This paper describes the collection of the H1 Corpus of children’s weekly writing over the course of 3 months in 2nd and 3rd grades, aged 7-11. The texts were collected within the normal classroom setting by the teacher. Texts of children whose parents signed the permission to donate the texts to science were collected and transcribed. The corpus consists of the elicitation techniques, an overv...

When developing an Information System (IS), organizational goals of various stakeholders are commonly in direct conflict. Furthermore, individuals often rank their private objectives well over their management's directions. Recognising and reconciling all these diverse goals, and reaching agreement among the stakeholders, are prerequisite to establishing project cooperation and collaboration. T...

In many practical contexts where a number agents have so as to find a common decision, the votes do not come all together at the same time (for instance, when voting about a date for a meeting, it often happens that one or two participants express their preferences later than others). In such situations, we might want to preprocess the information given by the subelectorate (consisting of those...

One of the main problems of requirements elicitation is expressing customer requirements in a form that can be understood not only by requirements engineers but also by noncomputer professional customers and users. The usual choice for expressing elicited requirements is natural language, since it is frequently the only common language to all participants. Problems of natural language are well–...

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The work reported in this paper is part of a project simulating maintenance operations in an automotive engine production facility. The decisions made by the people in charge of these operations form a crucial element of this simulation. Eliciting this knowledge is problematic. One approach is to use the simulation model as part of the knowledge elicitation process. This paper reports on the ex...

This paper describes a methodology and a model-based approach for supporting the requirements elicitation and validation work in the ATHENA project. Numerous interoperability requirements have been gathered by four industrial partners and these requirements are validated against interoperability issues. The process of obtaining requirements from industrial users and developing solutions for the...

This paper reports on a methodological experiment, which was carried out in two large collaborative research projects targeted at innovative products. Video material was produced in order to visualize the project vision and solution ideas, and this video material was used in focus group discussions. The paper describes the process, the experiences gained and gives a number of hints which may be...

Perspective Based Reading (PBR) provides Engineers with concise statements directing their review of documents related to a project. While research shows the benefit of using techniques such as PROPER,Little effort has been directed to the application of PBR during Requirements Elicitation. This paper discusses the benefit of bringing these same techniques to the beginning of projects where the...

Distance between stakeholders working on a global software development project introduces problems in communication and control. Processes like requirements elicitation, where communication is crucial, have to be specially rethought in order to deal with these problems. As the requirement elicitation is a human-centred process, we propose using techniques from the field of cognitive psychology ...