Publications and Adoption

Publications

S. Supakkul and L. Chung, “The RE-Tools: A multi-notational requirements modeling toolkit,” In Proc. Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), 2012 20th IEEE International (pp. 333-334). IEEE [paper].
S. Supakkul, L. Chung, R. J. Macasaet, M. Noguera, M. L. Rodrıguez, and J. L. Garrido, “Modeling and Tracing Stakeholders’ Goals across Notations using RE-Tools,” In Proc. 6th i* Workshop (iStar 2013), http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~istar13/ [paper]

Adoption

The RE-Tools toolkit has been used in teaching at University of Trento, Italy, and University of Texas-Dallas, USA, and in research in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Morocco, Spain, UK, and the US.

It has been downloaded over 3,500 times from about 90 countries. The current download stats are available here.

The following is a list of some publications from research using the RE-Tools. Please share with us how you use the toolkit, and any comments or suggestions you may have for improvement. You may email to <ssupakkul at ieee dot org>.

S. De, M. S. Barik and I. Banerjee. "Goal Based Threat Modeling for Peer-to-Peer Cloud." Procedia Computer Science 89 (2016): 64-72. [Paper]
Y. Wang, L. Zhao, X. Wang, X. Yang and S. Supakkul, “PLANT: A pattern language for transforming scenarios into requirements models,” In International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 71(11), 1026-1043. [paper]
J. Sun, P. Loucopoulos, and L. Zhao, “Representing and Elaborating Quality Requirements: The QRA Approach, “ In Conceptual Modeling, pp. 446-453, Springer Berlin Heidelberg. [paper]
R. J. Macasaet, M. Noguera, M. L. Rodríguez, J. L. Garrido, S. Supakkul and L. Chung, “A requirements-based approach for representing micro-business patterns,” In Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 2013 IEEE Seventh International Conference on (pp. 1-12). IEEE. [paper]
I. Hilal, N. Afifi, R. F. Hilali and M. Ouzzif, “Toward a New Approach for Modeling Dependability of Data Warehouse System,” arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.1181. [paper]
H. Wang, R. Mehta, L. Chung, S. Supakkul and L. Huang, “Rule-based context-aware adaptation: a goal-oriented approach,” International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, 8(3), 279-299. [paper]
L. Chung, T. Hill, O. Legunsen, Z. Sun, A. Dsouza and S. Supakkul, “A goal-oriented simulation approach for obtaining good private cloud-based system architectures,” Journal of Systems and Software, 2012. [paper]
A. Affleck and A. Krishna, “Supporting quantitative reasoning of non-functional requirements: A process-oriented approach,” In Software and System Process (ICSSP), 2012 International Conference on (pp. 88-92). IEEE. [paper]
Y. Ledru, J. Richier, A. Idani and M. Labiadh, “From KAOS to RBAC: A Case Study in Designing Access Control Rules from a Requirements Analysis,” In Network and Information Systems Security (SAR-SSI), 2011 Conference on (pp. 1-8). IEEE. [paper]
Denise Lazzeri Gastaldo Bombonatti, “PARNAFOA: An Aspect-Oriented Non-Functional Requirements Analysis Process,” PhD Dissertation, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, 2010.