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In requirements engineering for recommender systems, software engineers must identify the data that drives the recommendations. This is a labor-intensive task, which is error-prone and expensive. One possible solution to this problem is the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Ivens Portugal , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan

Many of the requirements engineering (RE) difficulties have been argued to be due to the evolving nature of design problems in dynamic environments, characterized by high levels of uncertainty, ambiguity and emergence. It has also been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Sami Jantunen , Rex Dumdum , Donald C. Gause

`Smart cities', urban development projects that design computational systems and sensory technology to monitor activity and regulate energy consumption and resource distribution, are a frontier for the prospective deployment of ICTs for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Curtis McCord , Christoph Becker

In Requirements Engineering, requirements elicitation aims the acquisition of information from the stakeholders of a system-to-be. An important task during elicitation is to identify and render explicit the stakeholders' implicit…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-26 Corentin Burnay , Ivan Jureta , Stéphane Faulkner

Government development projects vary significantly from private sector initiatives in scope, stakeholder complexity, and regulatory requirements. There is a lack of empirical studies focusing on requirements engineering (RE) activities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anqi Ren , Lin Liu , Yi Wang , Xiao Liu , Hailong Wang , Kaijia Xu , Xishuo Zhang , Chetan Arora

Requirements Engineering (RE) is known to be critical for the success of software projects, and hence forms an important part of any Software Engineering (SE) education curriculum offered at tertiary level. In this paper, we report the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-04-06 Saurabh Tiwari , Deepti Ameta , Paramvir Singh , Ashish Sureka

Context: The use of standards is considered a vital part of any engineering discipline. So one could expect that standards play an important role in Requirements Engineering (RE) as well. However, little is known about the actual knowledge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Xavier Franch , Martin Glinz , Daniel Mendez , Norbert Seyff

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

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

Over the last decade, researchers and engineers have developed a vast body of methodologies and technologies in requirements engineering for self-adaptive systems. Although existing studies have explored various aspects of this topic, few…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Zhuoqun Yang , Zhi Li , Zhi Jin

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a means to reduce the risk of delivering a product that does not fulfill the stakeholders' needs. Therefore, a major challenge in RE is to decide how much RE is needed and what RE methods to apply. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Florian Wiesweg , Andreas Vogelsang , Daniel Mendez

Many modern software-intensive systems employ artificial intelligence / machine-learning (AI/ML) components and are, thus, inherently data-centric. The behaviour of such systems depends on typically large amounts of data processed at…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Tatiana Chuprina , Daniel Mendez , Krzysztof Wnuk

Requirements engineering process intends to obtain software services and constraints. This process is essential to meet the customer's needs and expectations. This process includes three main activities in general. These are detecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Ra'Fat Al-Msie'deen , Anas H. Blasi , Mohammed A. Alsuwaiket

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

We present our ongoing work on requirements specification and analysis for the geographically distributed software and systems. Developing software and systems within/for different countries or states or even within/for different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-08-10 Maria Spichkova , Heinz Schmidt

Human-centered Requirements Engineering (HC-RE) integrates user cognition, emotions, and social interactions into the RE process through contributions from disciplines such as psychology, cognitive science, design thinking, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Imen Benzarti , Ikram Darif , Abderrahmane Leshob , Hafedh Mili , Darine Amayed

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

Critical software systems face stringent requirements in safety, security, and reliability due to the circumstances surrounding their operation. Safety and security have progressively gained importance over the years due to the integration…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Julio Escribano-Barreno , Marisol García-Valls

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 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