TY - GEN
T1 - Towards engineering transparency as a requirement in socio-technical systems
AU - Hosseini, Mahmood
AU - Shahri, Alimohammad
AU - Phalp, Keith
AU - Ali, Raian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/11/4
Y1 - 2015/11/4
N2 - The improvement and success of socio-technical systems depend on the joint optimisation of both the social and the technical parts. Improving the social part of a socio-technical system is a meticulous task, as social requirements are diverse and dynamic, and they usually evolve with time and context. Information transparency (henceforth, transparency) is one of the social requirements that can affect the overall attitude of the stakeholders present within a socio-technical system, and influence their other social requirements such as privacy, trust, collaboration and non-bias. In this paper, we advocate the need to engineer transparency as a first class requirement, propose a baseline model for transparency and show how this model can be a starting point for the analysis of transparency requirements of different stakeholders. We showcase our on-going research in the modelling and analysis of transparency as a requirement, discuss some of the challenges of transparency requirements elicitation, and present our future work.
AB - The improvement and success of socio-technical systems depend on the joint optimisation of both the social and the technical parts. Improving the social part of a socio-technical system is a meticulous task, as social requirements are diverse and dynamic, and they usually evolve with time and context. Information transparency (henceforth, transparency) is one of the social requirements that can affect the overall attitude of the stakeholders present within a socio-technical system, and influence their other social requirements such as privacy, trust, collaboration and non-bias. In this paper, we advocate the need to engineer transparency as a first class requirement, propose a baseline model for transparency and show how this model can be a starting point for the analysis of transparency requirements of different stakeholders. We showcase our on-going research in the modelling and analysis of transparency as a requirement, discuss some of the challenges of transparency requirements elicitation, and present our future work.
KW - socio-technical systems
KW - transparency analysis
KW - transparency modelling
KW - transparency requirements
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84962427830&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/RE.2015.7320435
DO - 10.1109/RE.2015.7320435
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962427830
T3 - 2015 IEEE 23rd International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2015 - Proceedings
SP - 268
EP - 273
BT - 2015 IEEE 23rd International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2015 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 23rd IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2015
Y2 - 24 August 2015 through 28 August 2015
ER -