Feature-oriented stigmergy-based collaborative requirements modeling:an exploratory approach for requirements elicitation and evolution based on web-enabled collective intelligence

摘要

Compared with traditional software applications,the requirements problem of Internetware applications exhibits a set of new characteristics that cannot be resolved by traditional engineer-centered face-to-face requirements methods.In this paper,we present an exploratory approach to the requirements elicitation and evolution problem of Internetware applications,based on the concept of web-enable collective intelligence,to accommodate the situation of large-scale user communities of Internetware applications with diverse and constantly evolving requirements.In particular,we propose a feature-oriented stigmergy-based collaborative requirements modeling method that combines feature-oriented requirements modeling with web-enabled stigmergy-based collaboration to support large-scale collaborative requirements eliciting and evolving activities for Internetware applications.Two experiments are introduced to show the feasibility and effectiveness of this approach.