2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)最新文献

ARRoW: Tool Support for Automatic Runtime Reappraisal of Weights 箭头:工具支持权重的自动运行时重新评估

2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) Pub Date : 2017-09-26 DOI: 10.1109/RE.2017.58

L. H. Paucar, N. Bencomo

引用次数: 4

Juggling Preferences in a World of Uncertainty 在一个不确定的世界中权衡偏好

2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) Pub Date : 2017-09-26 DOI: 10.1109/RE.2017.12

L. H. Paucar, N. Bencomo, K. Yuen

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引用次数: 14

Canary: An Interactive and Query-Based Approach to Extract Requirements from Online Forums 金丝雀:从在线论坛中提取需求的交互式和基于查询的方法

2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) Pub Date : 2017-09-26 DOI: 10.1109/RE.2017.84

Georgi M. Kanchev, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, A. Chopra, P. Sawyer

引用次数: 8

Pushing Boundaries of RE: Requirement Elicitation for Non-human Users 推动RE的边界:非人类用户的需求引出

2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) Pub Date : 2017-09-26 DOI: 10.1109/RE.2017.30

A. Zamansky, D. Linden, Sofya Baskin

{"title":"Pushing Boundaries of RE: Requirement Elicitation for Non-human Users","authors":"A. Zamansky, D. Linden, Sofya Baskin","doi":"10.1109/RE.2017.30","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2017.30","url":null,"abstract":"With the advance of modern technologies, computer-based systems for animals are gaining popularity. In particular, there is an explosion of products and gadgets for pets: wellness monitoring applications (e.g., FitBark and PetPace), automatic food dispensers, cognitive enrichment apps, and many more. Furthermore, the discipline of Animal-Computer Interaction has emerged, focusing on a user-centric development of technologies for animals, making them stakeholders in the development process. Animal-centric technologies have already been developed to support activities of rescue and assistance dogs, to provide environmental and cognitive enrichment for animals in captivity, and to support conservation and animal behavior research. Going beyond human stakeholders poses new exciting challenges for requirement engineering and can be used to significantly expand its boundaries under broader theoretical and methodological frameworks. This paper highlights these challenges and proposes a research agenda for developing methodologies for requirement elicitation and analysis for a user-centric development of computerized systems for non-human users.","PeriodicalId":176958,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131096180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 16

A Framework for Improving the Verifiability of Visual Notation Design Grounded in the Physics of Notations 基于符号物理学的提高视觉符号设计可验证性的框架

2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) Pub Date : 2017-09-26 DOI: 10.1109/RE.2017.37

D. Linden, A. Zamansky, I. Hadar

引用次数: 10

Identifying Conflicting Requirements in Systems of Systems 识别系统的系统中相互冲突的需求

2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) Pub Date : 2017-09-04 DOI: 10.1109/RE.2017.48

Thiago Viana, A. Zisman, A. Bandara

{"title":"Identifying Conflicting Requirements in Systems of Systems","authors":"Thiago Viana, A. Zisman, A. Bandara","doi":"10.1109/RE.2017.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2017.48","url":null,"abstract":"A System of Systems (SoS) is an arrangement of useful and independent sub-systems, which are integrated into a larger system. Examples are found in transport systems, nutritional systems, smart homes and smart cities. The composition of component sub-systems into an SoS enables support for complex functionalities that cannot be provided by individual sub-systems on their own. However, to realize the benefits of these functionalities it is necessary to address several software engineering chal-lenges including, but not limited to, the specification, design, construction, deployment, and management of an SoS. The various component sub-systems in an SoS environment are often concerned with distinct domains; are developed by different stake-holders under different circumstances and time; provide distinct functionalities; and are used by different stakeholders, which allow for the existence of conflicting requirements. In this paper, we present a framework to support management of emerging conflicting requirements in an SoS. In particular, we describe an approach to support identification of conflicts between resource-based requirements (i.e. requirements concerned with the con-sumption of different resources). In order to illustrate and evaluate the work, we use an example of a pilot study of an IoT SoS ecosystem designed to support food security at different levels of granularity, namely individuals, groups, cities, and nations.","PeriodicalId":176958,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116467212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 15

Requirements Engineering Since the Year One Thousand 自千年以来的需求工程

2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) Pub Date : 2017-09-04 DOI: 10.1109/RE.2017.25

R. Wieringa

引用次数: 3

Datasets from Fifteen Years of Automated Requirements Traceability Research: Current State, Characteristics, and Quality 15年自动化需求追溯研究的数据集:现状、特征和质量

2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RE.2017.80

W. Zogaan, Palak Sharma, Mehdi Mirakhorli, V. Arnaoudova

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引用次数: 21

What do Support Analysts Know About Their Customers? On the Study and Prediction of Support Ticket Escalations in Large Software Organizations 支持分析师对他们的客户了解多少?大型软件组织支持票升级的研究与预测

2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RE.2017.61

Lloyd Montgomery, D. Damian

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引用次数: 18

Requirements Elicitation: A Look at the Future Through the Lenses of the Past 需求引出:通过过去的镜头看未来

2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) Pub Date : 2017-09-01 DOI: 10.1109/RE.2017.35

P. Spoletini, Alessio Ferrari

引用次数: 16