The Ability of Engineers to Extract Requirements from Models
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Authors
Giachetti, Ronald
Holness, Karen
McGuire, Mollie
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Date of Issue
2018
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2018
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IEEE
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Abstract
The Department of Defense is adopting model-based
systems engineering in which models will replace the extensive
amounts of documentation generated in developing a new system.
This research examines how this shift from textual description
of requirements to a model-based description will effect the
requirements engineering process. Specifically, we ask whether
engineers will be able to extract the same understanding of the
system requirements from the models as they can from the traditional textual requirements specifications. This paper describes
the theory and related work on the understandability of models
and the performance of cognitive tasks such as requirements
engineering. Our research into model representation is part of
a larger effort on a theory of model relativity postulating that
models affect how we think about the system of interest. In this
paper, we present our exploratory research studies, discuss our
research protocol, describe the research plan, and present the
current status of our study.
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RE.2018.00-19
2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference
2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference
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Systems Engineering (SE)
Information Systems (IS)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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6 P.
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Giachetti, Ronald, Karen Holness, and Mollie McGuire. "The Ability of Engineers to Extract Requirements from Models." 2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE). IEEE, 2018.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.