Deriving business processes with service level agreements from early requirements

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1351-1363

  Frankova, Ganna ^a   Séguran, Magali ^b   Gilcher, Florian ^b   Trabelsi, Slim ^b   Dörflinger, Jörg ^c   Aiello, Marco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b SAP Research Security and Trust   (France)

^c SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Business process; Requirements engineering; Service level agreement

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; BUSINESS PROCESS; EARLY REQUIREMENTS; EARLY REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; EXECUTION TIME; NON FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; SECURE TROPOS; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENTS; SERVICE-BASED; TRUST AND SECURITY;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 79957972168     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2011.03.077     Document Type: Article

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