Dobson, Glen and Hall, Stephen and Kotonya, Gerald (2007) A Domain-Independent Ontology for Non-Functional Requirements. In: ICEBE '07: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering :. IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 563-566. ISBN 978-0-7695-3003-1
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Despite considerable research on ontologies for representing requirements models (and metamodels), little progress has been made in using ontologies to represent non-functional requirements. Non-functional requirements define the overall qualities of the resulting system. Because they are restrictions on system services, non-functional requirements are often of critical importance, and functional requirements may need to be sacrificed to meet them. However, because of their diverse nature, non-functional requirements are often expressed in non-standard domain-specific ways. This paper describes a nonfunctional requirements ontology that can be used to structure and express constraints as part of quality of service specification. The approach is illustrated using a small case-study.