Recent Requirements Engineering research, recognises that successful system development relies upon the ability to model and understand the intentional structure of the organisational and business environment within which an IS is intended to operate. The importance of establishing and maintaining explicit links between information systems requirements and business goals is further emphasised b...

In this paper, we review current requirements engineering (RE) research and identify future research directions suggested by emerging software needs. First, we overview the state of the art in RE research. The research is considered with respect to technologies developed to address specific requirements tasks, such as elicitation, modeling, and analysis. Such a review enables us to identify mat...

Consensus building is essential in aligning multiple stakeholder viewpoints which are commonly emerging during the process of requirements elicitation, analysis and validation [15]. In fact, agreement among diverse groups of stakeholders is deemed prerequisite to establishing project cooperation and collaboration. While individuals frequently rank the importance of their personal goals over the...

Contribution structures offer a way to model the network of people who have participated in the requirements engineering process. They further provide the opportunity to extend conventional forms of artifactbased requirements traceability with the traceability of contributing personnel. In this paper, we describe a case study that investigated the modelling and use of contribution structures in...

The need to understand the social context within which work to be supported by computer-based systems takes place is broadly recognised within the RE community. Ethnographic studies have been used in particular to inform the requirements process from a social perspective. To make this accessible to requirements engineers, work in this area has focused on how to integrate and communicate ethnogr...

The paper discusses difference in the requirements gather processes between a local team in software development and a global software development team. The paper highlights the cultural differences between a uniform cultural team and a multicultural team and argues that the communication issues that arise are inevitably associated with culture and geography. The second major issue raised in th...

Requirements engineering (RE) is concerned with the elicitation of the goals to be achieved by the system envisioned, the operationalization of such goals into specifications of services and constraints, and the assignment of responsibilities for the resulting requirements to agents such as humans, devices, and software. Getting high-quality requirements is difficult and critical. Recent survey...

In this paper we argue that the industrial development of interactive systems has to recognise the social dimension of work if these systems are to fully meet the real needs of their users. Under current approaches this depends on whether an individual requirements engineer implicitly applies a user-centred approach, recognises the importance of cooperation and is sufficiently sympathetic and i...

The Goal Based Requirements Analysis Tool (GBRAT) is designed to support goal-based requirements analysis. The tool provides procedural support for the identi cation, elaboration, re nement and organization of goals to specify the requirements for software based information systems. GBRAT employs interactive Web browser technology to support the collaborative nature of requirements engineering.

This paper aims to present and formalize the foundations of a modeling and checking framework for system requirements management. It is illustrated by the study of interoperability requirements having to be respected all along collaborative (private or public) processes.