By providing a route from model to architecture, Model Driven Architecture (MDA) promises, among other things, to narrow the gap between business users and software developers. That is, the approach is intended to involve stakeholders in modelling, so that, by transformation from Computationally...

The i* framework has been available in research communities for more than ten years, but it has not been applied widely in industrial requirements projects. This is despite undoubted strengths, which include a simple but formal and stable semantics, a graphical modeling notation that is simple...

The fundamentals of a good decision-making are, first, clear understanding of the decision itself and, second, the availability of properly focused information to support the decision. Decision-making techniques help with both these problems. However, the techniques should be thought of as aids...

Over the last 5 years a quiet revolution in business systems development has taken place towards the use of enterprise-wide, off-the-shelf software solutions. At the end of 1997, BusinessWeek estimated the value of this global enterprise applications package (EAP) market at $10billion and still...