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Management of requirements inconsistency is key to the development of trustworthy software systems. But at present, although there are a lot of work on this topic, most of them are limited in treating inconsistency at the syntactic level. We still lack a systematical method for managing requirements inconsistency at the semantic level.
This paper first proposes a requirements refinement model, which suggests that interactions between software agents and their ambiences are essential to capture the semantics of requirements. We suppose that the real effect of these interactions is to make the states of entities in the ambiences changed. So, we explicitly represent requirements of a software agent as a set of state transition diagrams, each of which is for one entity in the ambiences. We argue that, based on this model, the mechanism to deal with the inconsistency at the semantic level. A domain ontology is used as an infrastructure to detect, diagnose and resolve the inconsistency.
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Zhu, X., Jin, Z. (2005). Ontology-Based Inconsistency Management of Software Requirements Specifications. In: Vojtáš, P., Bieliková, M., Charron-Bost, B., Sýkora, O. (eds) SOFSEM 2005: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3381. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30577-4_37
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