When Requirement Engineering Meets Computational Science Modelling and Simulation

Methods such as interview and natural language description are useful to understand a problem and user needs for software development. Can requirement engineering is used when engineering a computational science software? This paper investigates on the adoption of agent-oriented requirement engineering for CSE software. This work adopts and extends an agent-oriented requirement engineering for Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) software development. The work evaluates a proposed approach under a case study of an epidemiology modelling, malaria model. This research has shown that the proposed approach can transform and reuse a malaria model into a software context for further application development like NetLogo, or rule-based system. The contribution of this paper is introduced software engineering for CSE software. Also, it bridges the gaps between a software engineer and computational science and mathematical researchers.