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[Context & motivation] Stakeholders participation is recognized as a key issue in the development of useful and usable systems. The Web has given rise to a growing number of collaborative working tools that facilitated the participation of stakeholders (and especially end-users). These tools create new opportunities of practice regarding requirement elicitation. [Question/problem] Nevertheless, they result in an information overload lacking structure and semantics. Consequently, requirements analysis and selection becomes more challenging. [Principal ideas/results] In this paper, we propose an approach based on semantic web languages as well as concept lattices to identify relevant groups of stakeholders depending on their past participation. [Contribution] These groups can be used to enable facilitated decision-making and handling of requirements. We detail the different steps and the possible configurations, using an example inspired by a collaborative software development environment.
This work was supported by the DreamIT Foundation - University of Nice Sophia Antipolis.
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Azmeh, Z., Mirbel, I., Crescenzo, P. (2013). Highlighting Stakeholder Communities to Support Requirements Decision-Making. In: Doerr, J., Opdahl, A.L. (eds) Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality. REFSQ 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37422-7_14
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