Knowledge Representation as the Basis for Requirements Specifications
Alexander Borgida, Rutgers University
Sol Greenspan, Schlumberger-Doll Research
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto
Publisher Summary
This chapter focuses on knowledge representations as the basis for requirements specifications. Specification of many kinds of knowledge about the world is essential to requirements engineering. Research on knowledge representation in artificial intelligence provides a wealth of relevant techniques that can be incorporated into specification languages. It is necessary to combine several kinds of modeling faculties into one language; a good modeling language should allow the designer to describe discourse entities and events ...
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