Eric Yu

Professor Yu’s research interests lie in the areas of information systems analysis and design, software requirements engineering, knowledge management, and in particular the modelling of technology systems and their social contexts. He has authored or co-authored more than 200 research papers and several books. His article “Towards Modelling and Reasoning Support for Early-Phase Requirements Engineering” in Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE Int. Symposium on Requirements Engineering (1997) received the Most Influential Paper Award at the 2007 Requirements Engineering Conference.

His doctoral dissertation, which introduced the ‘i*’ framework for modeling and analyzing strategic actor relationships was published in Social Modeling for Requirements Engineering (MIT Press, 2011). That volume includes eighteen chapters authored by researchers from around the world who have applied, adapted, or extended the i* framework in various ways, and for diverse application contexts, ranging from business processes to knowledge management to air traffic control and from information security to software development. The i* framework is the basis for GRL, the Goal-oriented Requirements Language, which together with the scenario-modeling notation UCM, constitute the international standard ITU-T Z.151.

Professor Yu’s research is funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada.

Alexei Lapouchnian, Eric Yu, Stephanie Deng. “Responding to Ongoing Change: Challenges for Information Systems Modeling.” Int. J. Information System Modeling and Design 5.4 (2014) 48-70.

Jennifer Horkoff, Daniele Barone, Lei Jiang, Eric Yu, Daniel Amyot, Alex Borgida, John Mylopoulos. “Strategic Business Modeling: Representation and Reasoning.” Software and Systems Modeling 13.3 (2014): 1015-1041. doi: 10.1007/s10270-012-0290-8

Jennifer Horkoff, Eric Yu. “Comparison and Evaluation of Goal-Oriented Satisfaction Analysis Techniques.” Requirements Engineering 18.3 (2013): 199-222. doi: 10.1007/s00766-011-0143-y 

Lysanne Lessard, Eric Yu. “Service Systems Design: An Intentional Agent Perspective.” Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and the Service Industries 23.1 (2013): 68-75. doi: 10.1002/hfm.20513

Golnaz Elahi, Eric Yu. “Comparing Alternatives for Analyzing Requirements Trade-offs in the Absence of Numerical Data.” Information and Software Technology 54.6 (2012): 517-530. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2011.10.007

Reza Samavi, Eric Yu, and Thodoros Topaloglou. “Strategic Reasoning about Business Models: A Conceptual Modeling Approach.” Information Systems and e-Business Management, Special Issue on Design and Management of Business Models and Processes in Services Science, 2008.

Jaap Gordijn, Eric Yu, and Bas van der Raadt. “e-Service Design Using i* and e3value Modeling.” IEEE Software. 23.3 (2006): 26-33.

43. Yu. “Agent Orientation as a Modelling Paradigm.” Wirtschaftinformatik 43.2 (2001): 123-132.
44. Gross and E. Yu. “From Non-Functional Requirements to Design through Patterns.” Requirements Engineering (2001): 6:18-36.

Alexei Lapouchnian, Eric Yu, Stephanie Deng. “Responding to Ongoing Change: Challenges for Information Systems Modeling.” Int. J. Information System Modeling and Design 5.4 (2014) 48-70.

Jennifer Horkoff, Daniele Barone, Lei Jiang, Eric Yu, Daniel Amyot, Alex Borgida, John Mylopoulos. “Strategic Business Modeling: Representation and Reasoning.” Software and Systems Modeling 13.3 (2014): 1015-1041. doi: 10.1007/s10270-012-0290-8

Jennifer Horkoff, Eric Yu. “Comparison and Evaluation of Goal-Oriented Satisfaction Analysis Techniques.” Requirements Engineering 18.3 (2013): 199-222. doi: 10.1007/s00766-011-0143-y

Lysanne Lessard, Eric Yu. “Service Systems Design: An Intentional Agent Perspective.” Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing and the Service Industries 23.1 (2013): 68-75. doi: 10.1002/hfm.20513

Golnaz Elahi, Eric Yu. “Comparing Alternatives for Analyzing Requirements Trade-offs in the Absence of Numerical Data.” Information and Software Technology 54.6 (2012): 517-530. doi: 10.1016/j.infsof.2011.10.007

Reza Samavi, Eric Yu, and Thodoros Topaloglou. “Strategic Reasoning about Business Models: A Conceptual Modeling Approach.” Information Systems and e-Business Management, Special Issue on Design and Management of Business Models and Processes in Services Science, 2008.

Jaap Gordijn, Eric Yu, and Bas van der Raadt. “e-Service Design Using i* and e3value Modeling.” IEEE Software. 23.3 (2006): 26-33.

Yu. “Agent Orientation as a Modelling Paradigm.” Wirtschaftinformatik 43.2 (2001): 123-132.

Gross and E. Yu. “From Non-Functional Requirements to Design through Patterns.” Requirements Engineering (2001): 6:18-36.

Yu, P. Giorgini, N. Maiden, J. Mylopoulos, eds. Social Modeling for Requirements Engineering. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.

T. Borgida, V. Chaudhri, P. Giorgini, E. S. Yu, eds. Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications – Essays in Honor of John Mylopoulos. Springer: Festschrift, 2009.

L. Chung, B. Nixon, E. Yu and J. Mylopoulos. Non-Functional Requirements in Software Engineering. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

Yu, P. Giorgini, N. Maiden, and J. Mylopoulos. “Social Modeling for Requirements Engineering: An Introduction.” In Social Modeling for Requirements Engineering, E. Yu, P. Giorgini, N. Maiden, J. Mylopoulos, eds. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011: 3-10.

Eric Yu. “Social Modeling and i*.” In Conceptual Modeling: Foundations and Applications – Essays in Honor of John Mylopoulos. A. T. Borgida, V. Chaudhri, P. Giorgini, E. S. Yu, eds. Berlin: Springer, 2009: 99-121.

Yu. “Agent-Oriented Modelling: Software Versus the World.” In Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II., M.J. Wooldridge, G. Weiss, and P. Ciancarini, eds. Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 2222. Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002: 206-225.

Yu and L. Liu. “Modelling Trust for Systems Design Using the i* Strategic Actors Framework”. In Trust in Cyber-Societies, R. Falcone, M. Singh, and Y-H. Tan, eds. New York: Springer Verlag, 2001: 175-194.

Soroosh Nalchigar, Eric Yu, and Rajgopal Ramani. “A Conceptual Modeling Framework for Business Analytics.” Paper presented at Conceptual Modeling (ER), Gifu, Japan, 2016. Berlin, New York: Springer, LNCS.

Zia Babar, Alexei Lapouchnian, Eric Yu. “Modeling DevOps Deployment Choices Using Process Architecture Design Dimensions.” Paper presented at the IFIP Working Conf. on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling (PoEM), Valencia, Spain, 2015. Springer: LNBIP, vol. 235: 322-337.

Alexei Lapouchnian, Eric Yu, Arnon Sturm. “Design Dimensions for Business Process Architecture”. Paper presented at the 34^th Int. Conf. Conceptual Modeling, (ER) Stockholm, Sweden, 2015. Berlin: Springer, LNCS vol. 9381: 276-284.

Mohammad Hossein Danesh, Pericles Loucopoulos, Eric Yu. “Dynamic capabilities for Sustainable Enterprise IT –a Modeling Framework.” Paper presented at the 34^th Int. Conf. Conceptual Modeling (ER,) Stockholm, Sweden, 2015. LNCS vol. 9381, Springer. 358-366.

Mahsa Sadi, Eric Yu. “Designing Software Ecosystems: How Can Modeling Techniques Help?” Paper presented at the Working Conf. on Exploring Modelling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD), at CAiSE 2015, Stockholm, Sweden. LNBIP vol. 214, Springer, 2015. 360-375.

Arnon Sturm, Daniel Gross, Jian Wang, Soroosh Nalchigar, Eric Yu. “Mapping and Usage of Know-How Contributions”, Paper presented at Information Systems Engineering in Complex Environments – CAiSE Forum 2014, Selected Extended Papers. June 16-20, 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece. Berlin: Springer, LNBIP, vol. 204: 102-115.

Eric Yu, Alexei Lapouchnian. “Architecting the Enterprise to Leverage a Confluence of Emerging Technologies.” Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research, Ontario, Canada, November 18-20, 2013. Riverton, NJ: IBM Corp., 2013: 408-414.

Eric Yu, Stephanie Deng, Divyajyoti Sasmal. “Enterprise Architecture for the Adaptive Enterprise – A Vision Paper.”  Paper presented at Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR), Barcelona, Spain, October 23-24, 2012. New York, Berlin: Springer, 2012, LNBIP  Vol. 131: 146-161.

Eric Yu, Stephanie Deng. “Understanding Software Ecosystems: A Strategic Modeling Approach.”  Paper presented at Third International Workshop on Software Ecosystems (IWSECO’11). June 7 2011, Brussels, Belgium. New York: ACM.

Hesam Chiniforooshan, Eric Yu, Maria C. Annosi. “Strategically Balanced Process Adoption.”  Paper presented at International Conference on Software and Systems Process (ICSSP’11), Honolulu, HI, USA”, May 2011. New York: ACM Press, 169-178.

Daniele Barone, Eric Yu, Jihyun Won, Lei Jiang, and John Mylopoulos. Enterprise Modeling for Business Intelligence.” Paper presented at the 3rd IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modelling (PoEM2010), Delft, The Netherlands, November 2010. Berlin: Springer, LNBIP vol. 68: 31-45.

Yu and J. Mylopoulos. “Understanding ‘Why’ in Software Process Modelling, Analysis, and Design.” Proc. 16th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’94), Sorrento, Italy, May 1994. New York: IEEE ACM, 159-168.

International Standards

ITU-T Z.150 User Requirements Notation (URN) – Language requirements and framework

ITU-T Z.151 User Requirements Notation (URN)

PhD

Lysanne Lessard. “Co-Creating Value in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: an Empirically-Grounded Design Framework and A Modeling Technique.”

Daniel Gross. “Software Architecture Decision-Making in Organizational Settings.”

PhD Computer Science

Jennifer Horkoff. “Iterative, Interactive Analysis of Agent-Goal Models for Early Requirements Engineering.”

Hesam Chiniforooshan. “Transitioning to Agile: A Framework for Pre-Adoption Analysis Using Empirical Knowledge and Strategic Modeling.”

Golnaz Elahi. “Making Trade-Offs Among Security and Other Requirements During System Design.”

Masters

MI

Sadra Abrishamkar. “Goal-Oriented Know-How Mapping.”

Nikoo Nasser. “Goal-Oriented Structuring of a Knowledge Domain.”

Andrew Hilts. “A Knowledge Structuring Framework to Support the Design of Social Media For Online Deliberation.”

Xiaoxue Deng. “Intentional Modeling for Enterprise Architecture: Managing Architectural Knowledge to Support Change.”

Chris Cocca. “Towards Improved Visual Support for i* Modeling.”

Imran Kabir. “Representation and Reorganization of Web Accessibility Guidelines Using Goal Graphs and Design Patterns.”

MSc CS

Reza Manbachi. “A Goal-Oriented Intentional Approach to Role-Based Access Control.”

Bowen Hui. “Developing and Evaluating a Document Visualization System for Information Management.”

Jane You. “Using Meta-Schema Driven Views for Scaling i* Models.”

Jennifer Horkoff. “Using i* Models for Evaluation.”

Amy Lo. “From Business Models to Web Services Design: A Reference Model Approach.”

Ali Akhavan. “Interactive Reasoning for Intentional Requirements Engineering.”

Alireza Moayerzadeh. “A Goal Oriented Representation of Service-Oriented Software Design Principles.”

Golnaz Elahi. “Modeling and Analyzing Security Trade-offs: A Goal Oriented Approach With Knowledge Support.”

M.Eng.

Reza Samavi. “Strategic Modeling and Analysis of Business Models of Disruptive Technologies.”

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Jordi Cabot. “Model-Driven Development With Goal And Agent-Oriented Modeling.”

Markus Strohmaier. “Agility in Information Systems and Knowledge Management.”

Luiz Marcio Cysneiros. “Agent-Oriented Information Systems.”

Zhiming Cai. “Goal and Scenario Modeling for Performance Requirements.”

Lin Liu. “Agent-Oriented Requirements Engineering.”

CCT 376           Introduction to Information Modeling

INF1341H        System Analysis and Process Innovation INF1342H        Systems Requirements and Architectural Design INF2177H        Information Management and Systems INF2183H        Knowledge Management and Systems