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Implementing privacy by design (PbD) according to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is met with a growing number of requirements engineering (RE) approaches. However, the question of which RE method for PbD fits best the goals…

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In the international standard for system and software engineering ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288: 2015, the output of the stakeholder needs and the business or mission analysis technical processes are transformed into a technical view of the system by…

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Context: Researchers, both in industry and academia, are facing the challenge of leveraging the benefits of goal oriented requirements engineering (GORE) techniques to business compliance management. This requires analyzing goal models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Novarun Deb , Nabendu Chaki

[Context and motivation] When developing software, coordination between different organizational units is essential in order to develop a good quality product, on time and within budget. Particularly, the synchronization between…

Aligning the activities of an organization with its business goals is a challenging task that is critical for success. Alignment in a multi-organizational setting requires the integration of different internal or external organizational…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-10 Martin Kowalczyk , Jürgen Münch , Masafumi Katahira , Tatsuya Kaneko , Yuko Miyamoto , Yumi Koishi

Source code spends most of its time in a broken or incomplete state during software development. This presents a challenge to machine learning for code, since high-performing models typically rely on graph structured representations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Xuechen Li , Chris J. Maddison , Daniel Tarlow

Research shows that many of the challenges currently encountered with agile development are related to requirements engineering. Based on design science research, this paper investigates critical challenges that arise in agile development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Amna Pir Muhammad , Eric Knauss , Odzaya Batsaikhan , Nassiba El Haskouri , Yi-Chun Lin , Alessia Knauss

The development of high-quality software or software-intensive systems requires custom-tailored process models that fit the organizational and project goals as well as the development contexts. These models are a necessary prerequisite for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-20 Jürgen Münch

When used in requirements processes and tools, personas have the potential to identify vulnerabilities resulting from misalignment between user expectations and system goals. Typically, however, this potential is unfulfilled as personas and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Shamal Faily , Claudia Iacob , Raian Ali , Duncan Ki-Aries

Many real-world applications require decision-makers to assess the quality of solutions while considering multiple conflicting objectives. Obtaining good approximation sets for highly constrained many-objective problems is often a difficult…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Rodrigo Lankaites Pinheiro , Dario Landa-Silva , Wasakorn Laesanklang , Ademir Aparecido Constantino

Investigating serious crimes is inherently complex and resource-constrained. Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) grapple with overwhelming volumes of offender and incident data, making effective suspect identification difficult. Although…

In the past years, software reverse engineering dealt with source code understanding. Nowadays, it is levered to software requirements abstract level, supported by feature model notations, language independent, and simpler than the source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Anas Alhamwieh , Said Ghoul

We present our ongoing work on requirements specification and analysis for the geographically distributed software and systems. Developing software and systems within/for different countries or states or even within/for different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-10 Maria Spichkova , Heinz Schmidt

We suggest a general oracle-based framework that captures different parallel stochastic optimization settings described by a dependency graph, and derive generic lower bounds in terms of this graph. We then use the framework and derive…

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Recent times have seen data analytics software applications become an integral part of the decision-making process of analysts. The users of these software applications generate a vast amount of unstructured log data. These logs contain…

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Enterprise level software is implemented using multi-layer architecture. These layers are often implemented using de-coupled solutions with millions of lines of code. Programmers often have to track and debug a function call from user…

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Context: User involvement is generally considered to contributing to user satisfaction and project success and is central to Agile software development. In theory, the expectations about user involvement, such as the PO's, are quite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Jim Buchan , Muneera Bano , Didar Zowghi , Stephen MacDonell , Amrita Shinde

Context: Consistent requirements and system specifications are essential for the compliance of software systems towards the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Both artefacts need to be grounded in the original text and conjointly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Oleksandr Kosenkov , Ehsan Zabardast , Davide Fucci , Daniel Mendez , Michael Unterkalmsteiner

Software systems are composed of many interacting elements. A natural way to abstract over software systems is to model them as graphs. In this paper we consider software dependency graphs of object-oriented software and we study one…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Vincenzo Musco , Martin Monperrus , Philippe Preux

Context: Responsibility gaps, long-recognized challenges in socio-technical systems where accountability becomes diffuse or ambiguous, have become increasingly pronounced in GenAI-enabled software. The generative and adaptive nature…

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