Eliciting Ethicality Requirements Using the Ontology-Based Requirements Engineering Method

Renata Guizzardi; Glenda Amaral; Giancarlo Guizzardi; John Mylopoulos

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-07475-2_15

Eliciting Ethicality Requirements Using the Ontology-Based Requirements Engineering Method

Renata Guizzardi^*, Glenda Amaral, Giancarlo Guizzardi, John Mylopoulos

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review

Abstract

The advent of socio-technical, cyber-physical and Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems has broadened the scope of requirements engineering which must now deal with new classes of requirements, concerning ethics, privacy and trust. Unfortunately, requirements engineers cannot be expected to understand the qualities behind these new classes of systems so that they can conduct elicitation, analysis and operationalization. To address this issue, we propose a methodology for conducting requirements engineering which starts with the adoption of an ontology for a quality domain, such as ethicality, privacy or trustworthiness, populates the ontology for the system-to-be and conducts requirements analysis grounded on the populated ontology. We illustrate our proposal with ethicality requirements.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling
Publisher	Springer Science + Business Media
Pages	221-236
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-07475-2
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-07474-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07475-2_15
Publication status	Published - 30 May 2022
Event	34th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2022 - Leuven, Belgium Duration: 6 Jun 2022 → 10 Jun 2022 Conference number: 34

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume	450
ISSN (Print)	1865-1348
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-1356

Conference

Conference	34th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2022
Abbreviated title	CAiSE
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Leuven
Period	6/06/22 → 10/06/22

Keywords

Ethical requirements
Foundational ontologies
Requirements elicitation and analysis

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10.1007/978-3-031-07475-2_15

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Guizzardi, R., Amaral, G., Guizzardi, G., & Mylopoulos, J. (2022). Eliciting Ethicality Requirements Using the Ontology-Based Requirements Engineering Method. In Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (pp. 221-236). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 450). Springer Science + Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07475-2_15

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Guizzardi, R, Amaral, G, Guizzardi, G & Mylopoulos, J 2022, Eliciting Ethicality Requirements Using the Ontology-Based Requirements Engineering Method. in Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 450, Springer Science + Business Media, pp. 221-236, 34th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2022, Leuven, Belgium, 6/06/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07475-2_15

Eliciting Ethicality Requirements Using the Ontology-Based Requirements Engineering Method. / Guizzardi, Renata; Amaral, Glenda; Guizzardi, Giancarlo et al.

Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. Springer Science + Business Media, 2022. p. 221-236 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 450).

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