This paper presents an integrated approach of basing requirements engineering on semantic technologies. First, the general approach of semantifying requirements and the underlying ontology are introduced. Second, tools that support requirements elicitation, development, analysis, and exchange on the basis of the semantic foundation are described. Semantic interoperability, linked data, and a shared conceptual foundation become increasingly important prerequisites in software development projects that are characterized by spatial dispersion, large numbers of stakeholders, and heterogeneous development tools. Founding distributed software development on semantic web technologies seems promising in order to serve these demands. The SoftWiki 1 project focuses specifically on semantic collaboration with respect to requirements engineering. Potentially very large and spatially distributed groups of stakeholders, including developers, experts, managers, and average users, shall be enabled to collect, semantically enrich, classify, and aggregate software requirements. Semantic web technologies are used to support collaboration as well as interlinking and exchange of requirements data. In the following, we will present the general approach and the tools we are currently developing in this context.
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Lohmann, S., Heim, P., Auer, S., Dietzold, S., & Riechert, T. (2008). Semantifying Requirements Engineering – The SoftWiki Approach Semantification of Requirements. Knowledge Organization, 3–6.
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