One of the challenges of requirements engineers is to understand domain issues and elicit requirements effectively. One of the possible strategies is to perform a manual inspection of similar projects to quickly gain leverage of domain concepts underlying the projects. However, this task is time-consuming and limited to the projects at hand. To ensure comprehensive elicitation using more widely...

When software development teams modify their requirements engineering process as an independent variable, they often examine the implications of these process changes by assessing the quality of the products of the requirements engineering process, e.g., a software requirements specification (SRS). Using the quality of the SRS as the dependent variable is flawed. As an alternative, this paper p...

The elicitation of end-user requirements is primarily focusing on the industry, where companies endeavor to discover and satisfy their customer’s requirements. Increasingly however, companies which are working in the same or in different fields are getting together, in order to do joint research and development, despite the fact that they may be potential competitors. These kinds of projects ha...

This paper introduces an approach to multi-perspective requirements engineering (PREview) which has been designed for industrial use and discusses our practical experience in applying PREview. We have developed a flexible model of viewpoints and, using examples from an industrial application, show how this can be used to organise system requirements derived from radically different sources. We ...

Developing a desirable framework for handling inconsistencies in software requirements specifications is a challenging problem. It has been widely recognized that the relative priority of requirements can help developers to make some necessary trade-off decisions for resolving conflicts. Address for correspondence: Kedian Mu, School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P...

With the VMS (Variable Message Signs) gradually and extensively used in major cities, it is necessary to develop a related evaluation system to evaluate its guidance effect systematically and efficiently. This paper primarily studies on developing a system to make the evaluation work more simply and quickly, and it chiefly contains the following five aspects: Firstly, conducting the system requ...

In this paper, we discuss an approach to system requirements engineering, which is based on using models of the responsibilities assigned to agents in a multi-agency system of systems. The responsibility models serve as a basis for identifying the stakeholders that should be considered in establishing the requirements and provide a basis for a structured approach, described here, for informatio...

E-health is a rising research area in the public health, business and medical informatics sectors and refers to health and information services that are delivered or improved by using the Internet and other related information technologies. Various aspects of e-health are discussed in the literature; however, there is a research gap in the areas of system requirements engineering and ehealth bu...

In this paper, we present an approach for the automatic verification of software requirements specifications. This approach is based on the representation of software requirements in XML and the usage of the XSLT language not only to automatically generate requirements documents, but also to verify some desired quality properties and to automatically compute some metrics. These ideas have been ...