Departament d'Enginyeria de Serveis i Sistemes d'Informació

Recent Submissions

  • Enhancing federated cloud management with an integrated service monitoring approach 

    Kertész, Attila; Kecskemeti, Gabor; Oriol Hilari, Marc; Kotcauer, Péter; Acs, Sandor; Rodríguez Navarro, Marc; Mercè Pont, Oscar; Marosi, Csaba Attila; Marco Gómez, Jordi; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier (2013-12)
    Article
    Open Access
    Cloud Computing enables the construction and the provisioning of virtualized service-based applications in a simple and cost effective outsourcing to dynamic service environments. Cloud Federations envisage a distributed, ...

  • On the adequacy of i* models for representing and analyzing software architectures 

    Grau, Gemma; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier (Springer, 2007)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    In order to work at the software architecture level, specification languages and analysis techniques are needed. There exist many proposals that serve that purpose, but few of them address architecture and requirements ...

  • A goal-oriented approach for the generation and evaluation of alternative architectures 

    Grau, Gemma; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier (Springer, 2007)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    There is a recognized gap between requirements and architectures. There is also evidence that architecture evaluation, when done at the early phases of the development lifecycle, is an effective way to ensure the quality ...

  • Systematic construction of i* strategic dependency models for socio-technical systems 

    Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Grau Colom, Gemma; Mayol Sarroca, Enric; Quer, Carme; Ayala Martínez, Claudia Patricia; Cares Gallardo, Carlos; Navarrete Ramírez, Fredy Javier; Haya, Mariela; Botella López, Pere (2007-02)
    Article
    Open Access
    Goal- and agent-oriented models have become a consolidated type of artifact in various software and knowledge engineering activities. Several languages exist for representing such type of models but there is a lack of ...

  • A goal-oriented strategy for supporting commercial off-the-shelf components selection 

    Ayala Martínez, Claudia Patricia; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier (Springer, 2006)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The use of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components is becoming a strategic need because they offer the possibility to build systems at reduced costs and within shorter development time. Having efficient and reliable ...

  • Data-driven elicitation of quality requirements in agile companies 

    Oriol Hilari, Marc; Seppänen, Pertti; Behutiye, Woubshet; Farré Tost, Carles; Kozik, Rafal; Martinez Fernandez, Silverio; Rodríguez, Pilar; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Aaramaa, Sanja; Abhervé, Antonin; Choras, Michal; Partanen, Jari (Springer, 2019)
    Conference report
    Restricted access - publisher's policy
    Quality Requirements (QRs) are a key artifact to ensure the quality and success of a software system. Despite its importance, QRs have not reached the same degree of attention as its functional counterparts, especially in ...

  • Building and using quality models for complex software domains 

    Carvallo Vega, Juan Pablo; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; Quer, Carme (2003)
    External research report
    Open Access
    The use of quality models in software package procurement provides a framework for the description of the domain which the package belongs to. Package descriptions and user quality requirements may be translated into the ...

  • Automatic business process model extension to repair constraint violations 

    Oriol Hilari, Xavier; Giacomo, Giuseppe De; Estañol Lamarca, Montserrat; Teniente López, Ernest (Springer, 2019)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Consider an artifact-centric business process model, containing both a data model and a process model. When executing the process, it may happen that some of the data constraints from the data model are violated. Bearing ...

  • Goal and variability modeling for service-oriented system: Integrating i* with decision models 

    Grünbacher, Paul; Dhungana, Deepak; Seyff, Norbert; Quintus, Michael; Clotet Martínez, Roger; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; López Cuesta, Lidia; Marco Gómez, Jordi (Helsinki University of Technology, 2007)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Variability modeling and service-orientation are important approaches that address both the flexibility and adaptability required by stakeholders of today’s software systems. Goal-oriented approaches for modeling ...

  • Practical experiences and value of applying software analytics to manage quality 

    Vollmer, Anna Maria; Martinez Fernandez, Silverio; Bagnato, Alessandra; Partanen, Jari; López Cuesta, Lidia; Rodríguez, Pilar (IEEE Press, 2019)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Background: Despite the growth in the use of software analytics platforms in industry, little empirical evidence is available about the challenges that practitioners face and the value that these platforms provide. Aim: ...

  • On the use of requirement patterns to analyse request for proposal documents 

    Costal Costa, Dolors; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier; López Cuesta, Lidia; Palomares Bonache, Cristina; Quer, Carme (Springer, 2019)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Requirements reuse is still today a difficult goal to achieve. One particular context in which requirements reuse may give more benefits than costs is that of call for tenders projects, due to the similarity of the ...

  • Lessons learned on the use of i* by non-technical users 

    Carvallo Vega, Juan Pablo; Franch Gutiérrez, Javier (CEUR-WS.org, 2014)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Enterprise Architecting activities, particularly the mapping from business strategies to information systems architectures, are time-consuming activities usually conducted by relatively large teams, composed of groups of ...

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