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.