Towards Artefact-based Requirements Engineering for Data-Centric Systems
2021 (English)In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings / [ed] Aydemir F.B.,Gralha C.,Daneva M.,Groen E.C.,Herrmann A.,Mennig P.,Abualhaija S.,Ferrari A.,Guo J.,Guizzardi R.,Horkoff J.,Perini A.,Susi A.,Breaux T.,Franch X.,Ernst N.,Paja E.,Seyff N., CEUR-WS , 2021, Vol. 2857Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Many modern software-intensive systems employ artificial intelligence / machine-learning (AI/ML) components and are, thus, inherently data-centric. The behaviour of such systems depends on typically large amounts of data processed at run-Time rendering such non-deterministic systems as complex. This complexity growth affects our understanding on needs and practices in Requirements Engineering (RE). There is, however, still little guidance on how to handle requirements for such systems effectively: What are, for example, typical quality requirements classes What modelling concepts do we rely on or which levels of abstraction do we need to consider In fact, how to integrate such concepts into approaches for a more traditional RE still needs profound investigations. In this research preview paper, we report on ongoing efforts to establish an artefact-based RE approach for the development of datacentric systems (DCSs). To this end, we sketch a DCS development process with the newly proposed requirements categories and data-centric artefacts and briefly report on an ongoing investigation of current RE challenges in industry developing data-centric systems. © 2021 CEUR-WS. All rights reserved.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
CEUR-WS , 2021. Vol. 2857
Keywords [en]
Artefact Orientation, Artificial Intelligence, Requirements Engineering, Computer software selection and evaluation, Complexity growth, Development process, Large amounts of data, Levels of abstraction, Nondeterministic systems, Quality requirements, Re challenges, Software intensive systems
National Category
Software Engineering
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-21417Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85105545636OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-21417DiVA, id: diva2:1556403
Conference
Joint Workshops of the 27th International Conference on Requirements Engineering, REFSQ 2021 - OpenRE, Posters and Tools Track, and Doctoral Symposium, Essen, Germany, 12 April 2021
Part of project
SERT- Software Engineering ReThought, Knowledge Foundation
Note
open access
2021-05-212021-05-212021-05-25Bibliographically approved