Towards Geographic Requirements Engineering

It is now well recognized that information management systems often deal with geographic information even if they often do not take advantage of it. In these systems, requirements engineering (RE) is becoming more and more important in helping stakeholders to model their requirements regarding the quality of the data. However, to date, few RE projects take geographic information and geographic constraints into account. We thus propose to study in this paper the question of managing such geographic constraints in the framework of RE. We propose an extension of the RE model and its implementation within the KAOS framework, and the use of geographic ontologies