The software development process produces vast amounts of textual data expressed in
natural language. Outcomes from the natural language processing community have been …

Most current software systems contain undocumented high-level ideas implemented across
multiple files and modules. When developers perform program maintenance tasks, they …

Ensuring compliance of software systems with government regulations, policies, and laws is
a complex problem. Generally speaking, solutions to the problem first identify rights and …

Aspect-oriented software development has focused on the software life cycle's
implementation phase: developers identify and capture aspects mainly in code. But aspects …

Government regulations are increasingly affecting the security, privacy and governance of
information systems in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. Consequently, companies …

In this paper, we discuss the limitations of the current syntactic composition mechanisms in
aspect-oriented requirements engineering (AORE). We highlight that such composition …

We present 1) a novel linguistic engine made of configurable linguistic components for
understanding natural language use case specification; and 2) results of the first of a kind …

Purpose–The aspect‐oriented paradigm provides mechanisms to modularize crosscutting
concerns. Applying aspect‐oriented concepts in business process modeling raises the …

The large time and effort devoted to software maintenance can be reduced by providing
software engineers with software tools that automate tedious, error-prone tasks. However …

Requirements elicitation requires extensive knowledge and deep understanding of the
problem domain where the final system will be situated. However, in many software …