A VIEWPOINTS MODELING FRAMEWORK BASED ON EPISTEMIC LOGIC

Min Jiang, Guoqing Wu

2006

Abstract

The approach of viewpoints-oriented requirement engineering hopes that stakeholders in a complex system should describe it from their own perspectives and then generate a more complete requirement specification. Just because of this characteristic, several stakeholders may describe a same problem. These overlapping requirements are the source of inconsistency. This paper puts forward a requirements modeling framework based on problem-domain and viewpoints. We interpret and reason it with epistemic logic in order to make requirements more structured and help stakeholders formally discover those inconsistent overlapping requirements.

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Jiang M. and Wu G. (2006). A VIEWPOINTS MODELING FRAMEWORK BASED ON EPISTEMIC LOGIC . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-43-6, pages 435-439. DOI: 10.5220/0002444104350439


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@conference{iceis06,
author={Min Jiang and Guoqing Wu},
title={A VIEWPOINTS MODELING FRAMEWORK BASED ON EPISTEMIC LOGIC},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={435-439},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002444104350439},
isbn={978-972-8865-43-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - A VIEWPOINTS MODELING FRAMEWORK BASED ON EPISTEMIC LOGIC
SN - 978-972-8865-43-6
AU - Jiang M.
AU - Wu G.
PY - 2006
SP - 435
EP - 439
DO - 10.5220/0002444104350439