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A WebGIS Interface Requirements Modeling Language

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WebGIS applications have become popular due to technological advances in location and sensor technology, with diverse examples with different objectives becoming available. However, there is a lack of requirements elicitation approaches for WebGIS applications, restricting the communication between stakeholders, compromising the systematization of development, and the overall quality of the resulting systems. In this paper, we present the WebGIS Interface Requirements Modeling Language (WebGIS IRML), developed to support communication between stakeholders and developers, addressing user interface requirements during the development process of a WebGIS application. WebGIS IRML is supported by a requirements model editor, which was developed using Model-Driven Development (MDD) techniques. We also describe an experiment which was performed to evaluate the language, involving 30 participants (mostly IT Engineers), to measure the ease of understanding of the language models resulting from the use of the language in the editor and capture the feedback of participants about it. Generally, the results were quite positive, encouraging the use of the language for WebGIS development.

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    PASEV project: https://pasev.hcommons.org/.

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We thank NOVA LINCS UID/CEC/04516/2019 and PASEV PTDC/ART-PER/28584/2017 project for supporting this work.

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  1. NOVA LINCS, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Roberto Veloso, João Araujo & Armanda Rodrigues

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  3. University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

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Veloso, R., Araujo, J., Rodrigues, A. (2021). A WebGIS Interface Requirements Modeling Language. In: Cherfi, S., Perini, A., Nurcan, S. (eds) Research Challenges in Information Science. RCIS 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 415. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75018-3_17

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