10th International Workshop on Database & Expert Systems Applications
Requirements Engineering: Problem Domain Knowledge Capture and the Deliberation Process Support
Florence, Italy
September 01-September 03
ISBN: 0-7695-0281-4
This paper proposes a framework for group conversation support of the group problem solving and decision making activity involved during requirements interpretation and analysis in a typical information technology implementation project. Requirements interpretation and analysis is a crucial Requirements Engineering activity. It involves interpretive work with an intensive knowledge exchange process in informal language. The framework suggested here comprises of activity domain relevant discussion primitives that form the substantial context surrounding any issue or requirement and certain recurrently observed conversation patterns in the domain. The conversation support using this framework would lead to problem domain knowledge capture and maintenance, some form of pretraceability and decision rationale capture. It would also enable more complete discussion of the requirement or the problem at hand, by way of providing contextual help during discussion time.
Index Terms:
Requirements Engineering, Knowledge Base, decision rationale, argumentation schemes
Citation:
Sudeep Mallick, S. Krishna, "Requirements Engineering: Problem Domain Knowledge Capture and the Deliberation Process Support," dexa, pp.392, 10th International Workshop on Database & Expert Systems Applications, 1999