4.3.3 An Architecture for an Intelligent Requirements Elicitation and Assessment Assistant

Requirements engineering is crucial to the success of the system engineering process. Unfortunately, while current generation tools provide good support to requirements capture, they offer only modest assistance for cognitive tasks such as requirements assessment. This paper opens by introducing the attributes needed to define a requirement and the qualities of good requirements and requirements sets. An argument is then presented for the inclusion of artificial intelligence to perform requirements analysis and this is followed by a review of intelligent requirement analysis tools identifying the need for enhancements. From this basis, the paper describes the architecture of an intelligent requirements elicitation and assessment assistant that is currently under construction.