Requirements engineering (RE) is an initial activity in the software engineering process that
involves many users. The involvement of various users in the RE process raises ambiguity …

Numerous visual notations are present in technical and business domains. Notations have
to be cognitively effective to ease the planning, documentation, and communication of the …

Software-intensive cyber-physical systems (CPS) perform essential tasks such as controlling
automated production processes in industrial production plants. The required levels of …

Prototyping is an effective and efficient way of requirements validation to avoid introducing
errors in the early stage of software development. However, manually developing a …

As a part of the digital revolution of railway systems, an autonomous driving train will use a
complete and precise map of railway infrastructure to conduct operational actions …

Cyber-physical systems are increasingly developed for highly-automated purposes, such as
industrial production plants. Not only the level of autonomy of these cyber-physical …

QUALITY PLANNING AND ASSURANCE Discover the most crucial aspects of quality
systems planning critical to manufacturing and service success In Quality Planning and …

When developing cyber‐physical systems (CPS), the context is of vital importance. CPS
interact with the world not only through sensing the environment and acting upon it (like …

Numerous academic research projects and industrial tasks related to software engineering
require individual requirements as input. Unfortunately, according to our observation …

Developing safety-critical, software-intensive embedded systems are characterized by the
need to identify hazards and to define hazard-mitigating requirements at the earliest …