Understanding requirement engineering (REQ) from a software agent modeling perspective

The requirements for modeling a software product are growing in size and increasingly getting complex, interdependent and to understand them requires the availability of simple representational requirement engineering tools and measures to evaluate them. Requirements engineering still remains a key factor to guarantee stakeholders involvement, facilitating their understanding and participation. The paper presents an overview of agent based modeling requirements engineering (REQ) from a software agent point of view via a JADE platform. It describes the main areas of RE practice, tools for requirement management, conflict between goals of different agents and highlights some key open research issues for the future. The paper addresses how to model requirements engineering problem model using a proposed Prioritization Agent matrix Scheduling (PAMS) as a use-case example.