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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Bridging the gap between informal, imprecise, and vague user requirements
descriptions and precise formalized specifications is the main task of requirements
engineering. Techniques such as interviews or story telling are used when requirements
engineers try to identify a user's needs. The requirements specification process
is typically done in a dialogue between users, domain experts, and requirements
engineers. In our research, we aim at automating the specification of requirements.
The idea is to distinguish between untrained users and trained users, and to exploit
domain knowledge learned from previous runs of our system. We let untrained users
provide unstructured natural language descriptions, while we allow trained users
to provide examples of behavioral descriptions. In both cases, our goal is to
synthesize formal requirements models similar to statecharts. From requirements
specification processes with trained users, behavioral ontologies are learned
which are later used to support the requirements specification process for untrained
users. Our research method is original in combining natural language processing
and search-based techniques for the synthesis of requirements specifications.
Our work is embedded in a larger project that aims at automating the whole software
development and deployment process in envisioned future software service markets.
author:
- first_name: Lorijn
full_name: van Rooijen, Lorijn
id: '58843'
last_name: van Rooijen
- first_name: Frederik Simon
full_name: Bäumer, Frederik Simon
id: '38837'
last_name: Bäumer
- first_name: Marie Christin
full_name: Platenius, Marie Christin
last_name: Platenius
- first_name: Michaela
full_name: Geierhos, Michaela
id: '42496'
last_name: Geierhos
orcid: 0000-0002-8180-5606
- first_name: Heiko
full_name: Hamann, Heiko
last_name: Hamann
- first_name: Gregor
full_name: Engels, Gregor
id: '107'
last_name: Engels
citation:
ama: 'van Rooijen L, Bäumer FS, Platenius MC, Geierhos M, Hamann H, Engels G. From
User Demand to Software Service: Using Machine Learning to Automate the Requirements
Specification Process. In: 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering
Conference Workshops (REW). Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE; 2017:379-385. doi:10.1109/REW.2017.26'
apa: 'van Rooijen, L., Bäumer, F. S., Platenius, M. C., Geierhos, M., Hamann, H.,
& Engels, G. (2017). From User Demand to Software Service: Using Machine Learning
to Automate the Requirements Specification Process. In 2017 IEEE 25th International
Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW) (pp. 379–385). Piscataway,
NJ, USA: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/REW.2017.26'
bibtex: '@inproceedings{van Rooijen_Bäumer_Platenius_Geierhos_Hamann_Engels_2017,
place={Piscataway, NJ, USA}, title={From User Demand to Software Service: Using
Machine Learning to Automate the Requirements Specification Process}, DOI={10.1109/REW.2017.26}, booktitle={2017
IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW)},
publisher={IEEE}, author={van Rooijen, Lorijn and Bäumer, Frederik Simon and Platenius,
Marie Christin and Geierhos, Michaela and Hamann, Heiko and Engels, Gregor}, year={2017},
pages={379–385} }'
chicago: 'Rooijen, Lorijn van, Frederik Simon Bäumer, Marie Christin Platenius,
Michaela Geierhos, Heiko Hamann, and Gregor Engels. “From User Demand to Software
Service: Using Machine Learning to Automate the Requirements Specification Process.”
In 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops
(REW), 379–85. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/REW.2017.26.'
ieee: 'L. van Rooijen, F. S. Bäumer, M. C. Platenius, M. Geierhos, H. Hamann, and
G. Engels, “From User Demand to Software Service: Using Machine Learning to Automate
the Requirements Specification Process,” in 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements
Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), Lisbon, Portugal, 2017, pp. 379–385.'
mla: 'van Rooijen, Lorijn, et al. “From User Demand to Software Service: Using Machine
Learning to Automate the Requirements Specification Process.” 2017 IEEE 25th
International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW), IEEE, 2017,
pp. 379–85, doi:10.1109/REW.2017.26.'
short: 'L. van Rooijen, F.S. Bäumer, M.C. Platenius, M. Geierhos, H. Hamann, G.
Engels, in: 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops
(REW), IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2017, pp. 379–385.'
conference:
end_date: 2017-09-08
location: Lisbon, Portugal
name: 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops
(REW)
start_date: 2017-09-04
date_created: 2017-10-17T12:41:10Z
date_updated: 2022-01-06T07:04:18Z
ddc:
- '000'
department:
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doi: 10.1109/REW.2017.26
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keyword:
- Software
- Unified modeling language
- Requirements engineering
- Ontologies
- Search problems
- Natural languages
language:
- iso: eng
page: 379-385
place: Piscataway, NJ, USA
project:
- _id: '1'
name: SFB 901
- _id: '9'
name: SFB 901 - Subprojekt B1
- _id: '3'
name: SFB 901 - Project Area B
publication: 2017 IEEE 25th International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops
(REW)
publication_identifier:
eisbn:
- '978-1-5386-3488-2 '
isbn:
- 978-1-5386-3489-9
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: 'From User Demand to Software Service: Using Machine Learning to Automate the
Requirements Specification Process'
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