TY - GEN
T1 - Know-how mapping – A goal-oriented approach and evaluation
AU - Arnon, Sturm
AU - Yu, Eric
AU - Abrishamkar, Sadra
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Springer International Publishing AG 2017.
PY - 2017/5/17
Y1 - 2017/5/17
N2 - Information system developers have to cope with a continually changing technological landscape. Knowing what each kind of technique or technology can do and how well they perform under various conditions constitute an important kind of know-how that systems professionals seek. In this paper, we claim that such know-how information can be structured as a map, so as to facilitate understanding and decision making about what technology to adopt or develop. Recent work has proposed to use a goal-oriented approach to address the challenge of constructing such a map. In this paper, we examine the hypothesis that a goal-oriented approach can be used for mapping and analyzing technological domains. First, we apply the approach to several domains, to verify the applicability and expressiveness of the approach. Second, we perform a feature-based analysis and examine the extent to which the approach addresses the desired characteristics of a know-how map. Third, we conduct a controlled experiment in which the comprehension of goal-oriented know-how maps in comparison to a textual summary from a literature review was examined. The evaluation results indicate that the goal-oriented know-how maps have sufficient expressiveness, are easy to read and understand, and address a number of desired characteristics.
AB - Information system developers have to cope with a continually changing technological landscape. Knowing what each kind of technique or technology can do and how well they perform under various conditions constitute an important kind of know-how that systems professionals seek. In this paper, we claim that such know-how information can be structured as a map, so as to facilitate understanding and decision making about what technology to adopt or develop. Recent work has proposed to use a goal-oriented approach to address the challenge of constructing such a map. In this paper, we examine the hypothesis that a goal-oriented approach can be used for mapping and analyzing technological domains. First, we apply the approach to several domains, to verify the applicability and expressiveness of the approach. Second, we perform a feature-based analysis and examine the extent to which the approach addresses the desired characteristics of a know-how map. Third, we conduct a controlled experiment in which the comprehension of goal-oriented know-how maps in comparison to a textual summary from a literature review was examined. The evaluation results indicate that the goal-oriented know-how maps have sufficient expressiveness, are easy to read and understand, and address a number of desired characteristics.
KW - Architecture Description Language
KW - Enterprise Architecture
KW - Goal Modeling
KW - Information System Engineering
KW - Tabular Representation
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-59466-8_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-59466-8_17
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783319594651
T3 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
SP - 272
EP - 286
BT - Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling - 18th International Conference, BPMDS 2017, 22nd International Conference, EMMSAD 2017 Held at CAiSE 2017, Proceedings
A2 - Gulden, Jens
A2 - Nurcan, Selmin
A2 - Reinhartz-Berger, Iris
A2 - Bera, Palash
A2 - Guedria, Wided
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 18th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2017 and 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2017 held at Conference on Advanced Informa...
Y2 - 12 June 2017 through 13 June 2017
ER -