We present some functional and non-functional requirements and wishes for a web-based editor for formalized mathematics, in particular for use in the MathWiki project at RU Nijmegen [13]. We discuss possible implementation alternatives, and argue for a holistic design of the entire wiki with editor features in mind.

At the heart of a well-disciplined, systematic methodology that explicitly supports the use of COTS components is a clearly defined process for effectively using components that meet the needs of the system under development. In this paper, we present the CARE (COTS-Aware Requirements Engineering) Framework, a process-oriented framework which supports the iterative matching, ranking, and select...

Software architecture design has become an indispensable step in large software development. Because the involvement of non-functional requirements, this task is very complex and informal. This paper presents a survey on modern methodologies of software architecture design, i.e. the pattern-based design, multipleview model, evaluation and transformation based design, and architecture-based prod...

The design of accessible learning technologies for precollege engineering education is a multi-faceted problem that must take into account a multitude of physical, social, and environmental factors. Using literature reviews and assessment by a participant observer during an 18-hour intervention with a local middle school, we propose that the elicitation of non-functional requirements for precol...

This paper describes an evaluation of a characterisation framework to analyse mobile work scenarios in order to make corresponding software systems. The framework identifies complexity issues to be taken into account when implementing a system. The framework can also be used to elicit requirements from a scenario. Three research questions are investigated in this evaluation: 1) Can the framewor...

Considering profiles as functional variables, two control charts are proposed for their monitoring in phase II. Due to its conformity with the nature of real-world profiles, applying functional model leads to proposed control charts obtained through functional data analysis techniques with desired features. These include simplicity in calculation and possibility of using them for different prof...

This paper presents the analysis and key findings of a survey about dealing with non-functional requirements (NFRs) among architects. We find that, as long as the architect is aware of the importance of NFRs, they do not adversely affect project success, with one exception: highly business critical modifiability tends to be detrimental to project success, even when the architect is aware of it....

As more and more business-critical systems are based upon servicesdeployedoverflexible anddynamicplatforms likeService-Oriented Architecture (SOA), there is an increasing need for such services to meet their non-functional requirements like reliability, availability, security, etc. Toachieve suchobjectives, these servicesneed tobedesigned carefullymaking critical design decisions early in the d...

Traditional requirements engineering approaches suffer from the tyranny of the dominant decomposition, with functional requirements serving as the base decomposition and non-functional requirements cutting across them. In this paper, we propose a model that decomposes requirements in a uniform fashion regardless of their functional or non-functional nature. This makes it possible to project any...