TY - GEN
T1 - A modelling language for transparency requirements in business information systems
AU - Hosseini, Mahmood
AU - Shahri, Alimohammad
AU - Phalp, Keith
AU - Ali, Raian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Transparency is a requirement of businesses and their information systems. It is typically linked to positive ethical and economic attributes, such as trust and accountability. Despite its importance, transparency is often studied as a secondary concept and viewed through the lenses of adjacent concepts such as security, privacy and regulatory requirements. This has led to a reduced ability to manage transparency and deal with its peculiarities as a first-class requirement. Ad-hoc introduction of transparency may have adverse effects, such as information overload and reduced collaboration. We propose a modelling language for capturing and analysing transparency requirements amongst stakeholders in a business information system. Our language is based on four reference models which are, in turn, based on our extensive multi-disciplinary analysis of the literature on transparency. As a proof of concept, we apply our modelling language and the analysis enabled by it on a case study of marking exam papers.
AB - Transparency is a requirement of businesses and their information systems. It is typically linked to positive ethical and economic attributes, such as trust and accountability. Despite its importance, transparency is often studied as a secondary concept and viewed through the lenses of adjacent concepts such as security, privacy and regulatory requirements. This has led to a reduced ability to manage transparency and deal with its peculiarities as a first-class requirement. Ad-hoc introduction of transparency may have adverse effects, such as information overload and reduced collaboration. We propose a modelling language for capturing and analysing transparency requirements amongst stakeholders in a business information system. Our language is based on four reference models which are, in turn, based on our extensive multi-disciplinary analysis of the literature on transparency. As a proof of concept, we apply our modelling language and the analysis enabled by it on a case study of marking exam papers.
KW - TranspLan modelling language
KW - Transparency analysis
KW - Transparency engineering
KW - Transparency requirements
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84976610185&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-39696-5_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-39696-5_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84976610185
SN - 9783319396958
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 239
EP - 254
BT - Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 28th International Conference, CAiSE 2016, Proceedings
A2 - Nurcan, Selmin
A2 - Soffer, Pnina
A2 - Bajec, Marko
A2 - Eder, Johann
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 28th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2016
Y2 - 13 June 2016 through 17 June 2016
ER -