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Title:
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A MULTI-AGENT APPROACH FOR NEGOTIATION IN REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING PROCESS IN COOPERATIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS |
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Author(s):
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Chaouki Boulekdam, Nacereddine Zarour |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8704-10-8 |
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Editors:
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Ajith P. Abraham, Antonio Palma dos Reis and Jörg Roth |
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Year:
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2014 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Multi-Agent Systems; Cooperative Information Systems; Requirements conflict; Negotiation; Requirements Engineering (RE). |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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109 |
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Last Page:
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116 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The requirement engineering process aims to provide a requirements specification document that defines the system to be developed. In this paper, we focus our work on the negotiation phase for the requirements engineering process in cooperative information systems (CIS). The negotiation includes the discussion of requirements conflicts and the search of a compromise approved by all stakeholders. In order to improve this phase we propose a new negotiation approach, which overcomes the following problems: requirements could be in conflicts, and the existing conflicts cannot be explicitly well expressed i.e. conflicts are often unknown. The principal quality of CIS is to interoperate physical sites by respecting their autonomy in this perspective, the paradigm multi-agents proposes concepts particularly interesting for the development of CIS: such as the dynamic organization, autonomy of control, decentralization, the interaction which includes: cooperation, coordination, and negotiation. In this paper, we detail the different phases of our approach with their models and finally we validate this approach by a case study |
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