Formalising and automating the elicitation and reconciliation of requirements from multiple stakeholders [ 2002-01-01 - 2004-06-30 ]

Research Grant

Researchers: Deborah Richards (Chief Investigator)

Brief description Formalising and automating the elicitation and reconciliation of requirements from multiple stakeholders. It is well recognised that requirements specifications are often error-prone and that it is much cheaper to detect and fix these errors early in the software development life cycle than later. A major problem with requirements determination is that each and every stakeholder has his/her own representation of the enterprise reality. This project seeks to take these views and use set-theoretical techniques from Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to automatically generate and compare the underlying conceptual models. A process model based on FCA has been proposed which we will extend and empirically evaluate in this project. The result will be a more rigorous and yet pragmatic approach to requirements engineering which offers the greatest economic leverage.

Funding Amount $50,000

Funding Scheme Discovery Projects

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