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Understanding Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) and trade-offs among them is a key task for systems architects. Modeling notations have been proposed to represent NFRs and tradeoffs among them, yet identification of relevant knowledge inside models (for understanding and/or reuse) remains quite simplistic and manual. This paper proposes to address fragment identification as a problem best served with interactive aids and presents a faceted exploration approach to explore NFR solutions and identify reusable model fragments. NFRs and trade-offs are represented as ontologies, thus opening the door to model merging and high-end visualization. The approach is illustrated with a real-world model, and a prototype tool is introduced. The ultimate goal of this effort is enabling reuse of NFR and trade-off knowledge.
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López, C., Astudillo, H., Cysneiros, L.M. (2008). Semantic-Aided Interactive Identification of Reusable NFR Knowledge Fragments. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z., Herrero, P. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008 Workshops. OTM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5333. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88875-8_54
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