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Speakers: Sergio España and Arturo González

Description:
The tutorial presents the principles, concepts and common practices of model-driven development (MDD), with a special focus on model-driven requirements engineering and business process modelling. Although the tutorial will introduce participants to a cutting-edge technology, the main focus is put on methodological guidelines: it intends to provide insights on the topic that are useful to both researchers (so they can apply them in their proposals) and practitioners (so they are aware of what is coming and can anticipate the evolution of RE methods and CASE tools).

Short bio:
Arturo González, PhD, is full professor and at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV, Spain) with a large experience in complex software development projects as requirements engineer and consultant. Sergio España, PhD, is a full researcher at the Research Center on Software Production Methods  - ProS (UPV), author in top RE and conceptual modelling conferences. They are co-authors of Communication Analysis, an information systems RE method that can be applied stand-alone or within an MDD framework.

Speaker: Roel Wieringa

Description:
In information systems, as in all other fields of engineering science, we need to validate new technology before it is transferred to practice. This requires empirical research of many different kinds, such as lab experiments, modeling and simulation, and field research. In this tutorial the different methods available to the information systems researcher for validating new technology are reviewed, with examples from research practice.

Short bio:
Roel Wieringa (http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~roelw) is head of the Computer Science Department at the University of Twente, the Netherlands and of the Information Systenms research group in that Department. He teaches courses about, and does research in, requirements engineering and research methodology.

Speaker: Roel Wieringa

Description:
To validate new techniques for information systems, the researcher eventually has to try out his or her method or technique in practice. Technical action research (TAR) is a research method where the researcher uses his or her newly designed method or technique to help a client to achieve their goals better. The aim of this tutorial is to teach how to set up and reason about a TAR project in a methodologically sound way, using examples from the literature and from the audience.

Short bio:
See tutorial #2

Speakers: Martin Mahaux, Patrick Heymans

Description:
Through actually playing improvisational theatre games in groups, participants will be given the chance to feel what it takes to innovate in teams, and discover a team-building and training technique that focuses on these neglected but crucial aspects of systems development. It's definitely participative, fun, refreshing, and different from any tutorial you have ever been attending: don't expect to see any slide!

Short bio:
Martin is currently doing a PhD thesis at the University of Namur on the topic of collaboration and creativity. He started his career as an IT consultant, where he enjoyed various positions in the IS development life cycle. He is the main developer of the improv based training technique that is the subject of this mini-tutorial. Martin published about it during his free time in IEEE Software and RE conference. He also works on methods for assessing sustainability of socio-technical systems.  Dr. Patrick Heymans is full professor of IS at University of Namur, and visiting researcher at INRIA Lille. He is founding member and co-director of the PReCISE research centre (50 researchers) where he leads the requirements engineering and software product line efforts. He has supervised 9 PhD theses and authored 85 peer-reviewed papers. He is a regular referee for top IS journals and conferences, and associate editor of IEEE TSE. Patrick regularly acts as an advisor and trainer for IT companies.

Speaker: Felix B. Tan

Description:
This tutorial introduces participants to the Repertory Grid, a structured interview technique that facilitates the elicitation of personal constructs that individuals use to understand IT and its role in organisations. The technique will be illustrated using examples from Information Systems research. At the end of the tutorial, participants will demonstrate a basic understanding of the RepGrid; have a clear understanding of the issues to be considered when using the RepGrid; and apply the RepGrid in their own research.

Short bio:
Dr. Felix B Tan is Professor of Information Systems at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Information Management. Dr. Tan has published in leading Information Systems journals using the RepGrid technique on topics including skill archetypes of successful IT project managers, website usability, students’ use of CMC media in learning and aligning business-IT thinking.

Conference Registration fee includes the admission to all these tutorials.