
AU - Araújo J.
AU - Amaral V.
AU - Silva C.
PY - 2009
SP - 158
EP - 163
DO - 10.5220/0001995301580163