Título: | INTENTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSPARENT SOFTWARE BASED ON ARGUMENTATION | |||||||
Autor: |
MAURICIO SERRANO |
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Colaborador(es): |
JULIO CESAR SAMPAIO DO PRADO LEITE - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 06/MAR/2012 | Língua(s): | PORTUGUESE - BRAZIL |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | |||||
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Referência(s): |
[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=19240&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=19240&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.19240 | |||||||
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Transparency is a critical quality criterion to modern democratic societies.
As software permeates society, transparency has become a concern to public
domain software, as eGovernment, eCommerce or social software. Therefore,
software transparency is becoming a quality criterion that demands more attention
from software developers. In particular, transparency requirements of a software
system are related to non-functional requirements, e.g. availability, usability,
informativeness, understandability and auditability. However, transparency
requirements are particularly difficult to validate due to the subjective nature of
the involved concepts. This thesis proposes a transparency-requirements-driven
intentional development of transparent software. Transparency requirements are
elicited with the support of a requirements patterns catalog, relatively validated by
the stakeholders through argumentation and represented on intentional models.
Intentional models are fundamental to software transparency, as they associate
goals and quality criteria expected by the stakeholders with the software
requirements. The goals and quality criteria also justify the decisions made during
software development. A system was implemented as an intentional multi-agents
system, i.e., a system with collaborative agents that implement the Belief-Desire-
Intention model and that are capable of reasoning about goals and quality criteria.
This thesis discusses important questions to the success of our approach to the
development of transparent software, such as: (i) forward and backward
traceability; (ii) a fuzzy-logic based reasoning engine for intentional agents; (iii)
the application of an argumentation framework to relatively validate transparency
requirements through stakeholders’ multi-party agreement; and (iv) collaborative
pre-traceability for intentional models based on social interactions. Our ideas were
validated through case studies from different domains, such as ubiquitous
computing and Web applications.
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