INTEGRATING REQUIREMENTS & SPECIFICATIONS IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE CREATION PROCESS

Dionisis Adamopoulos

2004

Abstract

Existing telecommunications systems are gradually converging into a ubiquitous information infrastructure inside an open deregulated multi-provider telecommunications market place. Additionally, the demand for new value-generating telecommunications services is increasing and will increase rapidly in the years to come. Therefore, in order to derive a viable service paradigm, a service creation methodology is essential. After a brief presentation of such a proposed methodology, this paper focuses on its service analysis phase. More specifically, it determines the activities that take part in the service analysis phase and the artifacts that are produced, and examines important matters related to the role of use cases and the definition of conceptual models, interaction diagrams, operation contracts and state diagrams in the framework of tele-communications service engineering, exploiting the use of UML. Finally, alternative and complementary approaches for service analysis are highlighted and a validation attempt is briefly outlined.

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Adamopoulos D. (2004). INTEGRATING REQUIREMENTS & SPECIFICATIONS IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE CREATION PROCESS . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE, ISBN 972-8865-15-5, pages 136-143. DOI: 10.5220/0001393701360143


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@conference{icete04,
author={Dionisis Adamopoulos},
title={INTEGRATING REQUIREMENTS & SPECIFICATIONS IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE CREATION PROCESS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,},
year={2004},
pages={136-143},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001393701360143},
isbn={972-8865-15-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks - Volume 1: ICETE,
TI - INTEGRATING REQUIREMENTS & SPECIFICATIONS IN THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE CREATION PROCESS
SN - 972-8865-15-5
AU - Adamopoulos D.
PY - 2004
SP - 136
EP - 143
DO - 10.5220/0001393701360143