"Fairness Analysis" in Requirements Assignments

Requirements engineering for multiple customers, each of whom have competing and often conflicting priorities, raises issues of negotiation, mediation and conflict resolution. This paper uses a multi-objective optimisation approach to support investigation of the trade-offs in various notions of fairness between multiple customers. Results are presented to validate the approach using two real-world data sets and also using data sets created specifically to stress test the approach. Simple graphical techniques are used to visualize the solution space.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: RE
• Authors: Anthony Finkelstein, Mark Harman, S. Afshin Mansouri, Jian Ren, Yuanyuan Zhang
• Keywords: Data Sets, Multi-objective Optimisation Approach, Multiple Customers, RE 2008, Software Engineering