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Recent advances in large pretrained models have led to their widespread integration as core components in modern software systems. The trend is expected to continue in the foreseeable future. Unlike traditional software systems governed by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Dongming Jin , Zhi Jin , Linyu Li , Xiaohong Chen

This paper presents the methodology for the system requirements and architecture w.r.t. their decomposition and refinement. It also introduces ideas of refinement layers and of refinement-based verification.

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Maria Spichkova

Requirements Engineering (RE) is the discipline for identifying, analyzing, as well as ensuring the implementation and delivery of user, technical, and societal requirements. Recently reported issues concerning the acceptance of Artificial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Walid Maalej , Yen Dieu Pham , Larissa Chazette

In this position paper, we elaborate on the possibilities and needs to integrate Design Thinking into Requirements Engineering. We draw from our research and project experiences to compare what is understood as Design Thinking and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Jennifer Hehn , Daniel Mendez , Falk Uebernickel , Walter Brenner , Manfred Broy

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

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

[Context] Domain knowledge is recognized as a key component for the success of Requirements Engineering (RE), as it provides the conceptual support needed to understand the system context, ensure alignment with stakeholder needs, and reduce…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Marina Araújo , Júlia Araújo , Romeu Oliveira , Lucas Romao , Marcos Kalinowski

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

Requirement engineering (RE) is the first and the most important step in software production and development. The RE is aimed to specify software requirements. One of the tasks in RE is the categorization of software requirements as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Fatemeh Khayashi , Behnaz Jamasb , Reza Akbari , Pirooz Shamsinejadbabaki

Software engineering practices such as constructing requirements and establishing traceability help ensure systems are safe, reliable, and maintainable. However, they can be resource-intensive and are frequently underutilized. To alleviate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Katherine R. Dearstyne , Alberto D. Rodriguez , Jane Cleland-Huang

The work concerns automatic generation of logical specifications from requirements models. Logical specifications obtained in such a way can be subjected to formal verification using deductive reasoning. Formal verification concerns…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Radoslaw Klimek

Context: Advances in technical debt research demonstrate the benefits of applying the financial debt metaphor to support decision-making in software development activities. Although decision-making during requirements engineering has…

The area of Traffic Management (TM) is characterized by uncertainty, complexity, and imprecision. The complexity of software systems in the TM domain which contributes to a more challenging Requirements Engineering (RE) job mainly stems…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Mohammad Noaeen , Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad , Behrouz Homayoun Far

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 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

Goal-oriented requirements variability modelling has established the understanding for adaptability in the early stage of software development-the Requirements Engineering phase. Goal-oriented requirements variability modelling considers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Khavee Agustus Botangen , Jian Yu , Sira Yongchareon , LiangHuai Yang , Quan Bai

Metric Elicitation (ME) is a framework for eliciting classification metrics that better align with implicit user preferences based on the task and context. The existing ME strategy so far is based on the assumption that users can most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-08 Safinah Ali , Sohini Upadhyay , Gaurush Hiranandani , Elena L. Glassman , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

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

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Agentic AI become increasingly integrated across sectors such as education and healthcare, it is critical to ensure that Multi-Agent Education System (MAES) is explainable from the early stages of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Weibing Zheng , Laurah Turner , Jess Kropczynski , Matthew Kelleher , Murat Ozer , Shane Halse

This research aims to design and develop a new requirements prioritization approach for analyzing and prioritizing stakeholders requirements which are mentioned in the feedback for software products. This paper presents a PhD research…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Saurabh Malgaonkar , Sherlock A. Licorish , Bastin Tony Roy Savarimuthu