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Requirements engineering plays an essential role in software development. Requirements are prescriptive statements that express situations to be enforced by a system in terms of its effects on its environment. There have been many discussions of functional versus non-functional requirements, of hard-goals versus soft-goals, of non-functional and quality requirements versus soft-goals. Quality r...

A conceptual model can be an important instrument to support the software functional requirements elicitation because it promotes better understanding of a domain. However, the representation quality of the conceptual model depends on the expressivity of the language used. OntoUML is a proposed language to solve expressivity problems. Nevertheless, OntoUML models are complicated to build for no...

Although various application domains use requirements elicitation procedures to gather information and model the application domain, only a few guidelines mention the important characteristics that are essential for such procedures. This paper reports on identifying a set of characteristics for a functional requirements elicitation procedure within the higher education domain.

The Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agent model is a highly favoured agent development model known for its distinct abstraction between components, conceptual adaptability and flexibility in determining its actions. This determination is handled through a plan selection function which determines the most appropriate plan or action given the current state of the environment. Whilst it is conceptua...

This paper aims to develop an Indian-logic based approach for automatic generation of software requirements from a domain-specific ontology. The structure of domain ontology is adapted from Indian logic. The interactive approach proposed in this paper parses the problem statement, and the section of domain ontology, which matches the problem statement, is identified. The software generates ques...

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA has been working on a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world: RDA. This standard is scheduled to be released at the end of November 2009. RDA will provide a flexible framework for describing all resources analog and digital, i. e. data that is readily adaptable to new and emerging database structures an...

Requirements engineering faces new challenges due to changes of requirements. 1. We need not only requirements for functionality, but also requirements on the ability of adaptation to environmental needs. 2. For secure, trustworthy software services, we need to analyze the intentions and capability of attackers and potential system abusers. 3. When it comes to offshoring and outsourcing, simple...

Requirements Engineering (RE) is getting more attention as it has been recognized as a crucial phase in the development of the software system life cycle. Recent works have made a distinction between early-phase RE and later-phase RE. Early-phases RE activities are typically informal and addresses non-functional requirements. The later-phase RE usually focuses on completeness, consistency, and ...