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Existing refinement calculi provide frameworks for the stepwise development of imperative programs from specifications. This paper presents a refinement calculus for deriving logic programs. The calculus contains a wide-spectrum logic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ian Hayes , Robert Colvin , David Hemer , Paul Strooper , Ray Nickson

Process modeling is a suitable tool for improving the business processes. Successful process modeling strongly depends on correct requirements engineering. In this paper, we proposed a combination approach for requirements elicitation for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Masoud Nosrati

Requirements engineering is crucial to software development but lacks a precise definition of its fundamental concepts. Even the basic definitions in the literature and in industry standards are often vague and verbose. To remedy this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Bertrand Meyer , Jean-Michel Bruel , Sophie Ebersold , Florian Galinier , Alexandr Naumchev

Context: Requirements engineering process improvement (REPI) approaches have gained much attention in research and practice. Goal: So far, there is no comprehensive view on the research in REPI in terms of solutions and current state of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Daniel Méndez Fernández , Saahil Ognawala , Stefan Wagner , Maya Daneva

Artificial intelligence (AI) permeates all fields of life, which resulted in new challenges in requirements engineering for artificial intelligence (RE4AI), e.g., the difficulty in specifying and validating requirements for AI or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Umm-e- Habiba , Markus Haug , Justus Bogner , Stefan Wagner

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a key activity in the development of software systems and is concerned with the identification of the goals of stakeholders and their elaboration into precise statements of desired services and behavior. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-10-28 Abdullah Masood , M. Asim Ali

Requirements Engineering has recently been greatly influenced by the way how firms use Open Source Software (OSS) and Software Ecosystems (SECOs) as a part of their product development and business models. This is further emphasized by the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Johan Linåker , Krzysztof Wnuk

This paper presents a unique approach to connecting requirements engineering (RE) activities into a process framework that can be employed to obtain quality requirements with reduced expenditures of effort and cost. We propose a two-phase…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Lester Lobo , James D. Arthur

[Context and Motivation]: The quality of requirements specifications impacts subsequent, dependent software engineering activities. Requirements quality defects like ambiguous statements can result in incomplete or wrong features and even…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Julian Frattini

Context and Motivation: Natural language is the most common form to specify requirements in industry. The quality of the specification depends on the capability of the writer to formulate requirements aimed at different stakeholders: they…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Tony Gorschek

For many years, we have observed industry struggling in defining a high quality requirements engineering (RE) and researchers trying to understand industrial expectations and problems. Although we are investigating the discipline with a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-30 D. Méndez Fernández , S. Wagner

As agents based on large language models are increasingly deployed to long-horizon tasks, maintaining their alignment with stakeholder preferences becomes critical. Effective alignment in such settings requires reward models that are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Charlie Masters , Marta Grześkiewicz , Stefano V. Albrecht

Since software performance requirements are documented in natural language, quantifying them into mathematical forms is essential for software engineering. Yet, the vagueness in performance requirements and uncertainty of human cognition…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Shihai Wang , Tao Chen

Requirements elicitation and requirements analysis are important practices of Requirements Engineering. Elicitation techniques, such as interviews and questionnaires, rely on formulating interrogative questions and asking these in a proper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Mujahid Sultan , Andriy Miranskyy

Pre-Requirement Specification traceability is the activity of capturing relations between requirements and their sources, in particular user needs. Requirements are formal technical specifications in the solution space; needs are natural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ramya Ravichandar , James D. Arthur , Manuel Pérez-Quiñones

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 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

Understanding and modeling buyer intent is a foundational challenge in optimizing search query reformulation within the dynamic landscape of e-commerce search systems. This work introduces a robust data pipeline designed to mine and analyze…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Jayanth Yetukuri , Ishita Khan

Challenges in spatial planning include adjusting settlement patterns to increasing or shrinking populations; it also includes organizing food delivery in rural and peripheral environments. Discourse typically starts with an open problem and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Kurt Schneider , Oliver Karras , Anne Finger , Barbara Zibell

In industrial practice, requirements are an indispensable element of any serious software project. In the academic study of software engineering, requirements are one of the heavily researched subjects. And yet requirements engineering, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Maria Naumcheva , Sophie Ebersold , Jean-Michel Bruel , Bertrand Meyer