Supporting multi-perspective requirements engineering

Supporting collaborating requirements engineers as they independently construct a specification is highly desirable. We show how collaborative requirements engineering can be supported using a planner, domain abstractions, and automated decision science techniques. In particular we show how requirements conflict resolution can be assisted through a combination of multi-agent multi-criteria optimization and heuristic resolution generation. We then summarize the use of our tool to rationally reconstruct a library specification. This line of research is significant in that it brings conflict detection and resolution into a requirements engineering framework. This particular work expands the automation found in previous results (W. Robinson, 1993)