Negotiation behavior during requirement specification

Negotiation is part of specification; during specification acquisition, users negotiate among themselves and with analysts. During specification design, designers negotiate among themselves and with a project leader. The author reports on work concerned with multiagent specification design. He describes how various agents, often with conflicting goals, can resolve their differences, integrate their results, and produce a unified specification. Such bargaining behavior is both ubiquitous in complex specification and unrepresented by current methods. Automated means to promote integrative behavior during specification are presented. Formal models of users´ desires and resolution methods are necessary for integrative reasoning