MaRK’08 focuses on potentials and benefits of lightweight knowledge management approaches, such as ontology-based annotation, semantic wikis, data mining and rationale management techniques, applied to requirements engineering. Methodologies, processes and tools for capturing, externalizing, sharing and reusing of knowledge in (distributed) requirements engineering processes are discussed. Furthermore, the workshop will be an interactive exchange platform between the knowledge management community, requirements engineering community and industrial practitioners.

Research has shown that capturing and sharing of tacit knowledge about requirements (a) enhances reuse, (b) enables traceability, (c) supports requirement evolution and (d) improves collaboration between participants in distributed projects. However, current requirements engineering processes and tools do not give enough room for managing requirements knowledge. In the age of agile methodologies and with the increasing distribution, scale and complexity of development projects, the need for managing requirements knowledge continues to increase, while the major constraint is to have a lightweight, usable, intelligent and personalized capturing and sharing approach. Requirement engineering infrastructures should capture and formalize tacit knowledge and requirement stakeholders should be able to answer questions about requirements at any time, using their common vocabularies.

Traditional knowledge management solutions require formal processes, extensive maintenance policies, large upfront configuration and long time investments. Recent advancements in knowledge management such as ontological engineering, mining techniques, semantic annotation as well as search and assistance tools brings new potentials for the requirement engineering community. Therefore, this workshop discusses the issues and approaches regarding capturing, externalizing, accessing, sharing and maintaining of knowledge in requirements engineering.

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