Goal-directed requirements acquisition
6IWSSD Selected Papers of the Sixth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design
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Requirements engineering
Steps toward a partnership: ethnography and system design
Requirements engineering
ROADMAP: extending the gaia methodology for complex open systems
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Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design
Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design
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AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
Goal-directed elaboration of requirements for a meeting scheduler: problems and lessons learnt
RE '95 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
Towards Modeling and Reasoning Support for Early-Phase Requirements Engineering
RE '97 Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering
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Developing multiagent systems: The Gaia methodology
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Developing Intelligent Agent Systems: A Practical Guide
Developing Intelligent Agent Systems: A Practical Guide
Commercial applications of agents: lessons, experiences and challenges
AAMAS '06 Proceedings of the fifth international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
The Knowledge Engineering Review
Research Directions in Requirements Engineering
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
ER '07 Tutorials, posters, panels and industrial contributions at the 26th international conference on Conceptual modeling - Volume 83
Engineering the social: The role of shared artifacts
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling
The Art of Agent-Oriented Modeling
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CEEMAS'03 Proceedings of the 3rd Central and Eastern European conference on Multi-agent systems
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One advantage of using the agent paradigm for software engineering is that the concepts used for high-level modelling, such as roles, goals, organisations, and interactions, are accessible to many different stakeholders. Existing research demonstrates that including the stakeholders in the modelling of systems for as long as possible improves the quality of the development and final system because inconsistencies and incorrect behaviour are more likely to be detected early in the development process. In this paper, we propose three changes to the typical requirements engineering process found in AOSE methodologies, with the aim of including stakeholders over the requirements engineering process, effectively using stakeholders as modellers. These changes are: withholding design commitment, delaying the definition of the system boundary, and delaying the stakeholder "sign-off" of the requirements specification. We discuss our application of these changes to a project with an industry partner, and present anecdotal evidence to suggest that these changes can be effective in maintaining stakeholder involvement.