Software requirements activity, in the organizational context, is about addressing the business information problem; discover the needs for improving the situation and consequently specify the software requirements. Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE), aims to better understand the information problem by looking at organizational actors’ intentionality (goals and softgoals) first. Eli...

Retired Engineers are playing an important role in ensuring that older people are not excluded from the benefits of technological advances. Technology is playing an increasingly important role in the lives of older people as it is incorporated into assistive devices, home security, access to health care, banking, communication and many other areas. However, if older people are unfamiliar with n...

The engineers who analyze tra c on high bandwidth networks must lter and aggregate either recorded traces of network packets or live tra c from the network itself. These engineers perform operations similar to database queries, but cannot use conventional data managers because of performance concerns and a semantic mismatch between the analysis operations and the operations supported by commerc...

Telephone network planning engineers routinely study feeder routes within the telephone network in order to create and refine network capacity expansion (relief) plans. In doing so they make use of a powerful software tool called LEIS-PLAN. We are developing an extension to PLAN called PLANDoc that will automatically generate natural language narratives documenting the engineers’ use of PLAN. ...

The following paper describes a set of methods that is currently used in a study of the task performance process of patent engineers within the Swedish Patentand Registration Office (SPRO). The focus of the study is to investigate the relationship between the user’s work-task and the information seeking and retrieval process. The study is performed within a real life work setting where patent e...

DALI is a practical system that exploits Linked Data to provide federated entity search and spatial exploration across hundreds of information sources containing Open and Enterprise data pertaining to cities, which are stored in tabular files or in their original enterprise systems. Our system is able to lift data into a meaningful linked structure with explicit semantics, and support novel con...

The controlled enactment and continuous improvement of engineering design processes needs on the one hand explicitly defined, consistent process models and on the other hand software tools for monitoring and controlling the processes during runtime. In the research project T6 Dynamic Process Management based upon Existing Systems tool support for both tasks is provided. In one part of the proje...

Building environmental information systems is a challenging task. It involves a detailed analysis of the addressee’s needs, development of air pollutant concentration assessment and interpretation techniques, which must be tailored to the addressee, as well as the development of information planning and production strategies. Environmental engineers are increasingly often in charge of setting u...

Most enterprises operate within a complex and ever-changing context. Users understand the software as a means to meet their requirements and needs, thus, giving them a voice in the continuous runtime evaluation of software would naturally fit this level of abstraction to ensure that requirements keep pace with changing context. However, this evaluation knowledge is often provided in an ad-hoc m...