A multi-criteria process to resolve conflict in the composition of aspectual requirements

Abstract

The requirements composition is an important activity in Aspect-Oriented Requirements Engineering (AORE). This activity is used to define functionalities of the future system. It consists of the composition of aspectual requirements with base requirements. This composition may raise conflicting situations between aspectual requirements. However, a conflict appear when two or more aspectual requirements (aspect) that contribute negatively to each other and have the same degree of importance must to be composed together to define functionalities of the future system. This conflict need to be identified and resolved. In this paper, we propose a multi-criteria process to resolve conflicts in the context of AORE. This process use fuzzy measure and Choquet integral to take into account the interaction between these criteria when they are not mutually independent.