Abstract The Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) was developed over the last two decades
by consistently putting together theories from areas such as formal ontology in philosophy …

Blockchain is an emergent technology and has the potential to replace the intermediaries in
the asset transaction business. This is the reason many companies have started adopting …

The use of Requirements at Runtime (RRT) is an emerging research area. Many methods
and frameworks that make use of requirements models during software execution can be …

Dysfunctional analysis is an essential and demanding task in the early development stages
of safety-critical systems (SCSs). Nevertheless, current practices present several drawbacks …

Sustainability in systems refers to applying sustainable principles and practices to create
more resilient, efficient, and equitable systems that promote the well-being of people and the …

Abstract Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering (GORE) gained prominence by covering
some of the limitations of traditional Requirements Engineering (RE). As a result, many …

Résumé Semantic interpretation of a knowledge domain is usually required to provide and
formalize its common vocabulary. This task is challenging in the context of Safety Critical …

Ontology has many applications to engineering but is not easily taken up by engineers. For
example, specifying products in space and time together (four dimensions) enables more …

Requirement engineering (RE) is the first track in the course of software development that
represents and analyses the problem domain for suitable solutions. This improves the …

Goal-oriented requirements variability modelling considers both the intentions, which are
captured as goals in goal models, and the preferences of different stakeholders as the main …