文献类型：会议论文

英文题名：Using an Ideas Creation System to Assist and Inspire Creativity in Requirements Engineering

作者：Jing, Delin[1];Zhang, Chi[1,2];Yang, Hongji[1]

第一作者：Jing, Delin

通讯作者：Jing, DL[1]

机构：[1]Bath Spa Univ, Ctr Creat Comp, Corsham SN13 0BZ, Chippenham, England;[2]Beijing Union Univ, Tourism Inst, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China

第一机构：Bath Spa Univ, Ctr Creat Comp, Corsham SN13 0BZ, Chippenham, England

通讯机构：[1]corresponding author), Bath Spa Univ, Ctr Creat Comp, Corsham SN13 0BZ, Chippenham, England.

会议论文集：2nd Asia-Pacific Requirements Engineering Symposium (APRES)

会议日期：OCT 18-20, 2015

会议地点：Wuhan, PEOPLES R CHINA

语种：英文

外文关键词：Requirements engineering; Creative requirements; Ideas creation; Creative computing; Creativity

摘要：Software product markets have become extremely competitive as there are always multiple software products striving to serve the users in the same application domain. In order to be successful, a software system needs to distinguish itself from other similar products and surprise users with novel and useful features. Obviously, creativity becomes much more important in a software engineering process, especially for requirements, as creative requirements engineering is crucial to new and surprising features or services. However, normally, with it focuses on elicitation, analysis, and management, research studies on requirements engineering do not offer strong support to creativity in requirements engineering. Naturally, services like idea generation can be involved to support creativity requirements engineering by eliciting innovative ideas from stakeholders. Although a considerable number of applications and research studies have been made in the past years in order to increase the effectiveness of idea making process, there is little work exists to design an ideas creation system for assisting and inspiring requirements. Meanwhile, it is lack of efforts working on creativity requirements in the requirements engineering perspective particularly. Therefore, the objective of this research paper is to propose an ideas creation system to assist engineering activities for generating creativity requirements. In particular, this paper designed an ideas creation framework and defined and classified a set of creativity elements according to creativity techniques. Then, it proposes a creative requirements engineering method that is supported by the designed ideas creation system and creativity elements, whilst the application domain is specific to the e-learning service. An inference engine is the kernel part in the idea generation process with domain ontology for the target field as the knowledge base. Hence, the generated ideas are inspiring stakeholders to get not only relevant and useful but also novel and surprising requirements.