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Environment Modeling-Based Requirements Engineering for Software Intensive Systems provides a new and promising approach for engineering the requirements of software-intensive systems, presenting a systematic, promising approach to identifying, clarifying, modeling, deriving, and validating the requirements of software-intensive systems from well-modeled environment simulations. In addition, the book presents a new view of software capability, i.e. the effect-based software capability in terms of environment modeling.

Provides novel and systematic methodologies for engineering the requirements of software-intensive systems
Describes ontologies and easily-understandable notations for modeling software-intensive systems
Analyzes the functional and non-functional requirements based on the properties of the software surroundings
Provides an essential, practical guide and formalization tools for the task of identifying the requirements of software-intensive systems
Gives system analysts and requirements engineers insight into how to recognize and structure the problems of developing software-intensive systems

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1. Preface 2. Requirements Engineering: State of Art 3. Software Intensive Systems and the Challenges to Requirements Engineering 4. Principles, Conceptual Framework and Process 5. Environment Modelling and System Requirements Identification 6. Software Functionality Identification and Specification 7. Environment Related Non-functional Properties Analysis 8. Concern about Self-adaptation 9. Conclusion 10. Index

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Jin, Zhi
Prof. Zhi Jin is a full professor at Peking University. Her research interests include knowledge-based requirements engineering. She has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals and conferences in knowledge engineering and requirements engineering and related topics. She is a published author having written two books; Domain Modeling-Based Software Engineering: A Formal Approach (ISBN: 0-7923-7889-X, Kluwer Academic Publishers) and a computer science textbook in Chinese published by Science Press. She has years of working experience in ontology engineering, knowledge-based requirements engineering, and service-oriented modelling

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