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This short paper explores how a maritime company develops and integrates large-language models (LLM). Specifically by looking at the requirements engineering for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) systems in expert settings. Through a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Tor Sporsem , Rasmus Ulfsnes

Requirements prioritization is a critical activity during the early software development process, which produces a set of key requirements to implement. The prioritization process offers a parity among the requirements based on multiple…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jonathan Winton , Francis Palma

Requirements are key artefacts to describe the intended purpose of a software system. The quality of requirements is crucial for deciding what to do next, impacting the development process's effectiveness and efficiency. However, we know…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Emil Lind , Javier Gonzalez-Huerta , Emil Alégroth

Large Language Models (LLMs) often fail to utilize their latent reasoning capabilities due to a distributional mismatch between ambiguous human inquiries and the structured logic required for machine activation. Existing alignment methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yixiao Zhou , Dongzhou Cheng , zhiliang wu , Yi Yang , Yu Cheng , Hehe Fan

Growth of the older adult population has led to an increasing interest in technology-supported aged care. However, the area has some challenges such as a lack of caregivers and limitations in understanding the emotional, social, physical,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Yuqing Xiao , John Grundy , Anuradha Madugalla

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…

We introduce the task of entity-centric query refinement. Given an input query whose answer is a (potentially large) collection of entities, the task output is a small set of query refinements meant to assist the user in efficient domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 David Wadden , Nikita Gupta , Kenton Lee , Kristina Toutanova

Requirements elicitation is an important phase of any software project: the errors in requirements are more expensive to fix than the errors introduced at later stages of software life cycle. Nevertheless, many projects do not devote…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Maria Naumcheva

Translating security intent into deployable network enforcement rules and maintaining their effectiveness despite evolving cyber threats remains a largely manual process in most Security Operations Centers (SOCs). In large and heterogeneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Davide Colaiacomo , Chiara Bonfanti , Cataldo Basile

The vision of End-User Software Engineering (EUSE) is to empower non-professional users with full control over the software development lifecycle. It aims to enable users to drive generative software development using only natural language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Sai Zhang , Zhenchang Xing , Jieshan Chen , Dehai Zhao , Zizhong Zhu , Xiaowang Zhang , Zhiyong Feng , Xiaohong Li

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

Requirements are elicited from the customer and other stakeholders through an iterative process of interviews, prototyping, and other interactive sessions. Then, requirements can be further extended, based on the analysis of the features of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Alessio Ferrari , Paola Spoletini , Sourav Debnath

This paper identifies and tackles the challenges of the requirements engineering discipline when applied to development of AI-based complex systems. Due to their complex behaviour, there is an immanent need for a tailored development…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Hrvoje Belani , Marin Vuković , Željka Car

Context: Conditional statements like "If A and B then C" are core elements for describing software requirements. However, there are many ways to express such conditionals in natural language and also many ways how they can be interpreted.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jannik Fischbach , Julian Frattini , Daniel Mendez , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Henning Femmer , Andreas Vogelsang

Requirement prioritization is recognized as an important decision-making activity in requirements engineering and software development. Requirement prioritization is applied to determine which requirements should be implemented and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Richard Berntsson Svensson , Richard Torkar

The rapid expansion of software development has significant environmental, technical, social, and economic impacts. Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 compels developers to adopt sustainable practices.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Mandira Roy , Novarun Deb , Nabendu Chaki , Agostino Cortesi

Context: Requirements engineering (RE) is an important part of Software Engineering (SE), consisting of various human-centric activities that require the frequent collaboration of a variety of roles. Prior research has shown that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Dulaji Hidellaarachchi , John Grundy , Rashina Hoda , Ingo Mueller

Software requirements specification is undoubtedly critical for the whole software life-cycle. Nowadays, writing software requirements specifications primarily depends on human work. Although massive studies have been proposed to fasten the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Ziyan Zhao , Li Zhang , Xiaoyun Gao , Xiaoli Lian , Heyang Lv , Lin Shi

Within the field of Requirements Engineering (RE), the increasing significance of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in aligning AI-supported systems with user needs, societal expectations, and regulatory standards has garnered…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Timo Speith , Markus Langer

Requirement engineering is a key ingredient for software development to be effective. Apart from the traditional software requirement which is not much appropriate for new emerging software such as smart handheld device based software. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-08-13 Tamjid Rahman , M. Rokonuzzaman