| Title | Defining Utility Functions for Multi-Stakeholder Self-Adaptive Systems |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2021 |
| Authors | Wohlrab, Rebekka, Garlan, David |
| Journal | REFSQ 2021: Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality |
| Date Published | 04/2021 |
| Keywords | 2019: July, Analytic Hierarchy Process., CMU, quality attributes, self-adaptive systems, utility functions |
| Abstract | For realistic self-adaptive systems, multiple quality attributes need to be considered and traded off
against each other. These quality attributes are commonly encoded in a utility function, for instance, a weighted sum of relevant objectives.
[Question/problem:] The research agenda for requirements engineering for self-adaptive systems has raised the need for decision-making
techniques that consider the trade-offs and priorities of multiple objectives. Human stakeholders need to be engaged in the decision-making
process so that the relative importance of each objective can be correctly elicited. [Principal ideas/results:] This research preview paper
presents a method that supports multiple stakeholders in prioritizing
relevant quality attributes, negotiating priorities to reach an agreement,
and giving input to define utility functions for self-adaptive systems.
[Contribution:] The proposed method constitutes a lightweight solution for utility function definition. It can be applied by practitioners and
researchers who aim to develop self-adaptive systems that meet stakeholders’ requirements. We present details of our plan to study the application of our method using a case study. |
| Citation Key | node-81246 |
Defining Utility Functions for Multi-Stakeholder Self-Adaptive Systems