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CONCEPTUAL MODEL FOR (SEMI-) AUTOMATED DERIVATION OF EVALUATION CRITERIA IN REQUIREMENTS MODELLING

Part of: Design Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2020

D. Horber ,
B. Schleich  and
S. Wartzack
D. Horber*
Affiliation:
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nu¨rnberg, Germany
B. Schleich
Affiliation:
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nu¨rnberg, Germany
S. Wartzack
Affiliation:
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nu¨rnberg, Germany
*
*horber@mfk.fau.de

Abstract

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Requirements act as a limitation of the solution space, which represents the stakeholders’ needs and guides the whole product development process. Therefore, forgotten requirements can lead to wrong decisions when using them as a basis for decision-making. This contribution introduces a novel approach to link the requirement and evaluation criteria models to address this problem. For setting up those criteria consistently, the requirements are classified using natural language processing and derived by a ruleset based on a developed mapping between requirement classes and criteria types.

Keywords

requirements managementdecision makingdesign evaluationnatural language processing

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Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference , Volume 1 , May 2020 , pp. 937 - 946
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