Eduardo B. Fernandez, Hironori Washizaki and Nobukazu Yoshioka, “Using Security Patterns to Develop Secure Systems – Ten years later,” International Journal of Systems and Software Security and Protection (IJSSSP), Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1-7, IGI Global, 2019.

Yohei Aoki, Chimaki Shimura, Hironori Washizaki, Takanobu Kobori, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Katsutoshi Shintani, and Takuto Nonomura, “Horizontal Relation Identification Method to Handle Misalignment of Goals and Strategies Across Organizational Units,” IEEE Access, pp. 1-11, 2019. (to appear)(SCIE indexed)

GQM+Strategies® aligns business goals and strategies to help organizations achieve business objectives. Using the initial set of goals and strategies, GQM+Strategies creates a grid, through which goals and strategies are linked throughout an organization by iteratively determining lower-level goals and strategies. GQM+Strategies creates consistency within a vertical refinement tree, but cannot handle horizontal relationships from different branches. Hence, horizontal relationships lead to problems such as redundant investments, inefficient resource utilization, and failure. Horizontal Relation Identification Method (HoRIM) is proposed to handle horizontal relationships. HoRIM is a grid modification approach that identifies differences between the initial GQM+Strategies grid and a model by Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM). Herein we experimentally demonstrate that HoRIM finds about 1.5 times more horizontal relationships than an ad hoc review. Additionally, we show its practicality via a case study involving a real-world application.

SYSTEM INFORMATION Kobayashi-san 小林 浩 (Hiroshi Kobayashi) invited Michael West and Jeff Dalton to hold various seminars on CMMI and Agile Performance Holarchy (APH). SmartSE jointly held a seminar on Organizational Capability in Agile Era.

システム情報ほかと連携してスマートエスイーセミナー「アジャイル時代の組織ケーパビリティ向上」を2019年6月6日に開催し、170名程度の多くの参加をいただきました。有難うございました。鷲崎教授からはアジャイル品質パターン Quality Assurance to Agile Quality (QA2AQ)について講演。

As of June 5th 2019, Stéphane Duguay from Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR) is currently staying at Tokyo, Waseda University to investigate various Programming teaching courses and conduct joint research with our team. Welcome!

Ryo Ishizuka, Naohiko Tsuda, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Shunsuke Sugimura and Yuichiro Yauda, “Effects of software modifications and development after an organizational change on software metrics value,” IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Letter, pp.1-3, 2019. (SCIE indexed)

Deterioration of software quality developed by multiple organizations has become a serious problem. To predict software degradation after an organizational change, this paper investigates the influence of quality deterioration on software metrics by analyzing three software projects. To detect factors indicating a low evolvability, we focus on the relationships between the change in software metric values and refactoring tendencies. Refactoring after an organization change impacts the quality.

Yuki Noyori, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Keishi Ooshima, Hideyuki Kanuka, Shuhei Nojiri and Ryosuke Tsuchiya, “What are good discussions within bug report comments for shortening bug fixing time?” The 19th IEEE International Conference on. Software Quality, Reliability & Security, Short Paper, July 22 – 26, 2019. Sofia, Bulgaria. (CORE Rank B)

ISO/IEC/JTC1 SC7/WG20 (Convenor: Prof. Washizaki) had a very productive Plenary Meeting 219 at Espoo, Finland. We are standardizing BOK, Skill, Competency and Certification Schemes in Systems and Software Engineering. Next interim will be from Nov 11 to 13 (or 15) at Delft, Netherlands. See you all!

情報通信技術委員会（TTC）2019年度「IoT/BD/AI時代に向けたデジュール及びフォーラム標準に関する標準化動向調査」に、IoTおよび機械学習を中心とした超スマート社会基盤における広義の信頼性技術の標準・動向調査（代表: 鷲崎、分担: 齋藤）採択。IEEE会議を調査し、まとめを公開いたします。

Toshinori Takai, Katsutoshi Shintani, Hideki Andoh and Hironori Washizaki, “A case study of applying GQM+Strategies with SysML for IoT application system development,” 4th International Conference on Enterprise Architecture and Information Systems (EAIS 2019) as a part of 8th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI AAI 2019), regular paper, July 7–12, 2019, Toyama, Japan

Norifumi Nomura, Katsutoshi Shintani and Hironori Washizaki, Katsutoshi Shintani and Natsuki Mimura, “Implementation and evaluation of GQM+Strategies for Management By Objectives (MBO),” 4th International Conference on Enterprise Architecture and Information Systems (EAIS 2019) as a part of 8th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI AAI 2019), short paper, July 7–12, 2019, Toyama, Japan