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Fig. 2.
EBNF requirements structure (sentence level) [21]
Fig. 3.
Example report on requirements conflicts
3.3 Research Issues
The underlying idea of this research is to use advanced semantic technologies, like
ontologies and reasoning mechanisms, to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of
ReqM activities. In a large software project, tasks like requirements categorization,
conflict analysis, and tracing would need human effort and duration that often prohibits
their use in practice. Therefore, software projects often end up with (a) unstructured
requirements and (b) conflicts that get discovered late and expensively.
In this context, the main research question of this paper is: To what extent can a se-
mantic-technology-based approach, like OntRep, increase the effectiveness and effi-
ciency of requirements categorization and conflict analysis compared to a traditional
