Towards Unification of Requirements Engineering Approaches using Semantics-based Process

Imed Eddine Saidi, Taoufiq Dkaki, Nacer Eddine Zarour, Pierre-Jean Charrel

2013

Abstract

In Requirements Engineering, there exist different kinds of approaches such as goal-oriented, viewpoint-oriented and scenario-oriented approaches to specify companies’ needs. These companies use these different approaches to elicit, specify, analyse and validate their requirements in different contexts. The globalization and the rapid development of information technologies sometimes require companies to work together in order to achieve common objectives as quickly as possible. In this paper, we propose a unified requirements engineering meta-model which allows cooperation in the requirements engineering process between heterogeneous systems. This meta-model is based on the abstraction of different kinds of approaches to benefit from all advantages that already exist in the other requirements engineering approaches while taking into account interoperability.

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Eddine Saidi I., Dkaki T., Eddine Zarour N. and Charrel P. (2013). Towards Unification of Requirements Engineering Approaches using Semantics-based Process . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-75-4, pages 443-450. DOI: 10.5220/0004623804430450


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@conference{kmis13,
author={Imed Eddine Saidi and Taoufiq Dkaki and Nacer Eddine Zarour and Pierre-Jean Charrel},
title={Towards Unification of Requirements Engineering Approaches using Semantics-based Process},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={443-450},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004623804430450},
isbn={978-989-8565-75-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2013)
TI - Towards Unification of Requirements Engineering Approaches using Semantics-based Process
SN - 978-989-8565-75-4
AU - Eddine Saidi I.
AU - Dkaki T.
AU - Eddine Zarour N.
AU - Charrel P.
PY - 2013
SP - 443
EP - 450
DO - 10.5220/0004623804430450