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Engineering Requirements for Autonomy Features

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Software Engineering for Collective Autonomic Systems

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This chapter outlines an approach to Autonomy Requirements Engineering (ARE). ARE targets the integration and promotion of autonomy in software-intensive systems by providing a mechanism and methodology for elicitation and expression of autonomy requirements. ARE relies on goal-oriented requirements engineering to elicit and define system goals, and uses the generic autonomy requirements model to derive and define assistive and, eventually, alternative objectives. The system may pursue these “self-* objectives” in the presence of factors threatening the achievement of the initial system goals. Once identified, the autonomy requirements are specified with the KnowLang language. To demonstrate the ARE’s ability to handle autonomy requirements for autonomic ensembles, the ARE’s application to the ASCENS Science Clouds case study is presented and discussed in detail.

This research was supported by the European project IP 257414 (ASCENS).

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Vassev, E., Hinchey, M. (2015). Engineering Requirements for Autonomy Features. In: Wirsing, M., Hölzl, M., Koch, N., Mayer, P. (eds) Software Engineering for Collective Autonomic Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8998. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16310-9_11

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