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Continuously changing business situations and technologies have produced a need for continuous requirements engineering. The challenges in continuous requirements engineering for socio-cyber-physical systems stem from the differences in approaches to systems design and development that can be applied simultaneously at the same time and in the same context, on the one hand; and, on the other hand, from the frequent changes that can appear in objects and the interactions of all three types of systems involved: social, cyber and physical, that form the context of solutions to be developed. This paper addresses complexity, emergence, and fluent borders of systems – the challenges that may occur in continuous requirements engineering in the context of socio-cyber-physical systems. The FREEDOM framework is discussed as one of the tools that can help to meet these challenges.
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Kirikova, M. (2020). Continuous Requirements Engineering in the Context of Socio-cyber-Physical Systems. In: Robal, T., Haav, HM., Penjam, J., Matulevičius, R. (eds) Databases and Information Systems. DB&IS 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1243. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57672-1_1
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