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Recommendation Systems in Requirements Discovery

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Recommendation systems offer the opportunity for supporting and enhancing a wide variety of activities in requirements engineering. We discuss several potential uses. In particular we highlight the role of recommendation systems in online forums that are used for capturing and discussing feature requests. The recommendation system is used to mitigate problems introduced when face-to-face communication is replaced with potentially high-volume online discussions. In this context, recommendation systems can be used to suggest relevant topics to stakeholders and conversely to recommend expert stakeholders for each discussion topic. We also explore the use of recommendation systems in the domain analysis process, where they can be used to recommend sets of features to include in new products.

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    Negar Hariri, Jane Cleland-Huang & Bamshad Mobasher

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Hariri, N., Castro-Herrera, C., Cleland-Huang, J., Mobasher, B. (2014). Recommendation Systems in Requirements Discovery. In: Robillard, M., Maalej, W., Walker, R., Zimmermann, T. (eds) Recommendation Systems in Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45135-5_17

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