Objective:  Presents a business goal-driven requirements engineering approach for IT to better understand system requirements, as requirements are generated from the business goals and provide assistance for analyzing business goals quickly.

Requirements Engineering (RE) contains many different practices to elicit, communicate and document customer requirements. Developers need to understand these requirements properly in order to achieve project success by fulfilling them [1]. A prerequisite for developers’ understanding of relevant requirements and their meaning is successful requirements communication [2]. Therefore, the selecte...

The GCommS (Group Communication Support for Distributed Communication Systems) project at Lancaster University is concerned with the support of group communication, especially for applications employing multimedia information. In this paper we introduce a study on requirements of multimedia group applications. Group support in existing systems is discussed. Examples to illustrate group applicat...

394. Influence of febrile neutropenia on the pharmacokinetics and dosage requirements of vancomycin Shouichi Shiotsuka; Tohru Takata, MD, PhD; Atsushi Togawa; Yasushi Takamatsu; Kazuo Tamura, MD; Fukuoka University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan; Dep of Infection Control, Fukuoka University Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan; Fukuoka University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan; Fukuoka University School of M...

This paper tests a hypothesis about implementing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in a university environment. CRM was designed for private sector companies for the management of customer relationships in the preand post-sales cycles. Our hypothesis is that CRM can be configured to meet the requirements of a university recruiting environment. We tested the hypothesis by actually configuri...

Software requirements elicitation is a difficult process with many existing problems, and no single elicitation method solves all these problems. We introduce a new way of looking at the requirements elicitation process. Our model shows the requirements elicitation problem as a process of merging the users’ wants and the users’ needs into the same entity. In the context of our model, existing p...

1 Singapore University of Technology and Design 2 Nanyang Technological University 3 The University of Auckland 4 National University of Singapore Abstract. Web service composition makes use of existing Web services to build complex business processes. Non-functional requirements are crucial for the Web service composition. In order to satisfy non-functional requirements when composing a Web se...