Special Issue on
SCENARIO MANAGEMENT
Guest Editors:
Matthias Jarke, RWTH Aachen (Germany)
Reino Kurki-Suonio, Tampere University of Technology (Finland)
Aims and Scope
A scenario can be defined as a description of a possible set
of events that might reasonably take place.
The purpose of scenarios is to stimulate thinking about possible
occurences, assumptions relating these occurences, possible
opportunities and risks, and courses of action. Recent
surveys of scenario research and practice undertaken by
the European CREWS project show the enormous variety,
but also the fragmentation of the field.
The special issue will draw together
contributions to the use and management of scenarios
in software and systems engineering. For example, HCI researchers
use scenarios to enhance user-designer communications and managers
to explore alternative futures and the impact of systems.
Software engineers see scenarios as a promising means to discover
user needs that are not obvious in analysis situations,
to better describe the use of systems in work processes, and
to systematically explore normal-case and exceptional
behavior of a system and its environment.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
- system-internal scenarios/animations, system interaction
scenarios and use cases, organizational context scenarios
- mock-ups, storyboards, and animations that have moved
beyond their origins in HCI into general systems practice
- "thick" multimedia descriptions as a shared grounding of an
existing, planned, or even virtual reality
- systematically planned experiments with normal and exceptional
behavior of a system and its environment
- management of scenarios as reusable artifacts in large
long-term projects
- case studies and surveys concerning the usage patterns
and applicability of scenarios in different application domains
- technical support for scenario usage and management
- integration of scenario techniques with other SE methods
- embedding of scenario usage in the software lifecycle,
relationships with design prototypes.
Submissions
To discuss potential submissions, please contact either of
the guest editors.
Contributions to the special issue must follow the IEEE-TSE
guidelines for authors. They should be sent directly
to Matthias Jarke, to reach him no later than January 8, 1998.
An email abstract should be sent to Matthias Jarke by
December 20, 1997.
Submitted papers must not have been published before
and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Important dates
email submission of abstracts: December 20, 1997
full paper submissions (6 copies): January 8, 1998
notification of acceptance/revision: April 1, 1998
final revised version of papers: June 1, 1998
expected publication: fall 1998
Guest Editors
Matthias Jarke
Informatik V, RWTH Aachen
Ahornstr. 55
52072 Aachen, Germany
phone: +49 241 80 21 501
fax: +49 241 8888 321
email: jarke@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Reino Kurki-Suonio
Tampere University of Technology
P.O. Box 553
FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland
phone: +358 3 365 2699
fax: +358 3 365 2913
email: rks@cs.tut.fi
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