TY - GEN
T1 - Foundations for transparency requirements engineering
AU - Hosseini, Mahmood
AU - Shahri, Alimohammad
AU - Phalp, Keith
AU - Ali, Raian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - [Context & motivation] Transparency is becoming an essential requirement for business information systems. Transparency is advocated to inspire trust,. increase accountability and reduce corruption. However, it may also lead to negative side effects such as information overload, bias and unnecessary pressure on stakeholders. [Question/problem] Despite its distinct characteristics and importance, transparency is still a limitedly explored concept in software engineering and information systems literature, and is often fragmented across adjacent concepts such as privacy, secrecy and regulatory requirements. This limits its representation level and impedes its management. [Principal ideas/results] In this paper, we propose four facets for transparency and illustrate their usefulness in guiding transparency requirements engineering. [Contribution] These facets help clarify the concept of transparency and provide foundations for its management in information systems engineering as a distinct notion. Initiatives like the open data movement add to the timeliness and potential impact of our contribution.
AB - [Context & motivation] Transparency is becoming an essential requirement for business information systems. Transparency is advocated to inspire trust,. increase accountability and reduce corruption. However, it may also lead to negative side effects such as information overload, bias and unnecessary pressure on stakeholders. [Question/problem] Despite its distinct characteristics and importance, transparency is still a limitedly explored concept in software engineering and information systems literature, and is often fragmented across adjacent concepts such as privacy, secrecy and regulatory requirements. This limits its representation level and impedes its management. [Principal ideas/results] In this paper, we propose four facets for transparency and illustrate their usefulness in guiding transparency requirements engineering. [Contribution] These facets help clarify the concept of transparency and provide foundations for its management in information systems engineering as a distinct notion. Initiatives like the open data movement add to the timeliness and potential impact of our contribution.
KW - Information quality
KW - Meaningful transparency
KW - Stakeholder transparency
KW - Transparency requirements
KW - Useful transparency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84960861708&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-30282-9_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-30282-9_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84960861708
SN - 9783319302812
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 225
EP - 231
BT - Requirements Engineering
A2 - Pastor, Oscar
A2 - Daneva, Maya
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 22nd International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2016
Y2 - 14 March 2016 through 17 March 2016
ER -