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Reaims: Workplan
The project is a 2-year project, partially funded by the European Commission. It started on 1st March 1994.Reaims is an application-driven project whose main aim is to allow organizations to develop and assess requirements engineering processes for dependable systems. It will propose mechanisms for process improvement by suggesting methods for structuring the requirements elicitation and analysis process, will use social studies of errors and accidents to provide guidelines for the design of dependable processes, will investigate the introduction of formal methods in the specification process and will develop a generic maturity model for requirements engineering. All of the research has been informed by industrial needs and evaluated in real applications in the railway signalling and aerospace domains.
Important characteristics of the Reaims project are that it is not just concerned with software engineering but is concerned with systems requirements engineering. It also focuses on safety- related systems so is concerned with developing processes which recognise the importance of safety concerns and which are designed to include appropriate safety and dependability analysis.