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The most dificult step in the design process of a system is clearly the transition from the requirements to the architecture. Requirements obtained from the various stakeholders must be transformed into an architecture that can be understood by developers. The power plant system we use in this study was derived from [1,2]. We first created a goal-oriented requirements specification from the information available using the KAOS requirement specification language [3,4,5]. Since the description was not complete we often had to make do with inadequate data.
The research was supported in part by NSF CISE Grant CCR–0306613 “Transforming requirement specifications into architectural prescriptions”.
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Jani, D., Vanderveken, D., Perry, D. (2005). Deriving Architecture Specifications from KAOS Specifications: A Research Case Study. In: Morrison, R., Oquendo, F. (eds) Software Architecture. EWSA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3527. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11494713_13
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