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@inproceedings{citeulike:3859645, abstract = {This vision paper reflects on the nature and status of Requirements Engineering as a science, based on recent RE journal articles on methodological foundations and research classification such as [18]. We put this discussion into the wider perspective of ongoing debates in other areas, including social and natural sciences methodology, IS and design research. We propose a new categorization of the notions of validity and evaluation, and suggest a criterial framework inspired by work on the structure of scientific argument.}, address = {Washington, DC, USA}, author = {Akkermans, Hans and Gordij, Jaap}, booktitle = {RE '06: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'06)}, citeulike-article-id = {3859645}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1173696.1174022}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RE.2006.73}, doi = {10.1109/RE.2006.73}, isbn = {0-7695-2555-5}, keywords = {2006, req}, pages = {266--271}, posted-at = {2009-01-08 10:01:22}, priority = {0}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, title = {What is This Science Called Requirements Engineering?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RE.2006.73}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:3859645 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3859645 N2 - This vision paper reflects on the nature and status of Requirements Engineering as a science, based on recent RE journal articles on methodological foundations and research classification such as [18]. We put this discussion into the wider perspective of ongoing debates in other areas, including social and natural sciences methodology, IS and design research. We propose a new categorization of the notions of validity and evaluation, and suggest a criterial framework inspired by work on the structure of scientific argument. SN - 0-7695-2555-5 AD - Washington, DC, USA EP - 271 TI - What is This Science Called Requirements Engineering? PB - IEEE Computer Society T2 - RE '06: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'06) SP - 266 KW - 2006 KW - req AU - Akkermans, Hans AU - Gordij, Jaap PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/RE.2006.73 ER -