A Domain-Independent Ontology for Non-Functional Requirements

Authors:
Glen Dobson;Stephen Hall;Gerald Kotonya
Affiliations:
-;-;-
Venue:
ICEBE '07 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
Year:
2007

Citing 0
Cited 4

Visualization and comparison of architecture rationale with semantic web technologies

Journal of Systems and Software
Basis for an integrated security ontology according to a systematic review of existing proposals

Computer Standards & Interfaces
Ontology driven design of EMF metamodels and well-formedness constraints

Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on OCL and Textual Modelling
Ontology-based representation of reusable security requirements for developing secure web applications

International Journal of Internet Technology and Secured Transactions

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Despite considerable research on ontologies for representing requirements models (and metamodels), little progress has been made in using ontologies to represent non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements define the overall qualities of the resulting system. Because they are restrictions on system services, non-functional requirements are often of critical importance, and functional requirements may need to be sacrificed to meet them. However, because of their diverse nature, non-functional requirements are often expressed in non-standard domain-specific ways. This paper describes a nonfunctional requirements ontology that can be used to structure and express constraints as part of quality of service specification. The approach is illustrated using a small case-study.