@inproceedings{b5862dfc2c7f437e8a650e5c8e6e76f5,
title = "Agile requirements evolution via paraconsistent reasoning",
abstract = "Innovative companies need an agile approach for the engineering of their product requirements, to rapidly respond to and exploit changing conditions. The agile approach to requirements must nonetheless be systematic, especially with respect to accommodating legal and nonfunctional requirements. This paper examines how to support a combination of lightweight, agile requirements which can still be systematically modeled, analyzed and changed. We propose a framework, RE-KOMBINE, which is based on a propositional language for requirements modeling called Techne. We define operations on Techne models which tolerate the presence of inconsistencies in the requirements. This paraconsistent reasoning is vital for supporting delayed commitment to particular design solutions. We evaluate these operations with an industry case study using two well-known formal analysis tools. Our evaluations show that the proposed framework scales to industry-sized requirements models, while still retaining (via propositional logic) the informality that is so useful during early requirements analysis.",
keywords = "agility, evolution, paraconsistency, requirements",
author = "Ernst, {Neil A.} and Alexander Borgida and John Mylopoulos and Jureta, {Ivan J.}",
year = "2012",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-31095-9_25",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783642310942",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
pages = "382--397",
booktitle = "Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 24th International Conference, CAiSE 2012, Proceedings",
note = "24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2012 ; Conference date: 25-06-2012 Through 29-06-2012",
}