Towards reconciling use cases via controlled language and graphical models

Kathrin Böttger; Rolf Schwitter; Debbie Richards; Diego Mollá

doi:10.1007/3-540-36524-9_10

Towards reconciling use cases via controlled language and graphical models

Kathrin Böttger, Rolf Schwitter, Debbie Richards, Diego Mollá

School of Computing

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In requirements engineering use cases are employed to describe the flow of events and the occurrence of states in a future information system. Use cases consist of a set of scenarios each of them describing an exemplary behaviour of the system to be developed. Different stakeholders describe the steps in varying ways since they perceive the state of affairs in the application domain from different viewpoints. This results in ambiguous use cases written in natural language that use different terminology and are therefore difficult to reconcile. To solve this problem, we have developed a set of simple guidelines to rewrite use cases and scenarios in a controlled language. The sentences are translated into flat logical forms by the Prolog module of our RECOCASE system. These resulting flat logical forms are used by RECOCASE to generate graphical models for the elaboration and refinement of functional requirements between project stakeholders. As an experiment we have chosen Formal Concept Analysis to automatically represent the viewpoints of different stakeholders graphically in a concept lattice.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Web knowledge management and decision support
Subtitle of host publication	14th International Conference on Applications of Prolog, INAP 2001, Tokyo, Japan, October 20-22, 2001 : revised papers
Editors	Oskar Bartenstein, Ulrich Geske, Markus Hannebauer, Osama Yoshie
Place of Publication	Berlin; New York, NY
Publisher	Springer, Springer Nature
Pages	115-128
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9783540365242
ISBN (Print)	9783540006800
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36524-9_10
Publication status	Published - Mar 2003
Event	International Conference on Applications of Prolog (14th : 2001) - Tokyo, Japan Duration: 20 Oct 2001 → 22 Oct 2001 Conference number: 14th

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Name	Lecture notes in computer science
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Volume	2543
ISSN (Print)	1345-0980

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Conference	International Conference on Applications of Prolog (14th : 2001)
Abbreviated title	INAP 2001
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Tokyo
Period	20/10/01 → 22/10/01

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Böttger, K., Schwitter, R., Richards, D., & Mollá, D. (2003). Towards reconciling use cases via controlled language and graphical models. In O. Bartenstein, U. Geske, M. Hannebauer, & O. Yoshie (Eds.), Web knowledge management and decision support: 14th International Conference on Applications of Prolog, INAP 2001, Tokyo, Japan, October 20-22, 2001 : revised papers (pp. 115-128). (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 2543). Springer, Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36524-9_10

Böttger, Kathrin ; Schwitter, Rolf ; Richards, Debbie et al. / Towards reconciling use cases via controlled language and graphical models. Web knowledge management and decision support: 14th International Conference on Applications of Prolog, INAP 2001, Tokyo, Japan, October 20-22, 2001 : revised papers. editor / Oskar Bartenstein ; Ulrich Geske ; Markus Hannebauer ; Osama Yoshie. Berlin; New York, NY : Springer, Springer Nature, 2003. pp. 115-128 (Lecture notes in computer science).

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Böttger, K, Schwitter, R , Richards, D & Mollá, D 2003, Towards reconciling use cases via controlled language and graphical models. in O Bartenstein, U Geske, M Hannebauer & O Yoshie (eds), Web knowledge management and decision support: 14th International Conference on Applications of Prolog, INAP 2001, Tokyo, Japan, October 20-22, 2001 : revised papers. Lecture notes in computer science, vol. 2543, Springer, Springer Nature, Berlin; New York, NY, pp. 115-128, International Conference on Applications of Prolog (14th : 2001), Tokyo, Japan, 20/10/01. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36524-9_10

Towards reconciling use cases via controlled language and graphical models. / Böttger, Kathrin; Schwitter, Rolf ; Richards, Debbie et al.
Web knowledge management and decision support: 14th International Conference on Applications of Prolog, INAP 2001, Tokyo, Japan, October 20-22, 2001 : revised papers. ed. / Oskar Bartenstein; Ulrich Geske; Markus Hannebauer; Osama Yoshie. Berlin; New York, NY: Springer, Springer Nature, 2003. p. 115-128 (Lecture notes in computer science; Vol. 2543).

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Böttger K, Schwitter R , Richards D , Mollá D. Towards reconciling use cases via controlled language and graphical models. In Bartenstein O, Geske U, Hannebauer M, Yoshie O, editors, Web knowledge management and decision support: 14th International Conference on Applications of Prolog, INAP 2001, Tokyo, Japan, October 20-22, 2001 : revised papers. Berlin; New York, NY: Springer, Springer Nature. 2003. p. 115-128. (Lecture notes in computer science). doi: 10.1007/3-540-36524-9_10

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