Knowledge Management and Collaboration Systems
Use Cases in Requirements Capture – Trends and Open Issues
A. Amaechi, S. Counsell
Abstract
Despite the wide acceptance and usage of use case models, there is still controversy among practitioners and researchers on issues such as correct applicability of use case models, levels of abstraction desirable in a use case model and the kind of rules that guide inspection of use cases. This work presents the findings of a review of the literature related to the challenges concerning use case models. This paper presents the lessons learned from literature review of use case models research studies published in the Journal of Object Technology and Requirements Engineering Journal published from 2000 to 2010 and International Requirements Engineering Conference proceedings from 2002 to 2010.
Keywords
use cases, requirements, models
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Proactive Personalized Mobile Multi-Blogging Service on Smart-M3
Dmitry G. Korzun, Ivan V. Galov, Sergey I. Balandin
Abstract
This paper discusses the project targeted in development of proactive, personalized and composite services for the blogosphere. By applying the smart spaces paradigm we have developed an approach for composition of blog spaces. We contribute formal technique for construction of proactive and personalized service for bloggers as well as for its integration with external applications. The proposed technique is implemented in SmartScribo application on top of the Smart-M3 platform. The developed prototype solution has confirmed that the approach results in services with the next quality level.
Keywords
Smart spaces, Smart-M3, Blogging, Personalized, Proactive, Composite
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Integrated Framework for Virtual Team Management
Ante Martinic, Kresimir Fertalj, Damir Kalpic
Abstract
Virtual teams are increasingly engaged in globalized business environments. Virtual teams work across space, time and organizational boundaries with links ensured by information and communication technologies. Communication, collaboration, and knowledge exchange are the most important in virtual teams’ operations and their efficiency directly influences teams’ performance. In this paper benefits and challenges of virtual teams are described, and description of software tools used by virtual teams is given. Previous efforts to provide efficient communication, collaboration, and management tools and frameworks for virtual teams are summarized. Some promising research directions are indicated. Finally, integrated framework for virtual team management is proposed.
Keywords
virtual teams, project management, collaboration, software tools, groupware
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A Framework for Semantic Enrichment of Sensor Data
Alexandra Moraru, Dunja Mladenić
Abstract
The increased interest in sensing the environment in which we live has led to the deployment of thousands of sensors which can measure and report its status. In order to raise the impact that sensor networks can have, improving the usability and accessibility of the measurements they provide is an important step.
The problem addressed in this paper is that of enrichment of sensor descriptions and measurements in order to provide richer data, i.e., data containing more meaning. We propose a framework for automatizing the process of semantically enriching sensor descriptions and measurements with the purpose of improving the usability and accessibility of sensor data.
Keywords
Semantic Web, Linked Data, Sensor Web
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