In spite of the generated benefits, Object-Oriented (OO) paradigm seems reaching its limits, regarding complexity reduction of current systems. In this context, the Aspect Oriented (AO) comes up as an alternative to reduce software development complexity while keeping OO advantages. Needs for investigating methodologies of AO Software Development have emerged a long with AO. As an example, Earl...

We propose an approach for capturing evolving requirements for work support systems that are organically created by co-workers in self-organized, networked organizations. It is in the nature of such organisations that comprehensive design-time capturing of the volatile taskrelated functional requirements is not possible. Therefore, we advocate a combination of two types of requirements: i. stab...

Non-functional requirements (NFRs) are crucial software requirements that have be specified early in the software development process while eliciting the functional software requirements (FRs) [1,2]. NFRs can be viewed as additional constraints that have to be satisfied by the functional requirements. The non-satisfaction of NFRs is one of the main reasons for the failure of software projects. ...

To ensure legal compliance, requirements engineers need tools to validate existing requirements for compliance with relevant law. This paper proposes an approach to aid in validating software requirements for legal compliance. The approach employs a production rule model for the United States Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that can be queried by requirements enginee...

Requirements Engineering is now widely recognised as a critical activity in the context of information system (IS) development. In this paper, we present a taxonomy of different kinds of knowledge elicited during requirements engineering. In particular, we introduce a formal agent-oriented language aimed at the modelling of functional requirements. Finally, we suggest a methodology for the requ...

Non-functional Requirements (NFRs) such as software quality attributes, software design constraints and software interface requirements hold crucial information about the constraints on the software system under development and its behavior. NFRs are subjective in nature and have a broad impact on the system as a whole. Being distinct from Functional Requirements (FR), NFRs are dealt with speci...

Security breaches are largely caused by the vulnerable software. Since individuals and organizations mostly depend on softwares, it is important to produce in secured manner. The first step towards producing secured software is through gathering security requirements. This paper describes Software Security Requirements Gathering Instrument (SSRGI) that helps gather security requirements from th...

Traditionally, software requirements consist of a list of desirable functions to be accommodated by the proposed software system. Through goal-oriented requirements engineering, stakeholder goals are analyzed into goal models that concisely define a space of alternative sets of functional requirements. We adopt this framework and propose a systematic generation of generic (high-variability) sof...

In this paper, we discuss metadata schemes applied in Chinese digital library projects, as well as their common methodology, elements and application problems. Problems and issues of these metadata schemes are analyzed. Based on this analysis, we put forward a formal ontology for Chinese digital library: the ontology concepts description starts from IFLA’s proposal FRBR (Functional Requirements...