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The i* Framework for Goal-Oriented Modeling

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i* is a widespread framework in the software engineering field that supports goal-oriented modeling of socio-technical systems and organizations. At its heart lies a language offering concepts such as actor, dependency, goal and decomposition. i* models resemble a network of interconnected, autonomous, collaborative and dependable strategic actors. Around this language, several analysis techniques have emerged, e.g., goal satisfaction analysis and metrics computation. In this work, we present a consolidated version of the i* language based on the most adopted versions of the language. We define the main constructs of the language and we articulate them in the form of a metamodel. Then, we implement this version and a concrete technique, goal satisfaction analysis based on goal propagation, using ADOxx. Throughout the chapter, we used an example based on open source software adoption to illustrate the concepts and test the implementation.

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This work was partially funded by the Spanish funded project EOSSAC (TIN2013-44641-P) and the RISCOSS project, funded by the EC 7th Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013, agreement number 318249.

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    Xavier Franch, Lidia López & Daniel Colomer

  2. Universidad de la Frontera, 4780000, Temuco, Chile

    Carlos Cares

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Franch, X., López, L., Cares, C., Colomer, D. (2016). The i* Framework for Goal-Oriented Modeling. In: Karagiannis, D., Mayr, H., Mylopoulos, J. (eds) Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39417-6_22

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