In this paper, we review current requirements engineering (RE) research and identify future research directions suggested by emerging software needs. First, we overview the state of the art in RE research. The research is considered with respect to technologies developed to address specific requirements tasks, such as elicitation, modeling, and analysis. Such a review enables us to identify mat...

Consensus building is essential in aligning multiple stakeholder viewpoints which are commonly emerging during the process of requirements elicitation, analysis and validation [15]. In fact, agreement among diverse groups of stakeholders is deemed prerequisite to establishing project cooperation and collaboration. While individuals frequently rank the importance of their personal goals over the...

The paper discusses difference in the requirements gather processes between a local team in software development and a global software development team. The paper highlights the cultural differences between a uniform cultural team and a multicultural team and argues that the communication issues that arise are inevitably associated with culture and geography. The second major issue raised in th...

The purpose of this research is to discuss about the requirement elicitation techniques and issues. Some issues are discussed in the paper that is in the requirement elicitation process and solving these issues is important for the implementation of requirements. The paper also provides an overview of the importance requirements elicitation to study the nature of the process. Requirement Elicit...

This paper considers the difficulties faced by the stakeholders in general requirements engineering (RE). These difficulties range from the complexity of requirements gathering to requirements presentation. Affordable visualization techniques have been widely implemented to support the requirements engineering community. However, no universal characteristics that could be associated with requir...

This paper reports on the requirements analysis for one-stop government. It is focused on the work that was done in the analysis phase of the eGOV project an EU project with the goal to develop an integrated platform for realizing online one-stop government which is presented as a case study. Different types and sources of requirements are described. Furthermore the user-survey for the eGOV pro...

The principal task of requirements engineering is the definition of requirements that reflects the understanding of the problem. In this process different approaches for information elicitation may be used. In our case we show that the application of elicitation strategies in the right form can improve the evolution of an existing artifact. In this paper we show the evolution of an education ga...

EPMcreate is a creativity technique for requirements elicitation based on a 16-step process. These steps suggest focusing on requirements related to every combination of two different target users or viewpoints. A series of experiments confirmed its feasibility; its applicability, both as individual and group technique; and its greater effectiveness than brainstorming. However, analysts involve...

We present a tutorial introduction to the area of preference handling – one of the core issues in the design of any system that automates or supports decision making. The main goal of this tutorial is to provide a framework, or perspective, within which current work on preference handling – representation, reasoning, and elicitation – can be understood. Our intention is not to provide a technic...

The aim of this work is to assess the performance of a maintenance policy when a stochastic model of the life of the component of interest is known, but relies on parameters that are imprecisely known, and only through information elicited from experts. The case in which the information used to feed the model comes from a single expert has been investigated by the authors in a previous work. Th...