i* meets AI: New Roles in Requirements Modelling. 

In this talk I will outline a future vision for the development of i* modelling in the emergent area of RE for AI. The RE vision focusses on the fairness debate: how can we anticipate AI biases and define requirements to prevent or mitigate such effects ? This motivates modelling of training and operational AI classifier data sets, AI output and the environmental context of use, e.g. AI output used in policy decisions. I will argue i* has a key role to play in AI-RE modelling, extending constructs of agents (often people in data sets), softgoals to express values such as fairness, diversity, transparency (see the XAI debate). New views on dependency will be necessary to express associations between agents within and between (input/output) data sets to discover awareness requirements, i.e. monitoring processes which examine dependencies between training data, intended and possible unintended output, within the envelope of fairness and other soft goals. Annotation and choice of modelling examples in supervised learning is another potential application of i* modelling. I will illustrate these proposals with a case based on AI management of call centre activity where performance management incentives and service quality need to be fair to both customers and employees. Analysis of i* data models will lead to specification of awareness requirements and agenda for future RE research  to define appropriate behaviour and use of AI systems. 

Bio

Professor (emeritus) Alistair Sutcliffe retired from the University of Manchester in October 2011. He continues his research with colleagues in Manchester, as a visiting professor in University College London and as a Research Fellow on the EPSRC Twenty-20 Insight Project in Aston University, Birmingham. He has been principle investigator on numerous EPSRC, ESRC and European Union projects. His research interests span a wide area within Human Computer Interaction, Software and Systems Engineering. In HCI particular interests are evaluating user experience, interaction design, and design of complex socio-technical systems. In software engineering he specialises in requirements engineering, scenario based design, and systems engineering processes. His experience includes industry-oriented applied research in aerospace and defence (safety engineering), healthcare informatics, food safety, and supply chain integration. He has over 300 publications including five books and several edited volumes of papers. He was awarded the IFIP silver core in 2000, IFIP Pioneer award in 2016, Fellow in 2021 and a Lifetime Achievement Award by the IEEE Requirements Engineering community in 2011.