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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

The main objective of the RET workshop was to explore the interaction of Requirements Engineering (RE) and Testing, i.e. RET, in research and industry, and the challenges that result from this interaction. While much work has been done in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Michael Felderer , Elizabeth Bjarnason , Markus Borg , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Mirko Morandini , Matt Staats

The last decade has seen an upswing in interest and adoption of reinforcement learning (RL) techniques, in large part due to its demonstrated capabilities at performing certain tasks at "super-human levels". This has incentivized the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Pablo Samuel Castro

Research must be reproducible in order to make an impact on science and to contribute to the body of knowledge in our field. Yet studies have shown that 70% of research from academic labs cannot be reproduced. In software engineering, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Clinton Woodson , Jane Huffman Hayes , Sarah Griffioen

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

The integration of AI for Requirements Engineering (RE) presents significant benefits but also poses real challenges. Although RE is fundamental to software engineering, limited research has examined AI adoption in RE. We surveyed 55…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Lekshmi Murali Rani , Richard Berntsson Svensson , Robert Feldt

[Context] Engineering Artificial Intelligence (AI) software is a relatively new area with many challenges, unknowns, and limited proven best practices. Big companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Apple have provided a suite of recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Khlood Ahmad , Mohamed Abdelrazek , Chetan Arora , Muneera Bano , John Grundy

Requirements Engineering (RE) is one of the prime areas in software development. Since agile software development englobes several emerging techniques and advocates for continuous improvement, it urges the question of which agile RE…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Juan Carlos Barata , Diego Lisboa , Laudelino Cordeiro Bastos , Adolfo Neto

Workflow support typically focuses on single simulation experiments. This is also the case for simulation based on finite element methods. If entire simulation studies shall be supported, flexible means for intertwining revising the model,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Andreas Ruscheinski , Pia Wilsdorf , Julius Zimmermann , Ursula van Rienen , Adelinde M. Uhrmacher

Requirements quality research, which is dedicated to assessing and improving the quality of requirements specifications, is dependent on research artifacts like data sets (containing information about quality defects) and implementations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Julian Frattini , Lloyd Montgomery , Davide Fucci , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Daniel Mendez , Jannik Fischbach

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…

The requirements elicited from stakeholders suffer from various afflictions, including informality, incompleteness, ambiguity, vagueness, inconsistencies, and more. It is the task of requirements engineering (RE) processes to derive from…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Feng-Lin Li , John Mylopoulos

In large-scale automotive companies, various requirements engineering (RE) practices are used across teams. RE practices manifest in Requirements Information Models (RIM) that define what concepts and information should be captured for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Rebekka Wohlrab , Eric Knauss , Patrizio Pelliccione

Requirements Engineering (RE) has received much attention in research and practice due to its importance to software project success. Its interdisciplinary nature, the dependency to the customer, and its inherent uncertainty still render…

Understanding and adhering to traffic regulations is essential for autonomous vehicles to ensure safety and trustworthiness. However, traffic regulations are complex, context-dependent, and differ between regions, posing a major challenge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Tianhui Cai , Yifan Liu , Zewei Zhou , Haoxuan Ma , Seth Z. Zhao , Zhiwen Wu , Xu Han , Zhiyu Huang , Jiaqi Ma

Artifact evaluation has been adopted in the Software Engineering (SE) research community for 15 years, substantially improving research reproducibility across major SE conferences. However, this success has introduced a growing scalability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhaonan Wu , Yanjie Zhao , Zhenpeng Chen , Zheng Wang , Haoyu Wang

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

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…

In this paper, we report on our 5-year's practical experience of designing, developing and then deploying a Model-based Requirements Engineering (MBRE) approach and language in the context of three different large European collaborative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Andrey Sadovykh , Dragos Truscan , Hugo Bruneliere

Requirements engineering (RE) literature acknowledges the importance of early stakeholder identification. The sources of requirements are many and also constantly changing as the market and business constantly change. Identifying and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Eriks Klotins , Veselka Boeva , Krzysztof Wnuk , Michael Unterkalmsteiner , Tony Gorschek , Slinger Jansen