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Ontology-Based Requirements Conflicts Analysis in Activity Diagrams

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2009 (ICCSA 2009)

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Requirements conflicts analysis is one of most crucial activities in successful software engineering projects. Activity diagrams are a useful standard for modeling process behaviors of systems. This paper utilizes ontological approach to analyze conflicts in the requirement specifications of activity diagrams. The proposed conflicts analysis method includes a modeling process and a set of conflicts detection rules. Several scenarios of electronic commerce are also provided for demonstrating the validity of the proposed rules. The benefits of the proposed method are threefold: (1) The method provides systematic steps for modeling requirements and ontologies. (2) This method also offers a set of questions for facilitating requirements elicitation about activity diagrams. (3) The proposed rules can systematically assist in requirements conflicts detection.

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  1. Department of Information and Electronic Commerce, Kainan University, Taoyuan County, Taiwan

    Chi-Lun Liu

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. School of Business Systems, Clayton, Monash University, 3800, Victoria, Australia

    David Taniar

  3. L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T., University of Basilicata, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganà

  5. School of Computing, Computer Communication Laboratory, SoongSil University, 1-1 Sang-do 5 Dong, Dong-jak Ku, 156-743, Seoul, Korea

    Youngsong Mun

  6. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

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Liu, CL. (2009). Ontology-Based Requirements Conflicts Analysis in Activity Diagrams. In: Gervasi, O., Taniar, D., Murgante, B., Laganà, A., Mun, Y., Gavrilova, M.L. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2009. ICCSA 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5593. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02457-3_1

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