The path from conceptualization of a good idea to its widespread use in industry is usually long, complicated, and fraught with peril. Too often, research justified as satisfying the needs of industry begins with a wrong or simplified understanding of industry’s problems. Even given a real solution to a real problem, successful transfer of that solution into practice depends on many other facto...

Ralf Fahney, Andrea Herrmann, Rüdiger Weißbach Unabhängiger Berater für Requirements Engineering und Projektmanagement, 82041 Oberhaching bei München, [email protected] Universität Heidelberg, Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, Lehrstuhl Software Engineering, 69120 Heidelberg, [email protected] Lehrbeauftragter an der Fachhochschule Hamburg, IT Manager bei einem Finanzdiens...

The importance and the real potential of the Requirements Engineering is now being well recognized. A series of reversed as well as assorted researches are underway particularly on ‘ways to incorporate security right from the beginning’. Researchers are doing excellent work in this area. In this paper, we review current Secure Requirements Engineering (SRE) research and try to identify current ...

Requirements engineering for technical systems involves an intricate interplay of conceptual synthesis of alternative requirements and design configurations, preliminary impact analysis of these alternatives using complex simulations and multimedia visualizations, and human decision-making based on goal trade-offs. Requirements traceability in such settings must be both productand process-orien...

In light of the 40th jubilee of Requirements Engineering (RE), roughly 40 experts met in Switzerland to discuss where our discipline stands today [1]. 40 years after RE was acknowledged for the first time as an independent discipline in an issue of the Transactions of Software Engineering, a strong and (more or less) self-confident research community has emerged and contributed a variety of too...

This paper presents a detailed Requirements Engineering process for the development of semantic applications. It presents the activities for requirements elicitation and analysis and shows how to follow these activities in an example case study. To facilitate its use by software engineers that are not experts in semantic technologies, several resources are provided, namely a comprehensive colle...

A major challenge in requirements engineering is to analyze the stakeholders preferences. Software projects are usually described by a large set of attributes. By varying the values of these attributes, the project could potentially be realized in various different ways. The attributes have to be chosen in order to meet the stakeholders expectations. Therefore one needs to know the utility of a...