Addressing requirements engineering challenges in the context of Emergent Systems

Dominant trends in today´s IT research such as service orientation and cloud computing will enable novel business information systems, called Emergent Systems. However, the introduction of Emergent Systems will have a significant impact and pose challenges relating to requirements engineering. In this position paper we propose and describe the so-called SoMBRERO framework that aims to address practical problems in the area of requirements engineering that will arise during the development process of future information systems. Furthermore, we provide a research agenda that guides our ongoing work to address research questions in this area.