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Stakeholders often struggle to accurately express their requirements due to articulation barriers arising from limited domain knowledge or from cognitive constraints. This can cause misalignment between expressed and intended requirements,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Michael Mircea , Emre Gevrek , Elisa Schmid , Kurt Schneider

This paper presents a framework that guides the requirements engineer in the implementation and execution of an effective requirements generation process. We achieve this goal by providing a well-defined requirements engineering model and a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lester Lobo , James D. Arthur

The requirements elicited from stakeholders are typically informal, incomplete, ambiguous, and inconsistent. It is the task of Requirements Engineering to transform them into an eligible (formal, sufficiently complete, unambiguous,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Feng-Lin Li , Alexander Borgida , Giancarlo Guizzardi , Jennifer Horkoff , Lin Liu , John Mylopoulos

With the rapid improvement of LLMs' coding capabilities, the bottleneck of LLM-based automated software development is shifting from generating correct code to eliciting users' requirements. Despite growing interest, the interview…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dongming Jin , Zhi Jin , Zheng Fang , Linyu Li , XiaoTian Yang , Yuanpeng He , Xiaohong Chen

In the context of requirements engineering, relation extraction involves identifying and documenting the associations between different requirements artefacts. When dealing with textual requirements (i.e., requirements expressed using…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Quim Motger , Xavier Franch

Requirement Analysis is an important phase in software development which deals with understanding the customers requirements. It includes the collection of information from the customer, which is regarding the customers requirements and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Abhishek Kotnala , R. Selvarani

Requirements Engineering Methods (REMs) support Requirements Engineering (RE) tasks, from elicitation, through modeling and analysis, to validation and evolution of requirements. Despite the growing interest to design, validate and teach…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-03-09 Ivan Jureta

Requirements elicitation requires extensive knowledge and deep understanding of the problem domain where the final system will be situated. However, in many software development projects, analysts are required to elicit the requirements…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad , Vincenzo Gervasi , Didar Zowghi , Ken Barker

The purpose of requirements engineering (RE) is to make sure that the expectations and needs of the stakeholders of a software system are met. Emotional needs can be captured as emotional requirements that represent how the end user should…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Tahira Iqbal , Hina Anwar , Syazwanie Filzah , Mohammad Gharib , Kerli Moose , Kuldar Taveter

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Siyuan Ji , Charles E. Dickerson , Michael Wilkinson

Requirements engineering (RE) literature acknowledges the importance of early stakeholder identification. The sources of requirements are many and also constantly changing as the market and business constantly change. Identifying and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Eriks Klotins , Veselka Boeva , Krzysztof Wnuk , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Tony Gorschek , Slinger Jansen

Past ontology requirements engineering (ORE) has primarily relied on manual methods, such as interviews and collaborative forums, to gather user requirements from domain experts, especially in large projects. Current OntoChat offers a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yihang Zhao , Bohui Zhang , Xi Hu , Shuyin Ouyang , Jongmo Kim , Nitisha Jain , Jacopo de Berardinis , Albert Meroño-Peñuela , Elena Simperl

This paper assumes that design language plays an important role in how designers design and on the creativity of designers. Designers use and develop models as an aid to thinking, a focus for discussion and decision-making and a means of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Alain-Jérôme Fougères , Egon Ostrosi

The project, under industrial funding, presented in this publication aims at the semantic analysis of a normative document describing requirements applicable to electrical appliances. The objective of the project is to build a semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Helene de Ribaupierre , Anne-Francoise Cutting-Decelle , Nathalie Baumier , Serge Blumental

Requirements elicitation, a critical, yet time-consuming and challenging step in product development, often fails to capture the full spectrum of user needs. This may lead to products that fall short of expectations. This paper introduces a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Mohammadmehdi Ataei , Hyunmin Cheong , Daniele Grandi , Ye Wang , Nigel Morris , Alexander Tessier

The requirements elicited from stakeholders suffer from various afflictions, including informality, incompleteness, ambiguity, vagueness, inconsistencies, and more. It is the task of requirements engineering (RE) processes to derive from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Feng-Lin Li , John Mylopoulos

Requirements elicitation interviews are a widely adopted technique, where the interview success heavily depends on the interviewer's preparedness and communication skills. Students can enhance these skills through practice interviews.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Binnur Görer , Fatma Başak Aydemir

Natural language processing supported requirements engineering is an area of research and development that seeks to apply NLP techniques, tools and resources to a variety of requirements documents or artifacts to support a range of…

Conversational search systems enable information retrieval via natural language interactions, with the goal of maximizing users' information gain over multiple dialogue turns. The increasing prevalence of conversational interfaces adopting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Phillip Schneider , Wessel Poelman , Michael Rovatsos , Florian Matthes

Requirements engineering plays a critical role in developing software systems. One of the most difficult tasks in this process is identifying functional requirements. A critical problem in many projects is missing requirements until late in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Sabah Al-Fedaghi