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Evaluation and prioritization of requirements is one of the key aspects in requirements engineering. Although the existing studies in this area are greatly focused on addressing business goals such as development budget and deadlines of completion, we believe that human-centered concerns, including end-users’ personal desires, goals, beliefs and constrained environment, must also weigh in. In this paper we present a new human-centered requirements evaluation and prioritization approach that effectively considers such concerns. The proposed method is based on the situation–transition structure introduced in our previous study that was used to elicit human-centered requirements. We illustrate the applicability of the proposed methodology through a case study.
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Atukorala, N.L., Chang, C.K., Oyama, K. (2016). Situation-Oriented Evaluation and Prioritization of Requirements. In: Lee, SW., Nakatani, T. (eds) Requirements Engineering Toward Sustainable World . APRES 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 671. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3256-1_2
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