Agent-assisted Distributed Requirements Elicitation and Management

Requirements engineering (RE) is concerned with the elicitation of requirements from users (stakeholders), analysis of these requirements and the generation of a coherent specification for downstream software engineering processes. Present-day RE projects typically involve large, diverse and distributed groups of stakeholders, who specify their requirements mostly using informal notation. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of the ADREAM system which addresses these issues. We propose a novel agent-mediated architecture for the ADREAM system, a set of novel requirements elicitation strategies as well as a novel mechanism for eliciting formal descriptions of informal requirements.