Architecture for the use of synergies between knowledge engineering and requirements engineering

  • Authors:

  • José Del Sagrado;Isabel M. Del Águila;Francisco J. Orellana

  • Affiliations:

  • Dpt. Languages and Computation, University of Almería, Spain;Dpt. Languages and Computation, University of Almería, Spain;Dpt. Languages and Computation, University of Almería, Spain

  • Venue:
  • CAEPIA'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Advances in artificial intelligence: spanish association for artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The application of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the processes of Software Engineering is achieving good results in those activities that require the use of expert knowledge. Within Software Engineering, the activities related to requirements become a suitable target for these techniques, since a good or bad execution of these tasks has a strong impact in the quality of the final software product. Hence, a tool to support the decision makers during these activities is highly desired. This work presents a three-layer architecture, which provides a seamless integration between Knowledge Engineering and Requirement Engineering. The architecture is instantiated into a CARE (Computer-Aided Engineering Requirement) tool that integrates some Artificial Intelligence techniques: Requisites, a Bayesian network used to validate the specification of the requirements of a project, and metaheuristic techniques (simulated annealing, genetic algorithm and an ant colony system) to the selection of the requirements that have to be included into the final software product.