Motivation
Activities associated with the derivation and management
of software-related design requirements are increasingly important to a
variety of organizations, as software is becoming central to more
products, services, and organizing efforts.
Themes associated with design requirments are also
addressed in a variety of academic disciplines, including
human-computer interaction, software engineering, computer science, and
information systems research.
The variety of practitioners and academic disciplines,
however, address requirements issues in disparate ways, and without
dialog and mutual learning among the disciplines, and often between
practitioners and academics.
Dialog
Through the Design Requirements Workshop we expect to
formulate a research vision for requirements identification, capture,
verification, and management that addresses the realities of designing
software intensive systems in the 21st century.
The following issues are among those that will be
addressed through the workshop:
1. What is the changing scope of requirements for
different types of software-intensive systems in the next decade and
how does it influence downstream activity?
2. How can we apply and expand existing design
principles like abstraction, viewpoints, principles of system
composition, and behavior tracking to analyze and design new
software-intesive systems while capturing their versatile and
heterogeneous requirements?
3. How can we integrate new areas of requirements focus
including broadened concern for usability, security, business value, or
integration across the software life-cycle?
To this end we seek to: (a) bring forward the challenges
faced by designers and stakeholders in specifying requirements for high
impact and sustainable systems, and (b) outline design approaches from
a multi-disciplinary perspective. Thus we plan to identify and
appropriate emerging principles of design science - especially those
related to complex, heterogeneous, and rapidly-changing environments.
NSF Science of Design Program
The research effort and corresponding workshop are
undertaken through the support of the National Science Foundation as
part of its Science of Design Program. The Science of Design
initiative focuses on the design of software-intensive systems, and how
conteporary systems design can be informed by ideas from other design
fields.
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