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Requirements engineering and enterprise architecture-based software discovery and reuse

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Organizations’ business processes need to be adapted in response to changing internal and external environments, which are becoming increasingly complex. We target in this research work the exploitation of a software capability profile based on requirements engineering and enterprise architecture to respond to stakeholder requirements and efficiently reuse existing technical solutions. We propose in this work an exploitation methodology based on the alignment of enterprise architecture actions with a requirement engineering process. These latter evolve together helping to investigate the highest compatibility of the desired functionalities and their related constraints. Our contribution aims to produce a ready-to-use application based on the defined requirements and the selected software capability profiles for accelerating business application development. Implementation and a case study are proposed to demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach.

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This paper presents work developed in the scope of the project vf-OS. This project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 723710. The content of this paper does not reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Responsibility for the information and views expressed in this paper lies entirely with the authors.

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Belfadel, A., Laval, J., Bonner Cherifi, C. et al. Requirements engineering and enterprise architecture-based software discovery and reuse. Innovations Syst Softw Eng 18, 39–60 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11334-021-00423-5

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