Early Implementation of a Cognitive Assistant for Identifying Requirement Gaps

Requirements define the problem boundaries within which an engineering team tries to find acceptable solutions. Gaps in requirements formulation can lead to solutions that are not fit for purpose. However, the completeness of a set of requirements cannot be demonstrated; rather, completeness is an attempt, a best-effort pursuit. In current practice, where requirement gaps are frequent in system development, the human (engineer or team of engineers) becomes a major factor in the comprehensiveness of the resulting set of requirements. In this paper, we present an early implementation of a cognitive assistant that supports the (human) engineer in identifying gaps in the form of aSysML plugin for Magic Systems of Systems Architect.