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Title: Identifying Requirements Gaps among Stakeholders by using Goal Oriented Analysis
Author(s): Daisuke Shinbara, Jinichi Kawano, Haruhiko Kaiya, and Motoshi Saeki.
Source: In Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'04), pp. 219-234, Riga, Latvia, Jun. 2004. Essener Informatik Beitrage.

Note: post workshop proceedings was distributed in Jan. 2005.

We introduce a technique so as to identify requirements gaps among stakeholders, and validate the technique through experiments. We use an extended version of goal-oriented requirements elicitation method and its supporting tool, called AGORA(Attributed Goal Oriented Analysis). We define requirements gaps on a requirement among stakeholders as the fol lowing two types; one happens by different interpretations of stakeholders, and another happens by its different evaluation of preferences. We can detect such gaps by preference matrices in AGORA because such matrices represent each stakeholder's preference and estimation of other stakeholders' preferences. We developed a supporting tool for AGORA method as a groupware. Through the analysis of the experiments' results, we found that gaps among stakeholders could be detected by focusing on preference matrices, and our tool was useful.
BibTeX Entry: 
@Inproceedings(,
    Title="{Identifying Requirements Gaps among Stakeholders by using Goal Oriented Analysis}",
    Author="Daisuke Shinbara and Jinichi Kawano and Haruhiko Kaiya and Motoshi Saeki",
    Booktitle="Proceedings of the 10th Anniversary 
               International Workshop on Requirements Engineering: 
               Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ'04)",
    Year="2004",
    Pages="219-234",
    Publisher="Essener Informatik Beitrage",
    Address="Riga, Latvia",
    Month="Jun.",
    Isdn="3-922602-91-6"    
)
Related Paper(s): Sep. 2002, Mar. 2002 in Japanese