Agile methods fit well for software development teams in the requirements elicitation activities. It has brought challenges to organizations in adopting the existing traditional methods, as well as new ones. Design Thinking has been used as a require...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming requirements elicitation: machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and large language models (LLMs) now identify software requirements automatically from the textual data that surrounds every p...
Requirement elicitation represents one of the most vital phases in information system (IS) and software development projects. Selecting suitable elicitation techniques is critical for eliciting the correct specification in various projects. Recent st...
Requirements elicitation is a fundamental process in software engineering, essential for aligning software products with user needs and project objectives. As software projects become more complex, effective elicitation methods are vital for capturin...
In this research, we present an algorithm that leverages language-transformer technologies to automate the generation of product requirements, utilizing E-Shop consumer reviews as a data source. Our methodology combines classical natural language pro...
Market-Driven Requirements Engineering (MDRE) integrates traditional Requirements Engineering (RE) practices, such as Requirements Elicitation and requirements prioritization, with market analysis. Offering software products to an open market has bec...
Software development begins with the requirements. Misunderstandings with customers in this early phase of development result in wasted development time. This work investigates the possibility of using executable UI mockups in the initial phases of f...
Pre-trained language models with fine-tuning (FT) have achieved notable success in aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) for automatic requirements elicitation from app reviews. However, the fixed parameters during FT progress often face challenges...
The digital transformation and proliferation of social network sites (SNSs) have created new opportunities to consider digital sources to support the development of software systems. Social network sites (SNSs), such as Twitter and Facebook, can be m...
Social network services allow a large population of end-users of software products to publicly share their concerns and experiences about software systems. From a software engineering perspective, such data can be collected and analyzed to help softw...
Despite noble intentions, new technologies may have adverse effects on the resilience of the sociotechnical systems into which they are integrated. Our objective was to develop a lightweight method to elicit requirements that, if implemented, would s...
This paper presents findings from a mixed-methods study whose aim was to elicit requirements for a Future Museum ecosystem designed to connect citizen-curated museums, collections, assets, and artefacts with connected heritage experiences, including...
Technological progress, upcoming cyber-physical systems, and limited resources confront small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with the challenge of complexity management in product development projects spanning over the entire product lifecycle....
Several organizations have invested in business process automation software to improve their processes. Unstandardized processes with high variance and unstructured data encumber the requirements elicitation for business process automation software....
Information technology (IT) systems are known to promote improvements in quality and productivity of the work environments of complex and adaptive socio-technical systems that span hardware, community and software aspects. Systems development lies in...
Recently, feature extraction from user reviews has been used for requirements reuse to improve the software development process. However, research has yet to use sentiment analysis in the extraction for it to be well understood. The aim of this study...
Software applications have become a fundamental part in the daily work of modern society as they meet different needs of users in different domains. Such needs are known as software requirements (SRs) which are separated into functional (software ser...
Aircraft design and development is complex and regulated by increasingly stringent regulatory documentation. While many disciplines manage design complexity with well-established digital tools, digital transformation of the certification process rema...
Many breast cancer patients follow a self-managed treatment pathway, which may lead to gaps in the data available to healthcare professionals, such as information about patients’ everyday symptoms at home. Mobile apps have the potential to brid...
There are inherent difficulties in designing an effective Human–Machine Interface (HMI) for a first-of-its-kind system. Many leading cognitive research methods rely upon experts with prior experiences using the system and/or some type of existi...
Cyberattacks make the news daily. Systems must be appropriately secured. Cybersecurity risk analyses are more than ever necessary, but… traveling and gathering in a room to discuss the topic has become difficult due to the COVID, whilst having a cybe...
One of the main obstacles in software development projects is requirement volatility (RV), which is defined as uncertainty or changes in software requirements during the development process. Therefore, this research tries to understand the underlying...
In recent years, the growing importance of data ownership has attracted significant attention, reflecting not only its pivotal role in the evolving data-driven environment but also the complexity of addressing it across diverse contexts. The necessit...
Process-oriented requirements engineering approaches are often required to deal with the effective adaptation of existing processes in order to easily introduce new or updated requirements. Such approaches are based on the adoption of widely used not...
Vibe coding uses repeated natural-language prompts and minimal code review in large language model (LLM)-based development. Development may end before sufficient client–LLM context co-construction occurs. We propose CO-constructed SPECification...
The market for agricultural machinery is characterized by products with a high degree of maturity in the product life cycle. Consequently, current improvements in new machinery are predominantly incremental and new projects basically use solutions th...
Context and motivation: Climate change is manifested by climate variability, rising temperatures (and thus evaporation), and extreme events such as droughts and floods, which have a profound effect on the availability of natural resources, for exampl...
Requirements engineering (RE) is a significant aspect of system development stages in generating reliable software (SW). Despite RE’s decisive impact on project success, SW systems still fail since there is a perplexity in sorting out requireme...
Context: App reviews contain valuable user requirements—some stated explicitly, others implied within narratives of use—yet prior work has largely focused on explicit feedback alone. Objective: We investigate the characterization and auto...
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Medically underserved communities have limited access to effective disease management resources in the U.S. Mobile health applications (mHealth apps) offer patients a cost-effective way to monitor and self-manage their condition and to communicate wi...
It is a truism that whole energy system models underpin the development of policies for energy system decarbonisation. However, recent reviews have thrown doubt on the appropriateness of such models for addressing the multiple goals for future energy...
In software engineering, there must be clarity in communication among interested parties to elicit the requirements aimed at software development through frameworks to achieve the behaviors expected by the software. Problem: A lack of clarity in the...
HIV-1-infected individuals raise a polyclonal antibody response targeting multiple envelope glycoprotein (Env) epitopes. Interestingly, two classes of non-neutralizing CD4-induced (CD4i) antibodies, present in the majority of HIV-1-infected individua...
In terrestrial plants a basal innate immune system, pattern-triggered immunity (PTI), has evolved to limit infection by diverse microbes. The remodeling of actin cytoskeletal arrays is now recognized as a key hallmark event during the rapid host cell...
This study enhances agile development by integrating BPMN modeling with automated functional requirements elicitation. It focuses on extracting user stories and Gherkin scenarios from BPMN process models using transformation patterns and templates. A...
Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) has received a great deal of attention in recent years due to the relationship between worker comfort and productivity. Many academics have studied IEQ from both a building design and an IEQ assessment perspective....
The trustworthiness of systems that support complex collaborative business processes is an emergent property. In order to address users’ trust concerns, trustworthiness requirements of software systems must be elicited and satisfied. The aim of this...
Many systems engineering projects begin with the involvement of stakeholders to aid in decision-making processes. As an application of systems engineering, systems architecture involves the documentation of stakeholder needs gathered via elicitation...
While both whole-cell (wP) and acellular pertussis (aP) vaccines have been highly effective at reducing the global pertussis disease burden, there are concerns that compared to wP vaccination, the immune responses to aP vaccination may wane more rapi...
Like other communities, sustainability in and for software design is a grand research and development challenge. Current research focuses on eliciting the meanings of sustainability and on building approaches for its engineering and integration into...
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Background and Objectives: Utility elicitation studies for schizophrenia generate different utility values for the same health states. We reviewed utility values used in schizophrenia pharmacoeconomic evaluations and evaluated the impact of their sel...
In the domain of law and legal systems, jurisprudence principles (JPs) are considered major sources of legislative reasoning by jurisprudence scholars. Generally accepted JPs are often used to support the reasoning for a given jurisprudence case (JC)...
Privacy as a software quality is becoming more important these days and should not be underestimated during the development of software that processes personal data. The privacy goal of intervenability, in contrast to unlinkability (including anonymi...
Bayesian Belief Networks are used in many fields of application. Defining the conditional dependencies via conditional probability tables requires the elicitation of expert belief to fill these tables, which grow very large quickly. In this work, we...
Memory consolidation is a time-dependent process occurring over hours, days, or longer in different species and requires protein synthesis. An apparent exception is a memory type in Drosophila elicited by a single olfactory conditioning episode, whic...
Recurrent Staphylococcus aureus infections are common, suggesting that immunity elicited by these infections is not protective. We previously reported that S. aureus skin infection (SSTI) elicited antibody-mediated immunity against secondary SSTI in...
Tropane alkaloids (TAs) are large secondary metabolite alkaloids that find extensive applications in the synthesis of antidotes, anesthetics, antiemetics, motion sickness drugs, and antispasmodics. The current production method primarily depends on e...
Context and motivation: Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are gaining priority over other systems. The heterogeneity of these systems increases the importance of security. Both the developer and the requirement analyst must consider details of not only t...
Most currently available commercial vaccines are delivered by systemic injection. However, needle-free oral vaccine delivery is currently of great interest for several reasons, including the ability to elicit mucosal immune responses, ease of adminis...
The mere copresence of another person synchronizes physiological signals, but no study has systematically investigated the effects of the type of emotional state and the type of relationship in eliciting dyadic physiological synchrony. In this study,...
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