Influencing Requirements Traceability Practice R equirements traceability is viewed as a measure of system quality and is mandated by many standards governing the development of systems (for example, MIL–STD-498). Though the importance and role of traceability in supporting systems development have been long recognized, there are wide variations in the quality and usefulness of the practice [7]...

Software developers have used agents as a way to understand, model, and develop complex systems more naturally. Traceability has been recognized by many as an important strategy for developing and maintaining high quality software. Reference models for supporting traceability information have been proposed in the literature. However, none was specifically tailored for agent-oriented systems. In...

Traceability has become an essential business function to consistently supply quality and safe food products to consumers. However, it has been not rare that the efforts in traceability are separately made from routine operations management decisions. In this paper, an integrated optimisation model is developed in which the product safety related traceability factor is incorporated with operati...

The key role of models in Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) provides a new landscape for dealing with traceability. However, despite the certain maturity reached by some MDE tools, providing efficient views of traceability data is still in its early stages. To contribute in this direction, this work introduces the visualization mechanisms provided by iTrace, a framework for the management of trace...

Appropriate description and implementation of internal part traceability in manufacturing is a complex task. Accurate and real-time traceability from a part to a manufacture, storage, or transport issue is essential to efficient and high-quality operations. With the increasing amount of machine status and product quality information coming from the manufacturing lines, a question arises. When t...

This paper presents a LabVIEW application for real time data acquisition for all components of a production system, respecting traceability requirements for a modern digital manufacturing environment. The paper focus on a supply chain which has several sub processes and then we focus on the limitations and problems and introduce a traceability system by combination of horizontal and vertical tr...

Product traceability is a tool for realising specific goals, such as improved food safety or logisitic optimisation. FoodPrint, a methodological design framework for traceability systems, systematically defines the traceability objectives, and derives design objectives from collective goals of all relevant actors in a chain. During system analysis and design, areas of attention are Process, Inf...

Traceability is today considered an essential requirement for the food value chain due to the need to provide consumers with accurate information in the event of food safety recalls, to provide assurance with regard the source and production systems for food products and in certain countries to comply with government legislation. Within an individual business traceability can be quite simple to...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology promises to revolutionize various areas in supply chain. Recently, many researchers have investigated on how to improve the ability to track and trace a specific product along the supply chain in terms of both effectiveness and efficiency with the help of this technology. To enable traceability over the entire lifecycle a robust and seamless trac...

[Context and motivation] Safety critical software systems pervade almost every facet of our lives. We rely on them for safe air and automative travel, healthcare diagnosis and treatment, power generation and distribution, factory robotics, and advanced assistance systems for special-needs consumers. [Question/Problem] Delivering demonstrably safe systems is di cult, so certification and regulat...