TY - GEN
T1 - Achieving, satisficing, and excelling
AU - Jureta, Ivan J.
AU - Faulkner, Stéphane
AU - Schobbens, Pierre Yves
PY - 2007/12/1
Y1 - 2007/12/1
N2 - Definitions of the concepts derived from the goal concept (including functional and nonfunctional goal, hardgoal, and softgoal) used in requirements engineering are discussed, and precise (and, when appropriate, mathematical) definitions are suggested. The concept of satisficing, associated to softgoals is revisited. A softgoal is satisficed when thresholds of some precise criteria are reached. Satisficing does not cover situations in which continual improvement of thresholds is expected. The notion of excelling is suggested to cover such cases, along with the concept of disposition to represent and reason about excelling.
AB - Definitions of the concepts derived from the goal concept (including functional and nonfunctional goal, hardgoal, and softgoal) used in requirements engineering are discussed, and precise (and, when appropriate, mathematical) definitions are suggested. The concept of satisficing, associated to softgoals is revisited. A softgoal is satisficed when thresholds of some precise criteria are reached. Satisficing does not cover situations in which continual improvement of thresholds is expected. The notion of excelling is suggested to cover such cases, along with the concept of disposition to represent and reason about excelling.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:38349145955
SN - 9783540762911
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 286
EP - 295
BT - Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Foundations and Applications - ER 2007 Workshops CMLSA, FP-UML, ONISW, QoIS, RIGiM, SeCoGIS, Proceedings
T2 - 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2007
Y2 - 5 November 2007 through 9 November 2007
ER -