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Using Fuzzy Linguistic 2-Tuples to Collectively Prioritize Software Requirements based on Stakeholders' Evaluations

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Vassilis C. Gerogiannis,

Georgios TzikasAuthors Info & Claims

PCI '17: Proceedings of the 21st Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics

Article No.: 48, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/3139367.3139430

Published: 28 September 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Efficient consideration of all stakeholders' needs and perspectives in a software project is a key challenge, especially when prioritizing the software requirements to be developed in the next software release. This paper presents a new requirements prioritization approach that aims to collectively prioritize software requirements based on their ratings expressed from different stakeholders. The proposed approach follows the steps of a value-oriented process in which multiple and possibly distributed stakeholders assess the values of candidate requirements with respect to various prioritization criteria. The approach applies a group-based, fuzzy multi-criteria technique requiring from involved stakeholders to evaluate requirements using linguistic terms. Stakeholders' linguistic evaluations are aggregated to collectively derive more objective and reasonable assessments on the final requirements' priorities1.

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Using Fuzzy Linguistic 2-Tuples to Collectively Prioritize Software Requirements based on Stakeholders' Evaluations
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis

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