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Requirements engineering: An integrated view of representation, process, and domain

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Software Engineering — ESEC '93 (ESEC 1993)

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Reuse, system integration, and interoperability create a growing need for capturing, representing, and using application-level information about software-intensive systems and their evolution. In ESPRIT Basic Research Project NATURE, we are developing an integrative approach to requirements management based on a three-dimensional framework which addresses formalism as well as cognitive and social aspects. This leads to a new requirements process model which integrates human freedoms through allowing relatively free decisions in given situations. Classes of situations and decisions are defined with respect to the three-dimensional framework through the integration of informal and formal representations, theories of domain modeling, and the explicit consideration of nonfunctional requirements in teamwork. Technical support is provided by a conceptual modeling environment with knowledge acquisition through interactive as well as reverse modeling, and with similarity-based querying.

This work is supported in part by ESPRIT Basic Research Project 6353 (NATURE).

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  1. Informatik V, RWTH Aachen, Ahornstr. 55, 5100, Aachen, Germany

    Matthias Jarke, Klaus Pohl & Stephan Jacobs

  2. SISU-ISE, Isafjordsgatan 26, 1250, Kista, Sweden

    Janis Bubenko, Petia Assenova, Peter Holm & Benkt Wangler

  3. Universite Paris 1, rue de al Sorbonne 17, 75231, Paris, France

    Colette Rolland, Veronique Plihon & Jean -Roch Schmitt

  4. Business Comp., City University, ECIV OHB, London, UK

    Alistair Sutcliffe, Sara Jones, Neil Maiden & David Till

  5. ICS-FORTH, Dedalou 36, 71110, Heraclion, Greece

    Yannis Vassiliou, Panos Constantopoulos & Giorgios Spanoudakis

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Jarke, M. et al. (1993). Requirements engineering: An integrated view of representation, process, and domain. In: Sommerville, I., Paul, M. (eds) Software Engineering — ESEC '93. ESEC 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 717. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57209-0_8

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