Requirements Engineering for Control Systems

In this paper, we report on the application of i* to the combined capture of control system and software requirements in the context of software-intensive controllers for engines in the automotive domain. Our work has revealed the need to explicitly represent concrete domain knowledge. Revolving around the notion of “domain models”, several contributions have been made: a domain model-based approach to requirements capture to speed up the modeling process, a model-based similarity search to support reuse, advanced support to cope with the evolution of domain knowledge (and thus domain models), and the integration into the further development by establishing a transformation link toward mathematically-founded tools such as Matlab/Simulink.