Aim
This proposal is aimed at advancing Community Building Activities (CBA)
as mentioned in the
Science of Design (SoD) call 05-620. We aim for the development of a
robust community of
design researchers around requirements capture and management with
heterogeneous
backgrounds. The objective of this workshop program is to “bring new
paradigms, concepts,
approaches, models, and theories into the development of a strong
intellectual foundation for
software design” (Call for SoD) as it relates to the process of
capturing and managing
requirements. The proposal covers funding for two workshops to be held
in successive years, in 2007 and 2008, in the USA and Europe
respectively. This proposal applies for funding for the
2007 workshop only.
The theme of these workshops is developing principles, theoretical
foundations and practical
guidance for identifying, soliciting, deriving and managing design
requirements for software
intensive systems. Management and derivation of design requirements are
themes common to
many separate research and design science communities including:
- - design method and software architecture research
- - human computer interaction
- - formal specification methods and verification
principles
- - information system researchers involved with
business models and
architectures
- - business value and organizational impact, and
- - communities dealing with industrial design,
architecture and media
design
Currently, principles and approaches that help derive and manage design
requirements are
addressed in disparate ways and without much learning, cognizance and
dialogue across many of these communities. Yet, such dialogue is
urgently needed to address the new challenges faced with the design of
software intensive systems, which are shared uniformly within these
communities. Modern software design involves increasingly aspects of
industrial design (e.g.
pervasive applications), media design (e-commerce and media
applications), human computer
interaction (new modalities of interaction), business architectures and
modularity principles
adopted from industrial economics (e.g. open business platforms), just
to name a few grand
challenges.
To download a PDF version of the NSF proposal,
click
here.
