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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/jucs.2020.003</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23988</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
        </subj-group>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="scientific_subject">
          <subject>D.2.1 - Requirements/Specifications</subject>
        </subj-group>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>An Intelligent Recommender System Based on Association Rule Analysis for Requirement Engineering</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Muhairat</surname>
            <given-names>Mohammad</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">drmohairat@zuj.edu.jo</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Bi</surname>
            <given-names>Shadi ALZu</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Hawashin</surname>
            <given-names>Bilal</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Elbes</surname>
            <given-names>Mohammad</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Al-Ayyoub</surname>
            <given-names>Mahmoud</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A2">2</xref>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Al Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan</addr-line>
        <institution>Al Zaytoonah University of Jordan</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Amman</addr-line>
        <country>Jordan</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan</addr-line>
        <institution>Jordan University of Science and Technology</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Irbid</addr-line>
        <country>Jordan</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Mohammad Muhairat (<email xlink:type="simple">drmohairat@zuj.edu.jo</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>26</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage>33</fpage>
      <lpage>49</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/E4D57B29-F7FA-5781-B32C-C0A7EFA09235">E4D57B29-F7FA-5781-B32C-C0A7EFA09235</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5508473">5508473</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>30</day>
          <month>12</month>
          <year>2018</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>11</month>
          <year>2019</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Mohammad Muhairat, Shadi ALZu Bi, Bilal Hawashin, Mohammad Elbes, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-ND 4.0). This license allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator. The license allows for commercial use.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Requirement gathering is a vital step in software engineering. Even though many recent researches concentrated on the improvement of the requirement gathering process, many of their works lack completeness especially when the number of users is large. Data Mining techniques have been recently employed in various domains with promising results. In this work, we propose an intelligent recommender system for requirement engineering based on association rule analysis, which is a main category in Data Mining. Such recommender would contribute in enhancing the accuracy of the gathered requirements and provide more comprehensive results. Conducted experiments in this work prove that FP Growth outperformed Apriori in terms of execution and space consumption, while both methods were efficient in term of accuracy.</p>
      </abstract>
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