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Understanding User Requirements Iceberg: Semantic Based Approach

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Model and Data Engineering

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The proliferation of extended enterprises requires softwares to support heterogeneous and autonomous users partners’ sub-systems. In this context, early studies have neglected users requirements definition step in the development process, which was considered as the cause of a large failure rate of the developed softwares. To address this deficiency, considerable research has been devoted to software development life-cycle by adding a new phase called users requirement collection and analysis, which delivers the requirements document (\(\mathcal {RD}\)). However, in the context of Global Information System (\(\mathcal {GIS}\)), the grouping of partners \(\mathcal {RD}\)s in one global \(\mathcal {RD}\) suffers from three drawbacks: the unification of vocabularies including the used terms and concepts (universe of discourse) and the unification of the used formalisms. Additionally, relationships between requirements must be efficiently defined and identified. We propose in this paper a complete requirements framework that manages the cited issues, offering a scalable approach for \(\mathcal {RD}\) definition in the context of \(\mathcal {GIS}\) development. The feasibility and effectiveness of the approach is tested using \(\mathcal {LUBM}\) (http://swat.cse.lehigh.edu/projects/lubm/) ontology benchmark, EuroWordnet (http://www.illc.uva.nl/EuroWordNet/) and the courses management system (\(\mathcal {CMS}\)) (http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~goknila/sosym/) requirements document.

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  1. LIAS/ISAE-ENSMA, Poitiers University, Poitiers, France

    Zouhir Djilani & Selma Khouri

  2. National High School of Computer Science, Algiers, Algeria

    Selma Khouri

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Djilani, Z., Khouri, S. (2015). Understanding User Requirements Iceberg: Semantic Based Approach. In: Bellatreche, L., Manolopoulos, Y. (eds) Model and Data Engineering. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9344. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23781-7_24

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