Computational Mechanisms for Distributed Requirements Engineering.
Neil Maiden, Alistair Sutcliffe, Petia Assenova, P. Johanneson, Matthias Jarke, Hans W. Nissen, Panos Constantopoulos, George Spanoudakis · 1995
This paper argues for new computational mechanisms to aid specification of requirements for composite systems. It presents mechanisms for storing specification fragments, or viewpoints, and reasoning about these viewpoints to resolve semantic discrepancies prior to their integration in a comprehensive solution for distributed requirements engineering. 1: Introduction Requirements for complex, composite systems are acquired and modelled from different and distributed viewpoints (Nuseibeh et al. 1993) held by participants who produce the specification. This is known as distributed requirements engineering. In most cases these viewpoints must be integrated to provide either a contract for design during requirements procurement or a specification for bespoke system design. Overlaps and gaps must be identified and expressed, participants made to interact and cooperate, and contradictions resolved. However, there has been little computational assistance for analysing and integrating these vi...