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Learning organizational knowledge: an evolutionary proposal for requirements engineering

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Carmen Maidantchik,

Mariano Montoni,

Gleison SantosAuthors Info & Claims

SEKE '02: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering

Pages 151 - 157

https://doi.org/10.1145/568760.568788

Published: 15 July 2002 Publication History

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The rapid deployment of high quality commercial technology often results in organizational reengineering. These changes reflect in different software engineering aspects, as the increase of software complexity. Within heterogeneous environments, due to the variety of users classes and their geographical distribution, a common understanding of the domain knowledge can be a hard task and would lead to a high uncertainty of the knowledge of real needs. User centered design methods along with knowledge engineering techniques proved to be suitable in such cases. This paper describes an evolutionary proposal for requirements engineering of a system to support the management of telecommunication networks. The proposal enhanced and speeded the software development, achieving a better acceptance of the system since the software group managed to efficiently acquire the organizational knowledge.

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Javed BMinhas S(2010)Process Support for Requirements Engineering Activities in Global Software Development: A Literature Based Evaluation2010 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering10.1109/CISE.2010.5676833(1-6)Online publication date: Dec-2010
https://doi.org/10.1109/CISE.2010.5676833
Safayeni FDuimering PZheng KDerbentseva NPoile CRan B(2008)Requirements engineering in new product developmentCommunications of the ACM10.1145/1325555.132557051:3(77-82)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1325555.1325570
Guo JSun C(2003)Measurement models for survivability and competitiveness of very large E-marketplaceProceedings of the 2003 international conference on Computational science: PartII10.5555/1760988.1761083(802-811)Online publication date: 2-Jun-2003
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1760988.1761083
Guo JSun C(2003)Measurement Models for Survivability and Competitiveness of Very Large E-marketplaceComputational Science — ICCS 200310.1007/3-540-44862-4_87(802-811)Online publication date: 18-Jun-2003
https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44862-4_87

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