Goal-oriented Contextual Requirements Analysis in the Presence of Digital Stakeholders

Deriving from diverse and vastly growing sources, digital data is emerging as the essential resource to organizations, enabling them to by enlarging their body of knowledge advance in highly demanding business situations and markets. The means enabling holistic reasoning and modeling business constellations including varieties of digital sources of data, and the ranges of different contexts covering those data are therefore a challenge in the modelling community. In this paper, we analyze the use of the core i* language for supporting modeling of context-dependent business environments where the contexts’ data is provided by digital actors. We have defined the mappings from the main concepts for the domain of the investigation (such as digital sources, context and capability) to the elements of the i* 2.0. We illustrated our proposal by applying it on the service concerning roads maintenance