ORMF: An Ontology-Based Requirements Management Framework for Networked Software

Networked software, a special kind of applications in service-oriented computing and ultra-large-scale systems, is a complex software system deploying on network environment. Currently, traditional requirements management systems are far from meeting demands of networked software, due to low degree of automation, coarse-grained management and limited support for requirements modeling activities. Facing the challenges, based on meta-modeling frame called RGPS (Role-Goal-Process-Service) international standard, an ontology-based requirements management framework called ORMF is presented in this paper. In addition, an open requirements management architecture is designed to fulfill ORMF framework. Finally, a requirement registration and query tool called RGPS Browser is implemented to provide supporting services for open requirements process of networked software. Combined with an on-demand Q/A case in transport domain, it displays fine-grained retrieval in visualization.