Using Domain Ontology as Domain Knowledge for Requirements Elicitation

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Title: Using Domain Ontology as Domain Knowledge for Requirements Elicitation
Author(s): Haruhiko Kaiya and Motoshi Saeki.
Source: In Proc. of 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'06), pp. 189-198, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, Sep. 11-15 2006. IEEE CS.

Domain knowledge is one of crucial factors to get a great success in requirements elicitation of high quality, and only domain experts, not requirements analysts, have it. We propose a new requirements elicitation method ORE (Ontology based Requirements Elicitation), where a domain ontology can be used as domain knowledge. In our method, a domain ontology plays a role on semantic domain which gives meanings to requirements statements by using a semantic function. By using inference rules on the ontology and a quality metrics on the semantic function, an analyst can be navigated which requirements should be added for improving completeness of the current version of the requirements and/or which requirements should be deleted from the current version for keeping consistency. We define this process as a method and evaluate it by an experimental case study of software music players.

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BibTeX Entry:

@Inproceedings(,
    Title="{Using Domain Ontology as Domain Knowledge for Requirements Elicitation}",
    Author="Haruhiko Kaiya and Motoshi Saeki",
    Booktitle="Proc. of 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'06)",
    Year="2006",
    Pages="189-198",
    Organization="",
    Publisher="IEEE CS",
    Address="Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, USA",
    Month="Sep."
)