Abstract—The main aim of this paper is to elucidate how we can provide a set of more powerful software requirements targeted to facilitate their retrieval. So a central challenge for this research work is to define a new concept of software requirement object as combining two kinds of knowledge: 1) requirements knowledge and 2) metadata knowledge. A new metadata language is proposed in order to qualify, retrieve and reuse requirements. This new language is organized as a hierarchy, including categories, aggregate data elements and simple data elements.
Index Terms—Metadata, semantic interoperability, software requirements.
The authors are with Information Systems Department, College of Computer & Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia (e-mail: az_chikh@ksu.edu.sa, falqershi@ksu.edu.sa).
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Cite: A. Chikh and F. Al-Qershi, "A New Metadata Language for Software Requirements," Lecture Notes on Software Engineering vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 267-269, 2013.
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