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Requirements Engineering

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Multiagent Engineering

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This chapter investigates requirements engineering (RE) for agent-based systems and in this context discusses the assumption that requirements engineering methods and tools are independent of the used technology. For this purpose, specific needs of agent-based systems that must be considered during requirements engineering are examined. As a possible approach for the fulfillment of the discussed needs, the capability of methods of goal-oriented requirements engineering (GORE) to support requirements engineering for agent-based systems is investigated.

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Bieser, T., Fürstenau, H., Otto, S., Weiß, D. (2006). Requirements Engineering. In: Kirn, S., Herzog, O., Lockemann, P., Spaniol, O. (eds) Multiagent Engineering. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32062-8_19

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