U.S.-Germany Cooperative Research on the Technical and Empirical Foundations for Requirements Traceability

该奖项支持Balasubramanian Ramesh教授和一名来自海军研究生院的美国研究生与德国亚琛技术大学的Matthias Jarke教授及其研究小组合作进行制造工程研究。 他们正在研究需求可追溯性的技术和经验基础，需求可追溯性被广泛用作系统开发过程质量的衡量标准，最终与产品开发的现代方法有关。他们的合作建立在Ramesh教授的补充实证研究和Jarke教授及其团队开发的理论技术的整合基础上。 亚琛是设计和制造工程领域的全球领导者，目前正在参与欧洲区域在可追溯性要求方面的努力。 当前的实践以及可跟踪性的有用性在系统开发工作中有很大的不同。 不足之处包括缺乏关于必须获取何种信息以及何时和如何利用这些信息来支持各种利益攸关方需求的全面指导方针。 Ramesh和Jarke教授将整合他们独立开发的可追溯性模型，将其纳入原型实施方案，并对大型系统开发项目的研究成果进行实证评估。 他们的合作研究的结果可能会影响下一代计算机辅助系统工程（CASE）环境的设计，在许多行业的并行设计过程中的利益。

This award supports Professor Balasubramanian Ramesh and a U.S. graduate student from the Naval Postgraduate School to collaborate in manufacturing engineering research with Professor Matthias Jarke and his research group of the Technical University of Aachen, Germany. They are studying the technical and empirical foundations for requirements traceability, which is widely used as a measure of the quality of the systems development process, ultimately related to modern methods for product development. Their collaboration is built on the integration of complementary empirical research by Professor Ramesh and theoretical techniques developed by Professor Jarke and his group. Aachen is a world leader in design and manufacturing engineering, and is currently participating in a regional European effort in the area of traceability requirements. Current practices as well as the usefulness of traceability vary considerably across systems development efforts. Weaknesses include the lack of comprehensive guidelines on what kinds of information must be captured, and when, and how it should be used to support various stakeholder needs. Professors Ramesh and Jarke will integrate their independently developed traceability models, incorporate them into a prototype implementation scheme and conduct empirical evaluations of the research results in large scale system development projects. The results of their cooperative research are likely to influence the design of the next generation of Computer Aided System Engineering (CASE) environments, to the benefit of the concurrent design process in many industries.