Phase 3 : Requirements Engineering Methodologies and Tools (April 2002 - present )
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Critical Assessment of Present-Day Systems Engineering Tools (e.g., DOORS and SLATE).
How do we capture and represent knowledge through requirements engineering activities?
Figure: Requirements Engineering Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
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Figure: Requirements Engineering WBS and Industry Toolset Weakensses.
(For details, see Ramesh and Jarke, 2001)
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Transfer of Semantic Web Technologies to Tools for Requirments Engineering:
What is the Minumum Level of Semantic Web Technology that can
mitigate (and hopefully overcome) limitations in present-day tools?
Figure: Requirements Engineering WBS (Create Branch) to Semantic Layer Cake (Selberg, 2002).
Figure: Requirements Engineering WBS (Use Branch) to Semantic Layer Cake (Selberg, 2002).
References
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Ramesh B., and Jarke M., "Toward Reference Models for Requirements Traceability,"
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 27., No. 1., January 2001, pp. 58-93.
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Selberg S., "Requirements Engineering and the Semantic Web,"
M.S. Thesis, Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD 20742, April 2002.
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