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Monitoring humans, for example, their movement or location, is essential for safe and efficient human-machine collaboration in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). This information allows CPS to ensure safety properties, adapt their behaviour…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zoe Pfister , Ruth Breu , Michael Vierhauser

Background: Requirements Engineering is crucial for project success, and to this end, many measures for quality assurance of the software requirements specification (SRS) have been proposed. Goal: However, we still need an empirical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Jakob Mund , Henning Femmer , Daniel Méndez Fernández , Jonas Eckhardt

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

Background: Requirements engineering is of a principal importance when starting a new project. However, the number of the requirements involved in a single project can reach up to thousands. Controlling and assuring the quality of natural…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Panagiota Chatzipetrou , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Tony Gorschek

Complex decision-making is a prominent aspect of Requirements Engineering. This work presents the Bayesian network Requisites that predicts whether the requirements specification documents have to be revised. We show how to validate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 J. del Sagrado , I. M. del Águila

Requirements engineering (RE) is considerably different in agile development than in more traditional development processes. Yet, there is little empirical knowledge on the state of the practice and contemporary problems in agile RE. As…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Stefan Wagner , Daniel Méndez Fernández , Michael Felderer , Marcos Kalinowski

Effective Requirements Engineering is a crucial activity in softwareintensive development projects. The human-centric working mode of Design Thinking is considered a powerful way to complement such activities when designing innovative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Jennifer Hehn , Daniel Mendez

Software requirements are key elements that contribute to the quality and users satisfaction of the final system. In this work, Requirements Engineering (RE) of web sites is presented using an organizational semiotics perspective. They are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-05-15 Flávia Linhalis Arantes

The development of cyber-physical system (CPS) is a big challenge because of its complexity and its complex requirements. Especially in Requirements Engineering (RE), there exist many redundant and conflict requirements. Eliminating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Md. Masudur Rahman , Naushin Nower

With the increasing significance of Research, Technology, and Innovation (RTI) policies in recent years, the demand for detailed information about the performance of these sectors has surged. Many of the current tools are limited in their…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Alexandra Mazak-Huemer , Christian Huemer , Michael Vierhauser , Jürgen Janger

[Context] In traditional software systems, Requirements Engineering (RE) activities are well-established and researched. However, building Artificial Intelligence (AI) based software with limited or no insight into the system's inner…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Khlood Ahmad , Mohamed Abdelrazek , Chetan Arora , Muneera Bano , John Grundy

Research shows, that the major issue in development of quality software is precise estimation. Further this estimation depends upon the degree of intricacy inherent in the software i.e. complexity. This paper attempts to empirically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-06-16 Ashish Sharma , D. S. Kushwaha

Large Language Models (LLMs) are finding applications in numerous domains, and Requirements Engineering (RE) is increasingly benefiting from their capabilities to assist with complex, language-intensive tasks. This paper presents a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mohammad Amin Zadenoori , Jacek Dąbrowski , Waad Alhoshan , Liping Zhao , Alessio Ferrari

Industrial cyber-physical systems require complex distributed software to orchestrate many heterogeneous mechatronic components and control multiple physical processes. Industrial automation software is typically developed in a model-driven…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Roopak Sinha , Cheng Pang , Gerardo Santillán Martínez , Juha Kuronen , Valeriy Vyatkin

High-quality requirements minimize the risk of propagating defects to later stages of the software development life cycle. Achieving a sufficient level of quality is a major goal of requirements engineering. This requires a clear definition…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Julian Frattini , Lloyd Montgomery , Jannik Fischbach , Daniel Mendez , Davide Fucci , Michael Unterkalmsteiner

In this paper we present a formal framework for analysis and optimisation of the requirements specifications of systems developed to apply in several countries. As different countries typically have different regulations/laws as well as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Maria Spichkova , Heinz Schmidt

Requirements Engineering (RE) is the initial step towards building a software system. The success or failure of a software project is firmly tied to this phase, based on communication among stakeholders using natural language. The problem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Mohammad Kasra Habib , Stefan Wagner , Daniel Graziotin

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a critical discipline mostly driven by uncertainty, since it is influenced by the customer domain or by the development process model used. We aim to investigate RE processes in successful project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-12-01 D. Méndez Fernández , S. Wagner , K. Lochmann , A. Baumann , H. de Carne

Requirements engineering (RE) is a key area to address sustainability concerns in system development. Approaches have been proposed to elicit sustainability requirements from interested stakeholders before system design. However, existing…

Requirements engineering is a knowledge intensive process and crucial for the success of engineering projects. The field of knowledge-based requirements engineering (KBRE) aims to support engineers by providing knowledge to assist in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Lasse M. Reinpold , Marvin Schieseck , Lukas P. Wagner , Felix Gehlhoff , Alexander Fay