Program
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9:00am - 10:00am: Keynote Talk. Renata Guizzardi-Silva Souza and Giancarlo Guizzardi.
Ontology-Based Requirements Engineering; The Case of Ethicality Requirements
10:00am - 10:30am: Á. Navarro, A. Lavalle, A. Maté and J. Trujillo. Requirements Modeling and Elicitation for Explainable Artificial Intelligence Based on i*
11:00am - 11:30am: J. J. Raja and M. Daun. Using iStar to Describe Human-robot Collaborations: Exploring Different Ways of Goal Model Usage
11:30am - 12:00pm: Y. Hirabayashi and M. Saeki. Towards Automatic Generation of iStar Models Using ChatGPT
12:00pm - 12:30pm: R. Sothilingam and E. Yu. Managing Collaborative Decision-Making and Trade-offs in ML Development: An Agent-Oriented Approach
Panel discussion: Opportunities and Challenges for GORE in the era of Learning-based AI
Panelists: Travis Breaux, Giancarlo Guizzardi, and Eric Yu
Ethical behavior is an integral part of people’s everyday life whether they are aware of this or not. When a teacher grades exams of dozens of students aiming at consistency and transparency, she is making ethical decisions. The same happens when doctors use ethical criteria to choose which patients should be prioritized in the face of limited resources, or when people are treated fairly in job interviews despite their color and gender. With the speedy development of intelligent technology, systems are more and more pervasive, and machines are also expected to make ethical decisions and act ethically. However, to ensure that, system developers, and in particular, requirements engineers must be aware of ethical principles. Moreover, such principles must guide development, thus being explicitly embedded in system engineering methods. In this talk, we argue that ontologies may play a crucial role in supporting awareness, besides being essential in the development of engineering practices leading ethical and trustworthy systems. In particular, we describe our own current efforts in the development of ontology-based requirements engineering and what that entails. We will talk about promising directions and results of this research and discuss what else is to be expected as next steps.
Renata Guizzardi is an Assistant Professor at the Industrial Engineering and Business Information Systems Department of the University of Twente, in the Netherlands. Moreover, she is a founding member of the Ontology & Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO) and of the Laboratory of Supporting Technologies for Collaborative Networks (LabTAR), at UFES, Brazil, where she was based from 2009-2016. For around 30 years, she has been busy with research work on Computer-Assisted Education, Requirements Engineering, Conceptual Modeling and Ontologies, focusing on the interplay of these research areas to improve the development of information systems and organizational practices.
Giancarlo Guizzardi is a Full Professor of Software Science and Evolution as well as Chair and Department Head of Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services (SCS) at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is also an Affiliated/Guest Professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) at Stockholm University, in Sweden. He has been active for nearly three decades in the areas of Formal and Applied Ontology, Conceptual Modeling, Enterprise Computing and Information Systems Engineering, working with a multidisciplinary approach in Computer Science that aggregates results from Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Logics and Linguistics. He is the main contributor to the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) and to the OntoUML modeling language. Over the years, he has delivered keynote speeches in several key international conferences in these fields (e.g., ER, CAiSE, BPM, IEEE ICSC). He is currently an associate editor of a number of journals including Applied Ontology and Data & Knowledge Engineering, a co-editor of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series, and a member of several international journal editorial boards. He is also a member of the Steering Committees of ER, CAiSE, EDOC, and IEEE CBI, and of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). Finally, he is an ER fellow.
Opportunities and Challenges for GORE in the era of Learning-based AI
Travis Breaux
Dr. Breaux is the Director of the CMU Requirements Engineering Lab, where his research program investigates how to specify and design software to comply with policy and law in a trustworthy, reliable manner. His work historically concerned the empirical extraction of legal requirements from policies and law, and has recently studied how to use formal specifications to reason about privacy policy compliance, how to measure and reason over ambiguous and vague policies, and how security and privacy experts and novices estimate the risk of system designs.
Giancarlo Guizzardi is a Full Professor of Software Science and Evolution as well as Chair and Department Head of Semantics, Cybersecurity & Services (SCS) at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. He is also an Affiliated/Guest Professor at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) at Stockholm University, in Sweden. He has been active for nearly three decades in the areas of Formal and Applied Ontology, Conceptual Modeling, Enterprise Computing and Information Systems Engineering, working with a multidisciplinary approach in Computer Science that aggregates results from Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Logics and Linguistics. He is the main contributor to the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) and to the OntoUML modeling language. Over the years, he has delivered keynote speeches in several key international conferences in these fields (e.g., ER, CAiSE, BPM, IEEE ICSC). He is currently an associate editor of a number of journals including Applied Ontology and Data & Knowledge Engineering, a co-editor of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing series, and a member of several international journal editorial boards. He is also a member of the Steering Committees of ER, CAiSE, EDOC, and IEEE CBI, and of the Advisory Board of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA). Finally, he is an ER fellow.
Eric Yu is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Information and Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto and was appointed to the Faculty of Information in 1995. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Previous to his career in academia he held positions in hardware, software, and services development at Bell and Nortel laboratories in Ottawa.
Prof. Yu’s research interests include software requirements engineering, conceptual modeling, information systems engineering, knowledge management, and enterprise modeling. He was the originator of the i* agent- and goal-oriented modeling framework, which brings social and organizational modeling into information and software systems analysis and design. A version of i* is part of an international standard. He was Program Co- Chair for ER 2008 and 2014, and for CAiSE 2020.
He received the Peter P. Chen Award in 2019 and the ER Fellow Award in 2022.