Report on the visit to Trinity College from 14th - 30th January 1998 W. Hasselbring, University of Dortmund Both groups at Trinity College and Dortmund University are interested in requirements engineering for hospital information systems and achieving requirements on such systems through federated software architectures (e.g., the Synapses project). The principle objective for the visit was to exchange research experience and ideas.

I gave two presentations:

16th January 1998 at Trinity College:

"Achieving Requirements on Software Systems"

Abstract:

To achieve the requirements on software systems, two basic questions arise:

- Are we building the system that the users need?

- Are we building the system in a way that the elicited requirements are achieved (in particular with respect to changing requirements)?

Our experience with the development of components for hospital information systems was discussed with respect to these issues.

27th January 1998 at St. James's Hospital in Dublin:

"Interdisciplinary requirements analysis for medical information systems"

During the visit I had several in-depth discussions on various concerns of requirements engineering and system architecture with researchers from different institutions in Dublin, in particular:

Trinity College (TCD):

Jane Grimson:
Distributed information systems, Medical Informatics

        Gaye Stephens:
                The application of use cases in Synapses
                Communication architecture in Synapses

Eoghan Felton:
System architecture and communication in Synapses

        Benjamin Jung:
                Medical Informatics
                Modeling of medical information (XML)

Vincent Wade:
Modeling distributed software systems with the UML

        Bing Wu:
                Modeling Requirements
                Migrating Legacy Systems

City University (DCU):

John Murphy:
Formal modeling of software architectures

Mark Roantree:
Distributed software architectures, CORBA

Institute of Technology (DIT):

William Grimson:
Federated architecture of Synapses

Damon Berry:
System architecture and communication in Synapses

        Richard Hayes:
                Requirements Engineering for
                Medical Information Systems

St. James's Hospital:

        Rory O'Moore:
                Requirements Engineering for
                Medical Information Systems

We arranged for a visit to the University of Dortmund by John Murphy and Mark Roantree in 1998. At least one joint paper will be written.

Last up-date: 30 July 1998