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Goal-oriented modeling languages have been proposed to elicit, analyze, and document high-level system requirements in the early stages of the requirements engineering (RE) process. Problems during this stage may disseminate to the subsequent ...

Social commitments are recognized as an abstraction that enables flexible coordination between autonomous agents. We make these contributions. First, we introduce and formalize a concept of a maintenance commitment, a kind of social commitment ...

Agent-Based Simulation is a suitable approach used now-a-days to simulate and analyze complex societal environments and scenarios. Current Agent-Based Simulation frameworks either scale quite well in computation but implement very simple reasoning ...

Goals are fundamental to everyday life and are reflected in the growing HCI research in personal informatics and behaviour change. Besides academic work, a wealth of commercial mobile apps have also been developed to support users in setting their goals ...

In a changing world, dominated by fierce competition, it is imperative that companies have the necessary agility to adapt to the market constraints where they operate, investing in frameworks that promote the achievement of planned results. There are ...

Scholarly literature discusses several goals companies pursue with robotic process automation. These goals include both instrumental and humanistic objectives, such as increased process efficiency or higher job satisfaction. However, single case ...

Decision-making has become more critical for organizations in the 21st century. The citizens’ countless needs and the emerging problems (internal and external) faced by governments increase the complexity of government decisions worldwide. The research ...

Food recommender systems optimize towards a user’s current preferences. However, appetites may vary, in the sense that users might seek healthy recipes today and look for unhealthy meals tomorrow. In this paper, we propose a novel approach in the food ...

Behavior change research usually takes a theory-driven or application-specific approach. We took a user-centered view of real-world user needs and conducted a survey with 53 participants to investigate the overall behavior change goals and support ...

We present the GFI framework (standing for Goals, Feedback, and Interpretation), inductively developed to address the MDA framework’s shortcomings as a lens and tool for modeling games. GFI stands parallel to MDA as a formal approach that offers ...

A majority of the regression testing techniques proposed by academics have not been adopted in industry. To increase adoption rates, we need to improve our understanding of the practitioners’ perspectives on ...

This paper focuses on (an interpretation of) the Enkratic principle of rationality, according to which rationality requires that if an agent sincerely and with conviction believes she ought to X, then X-ing is a goal in her plan. We analyze the ...

The problem of understanding whether a process trace satisfies a prescriptive model is a fundamental conceptual modeling problem in the context of process-based information systems. In business process management, and in process mining in ...

The purpose of this study is to understand (1) college students' goals and the strategies needed to achieve these goals through a bottom-up approach and (2) the use of mobile technology to support such strategies. To do this, we conducted a user study ...

The increasing use of information and communication technologies for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) establishes a complex media, interaction and learning scenario not currently supported by models of communication, computation, and ...

We review the extensive literature since 2000 on the personality traits of entrepreneurs. We first consider baseline personality traits like the Big-5 model, self-efficacy and innovativeness, locus of control, and the need for achievement. We then ...

Good requirements are an essential prerequisite for successful IT projects. Consequently, IT students should already be exposed to requirements-related intricacies at universities. Some authors argue that requirements engineering education should ...

The use of leaderboards is a common approach to the gamification of employee performance, but little is known about the specific mechanisms and mediating processes by which leaderboards actually affect employee behavior. Given the lack of research in ...

We develop a method for Value Based Compliance analysis of information security.We develop a set of design principles for a Value Based Compliance analysis method.We analyse value conflicts behind information security non-compliance.We provide a hands-...

A key aspect of engineering secure systems is identifying adequate security requirements to protect critical assets from harm. However, security requirements may compete with other requirements such as cost and usability. For this reason, they may only ...