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Handling Conflicts in Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering

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Identification and resolution of aspectual conflicts should be handled at the requirements level, before major design decisions are made. Treating conflicting situations this early facilitates negotiation among stakeholders. The Aspect-Oriented Requirements Analysis (AORA) approach offers HAM (Hybrid Assessment Method), a technique for the resolution of conflicts between concerns that contribute negatively to each other and have the same importance. HAM uses a multi-criteria decision method to support the resolution of these conflicts and extends this treatment to conflicts between concerns triggered by stakeholders with contradictory interests on a set of concerns. An example taken from the Crisis Management System case study is used to illustrate HAM’s potential support for treating concerns during composition.

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    If the priority allocated to each concern is different, the problem is not too difficult to solve.

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    Concern’s contributions represent how this concern affects others concerns. This contribution can be positive(+) or negative (−).

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    Note that the contributions specified here are asymmetric.

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  1. Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Instituto Politécnico de Beja, Beja, Portugal

    Isabel Sofia Brito

  2. Departamento de Informática, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

    Ana Moreira & João Araújo

  3. UNINOVA, Caparica, Portugal

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  2. University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

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  3. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal

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Brito, I.S., Moreira, A., Ribeiro, R.A., Araújo, J. (2013). Handling Conflicts in Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering. In: Moreira, A., Chitchyan, R., Araújo, J., Rashid, A. (eds) Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38640-4_12

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