An Enhancement of Software Requirements Negotiation with Rule-based Reasoning: A Conceptual Model

Problems to be solved by software systems are becoming complex and the requirements of these systems are based on increasingly detailed knowledge of the users’ domain. Stakeholders are people related to the system and usually come to the elicitation process with different perception and perspective. Dealing with multiple stakeholders, conflicts are inevitable and therefore the need of negotiation mechanism to resolve conflict is crucial. This paper forwards an enhancement of software requirements negotiation conceptual model to assist the conflict detection and resolution effort. The significant of the enhanced model is to empower the automation of conflicts detection and its severity level with rule-based reasoning.