@inproceedings{BA_RHAS06,
 author = {Travis D. Breaux and Annie I. Anton},
 affiliation = {North Carolina State University},
 title = {A Systematic Method for Acquiring Regulatory Requirements: A Frame-Based Approach},
 year = {2007},
 month = {September},
 booktitle = {RHAS-6: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Requirements for High Assurance Systems (RHAS-6)},
 publisher = {Software Engineering Institute (SEI)},
 address = {Pittsburgh, PA, USA},
 location = {Delhi, India},
 abstract = {Government laws and regulations impose requirements on software-intensive information systems. To comply with these laws and regulations, organizations need to evaluate current and future software systems early in the software development and procurement process by using a set of regulatory requirements. Acquiring requirements from regulations is complex because regulations contain intended and unintended ambiguity and because maintaining traceability across paragraphs and cross-references is essential to demonstrate due diligence in adhering to the law. To address these challenges, we propose the Frame-Based Requirements Analysis Method (FBRAM) to systematically acquire semi-formal representations of requirements from regulations. The method provides a means to identify and document different and possibly conflicting interpretations of regulatory requirements using an upper ontology, a context-free markup language and regulatory document model. This tool-supported method produces semi-formal representations of requirements are used to generate an HTML requirements document; this document is then visually inspected by analysts and domain experts who determine the correctness of the resulting requirements documents.},
}