Operationalizing Human Values in the Requirements Engineering Process of Ethics-Aware Autonomous Systems
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| author | Júnior, Everaldo Silva Marsso, Lina Caldas, Ricardo Chechik, Marsha Rodrigues, Genaína Nunes |
| author_facet | Júnior, Everaldo Silva Marsso, Lina Caldas, Ricardo Chechik, Marsha Rodrigues, Genaína Nunes |
| contents | Operationalizing human values alongside functional and adaptation requirements remains challenging due to their ambiguous, pluralistic, and context-dependent nature. Explicit representations are needed to support the elicitation, analysis, and negotiation of value conflicts beyond traditional software engineering abstractions. In this work, we propose a requirements engineering approach for ethics-aware autonomous systems that captures human values as normative goals and aligns them with functional and adaptation goals. These goals are systematically operationalized into Social, Legal, Ethical, Empathetic, and Cultural (SLEEC) requirements, enabling automated well-formedness checking, conflict detection, and early design-time negotiation. We demonstrate the feasibility of the approach through a medical Body Sensor Network case study. |
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| spellingShingle | Operationalizing Human Values in the Requirements Engineering Process of Ethics-Aware Autonomous Systems Júnior, Everaldo Silva Marsso, Lina Caldas, Ricardo Chechik, Marsha Rodrigues, Genaína Nunes Software Engineering Operationalizing human values alongside functional and adaptation requirements remains challenging due to their ambiguous, pluralistic, and context-dependent nature. Explicit representations are needed to support the elicitation, analysis, and negotiation of value conflicts beyond traditional software engineering abstractions. In this work, we propose a requirements engineering approach for ethics-aware autonomous systems that captures human values as normative goals and aligns them with functional and adaptation goals. These goals are systematically operationalized into Social, Legal, Ethical, Empathetic, and Cultural (SLEEC) requirements, enabling automated well-formedness checking, conflict detection, and early design-time negotiation. We demonstrate the feasibility of the approach through a medical Body Sensor Network case study. |
| title | Operationalizing Human Values in the Requirements Engineering Process of Ethics-Aware Autonomous Systems |
| topic | Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09921 |