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The most crucial aspect of software engineering is the gathering of requirements. The best source of requirements is domain knowledge and the best source of domain knowledge is stakeholders. Current requirements engineering techniques are failing to a) identify stakeholders, and b) identify why a stakeholder is a stakeholder. In an attempt to address this issue the responsibility modelling technique developed in this paper focuses upon the specification of domain knowledge through the identification of stakeholders and the specification of the roles they play and the actions they perform in an organisation.
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Blyth, A. (1996). Responsibility Modelling and its Application to the Specification of Domain Knowledge. In: Sutcliffe, A., Benyon, D., van Assche, F. (eds) Domain Knowledge for Interactive System Design. IS&O 1996. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35059-2_4
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