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Multi-aspects Intelligent Requirements Prioritization Technique for Value Based Software Systems

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Requirements engineering (RE) is an important phase of software engineering. During this phase, an important set of activities are carried out to manage requirements elicitation, verification, prioritization and validation. Dimension and dynamics of software development are changing with the passage of time. Economic growth in different sectors is increasing the demand for software development. This enhancement has introduced the concept of Value Base Software (VBS) development. Requirements prioritization is playing a vital role in ordering requirements to support the release planning of the software. A prioritization process is considered as highly complex process and depends on the nature and size of requirements. VBS systems are entirely different from typical software development, and prioritization process for VBS is also very challenging. A need arises from the provision of prioritization techniques to support the technical and business aspects-based prioritization. Existing techniques are not qualified to meet the expectation of the industry for VBS development. Therefore, this research contribution is an effort made, based on an intelligent decision support system for requirements prioritization in the domain of VBS system. Aspects based requirements prioritization is applied to many requirements and results are produced in two clusters. Results are claimed as a prioritized list of requirements for traditional as well as value-based system.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering, School of Computing, Department of Software Engineering, UTM, 81310, Johor, Malaysia

    Falak Sher, Dayang N. A. Jawawi, Radziah Mohammad & Muhammad Arif Shah

  2. Army Public College of Management and Sciences, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

    Muhammad Imran Babar

  3. Department of Computer Science & IT, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

    Rafaqat Kazmi

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Sher, F., Jawawi, D.N.A., Mohammad, R., Babar, M.I., Kazmi, R., Shah, M.A. (2020). Multi-aspects Intelligent Requirements Prioritization Technique for Value Based Software Systems. In: Bajwa, I., Sibalija, T., Jawawi, D. (eds) Intelligent Technologies and Applications. INTAP 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1198. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5232-8_31

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