Composite Public Values and Software Specifications

Composite Public Values and Software Specifications

Garvanova, Magdalena (University of Library Studies and Information Technologies)
Shishkov, Boris (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Interdisciplinary Institute for Collaboration and Research on Enterprise Systems and Technology (IICREST))
Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology)

2018

Public values are desires of the general public, that are about properties considered societally valuable, such as respecting the privacy of citizens or prohibiting polluting activities. “Translating” public values into functional solutions is thus an actual challenge. Even though Value-Sensitive Design (VSD) is about weaving public values in the design of (technical) systems, it stays insufficiently concrete as it concerns the alignment between abstract public values and technical (software) solutions. Still, VSD indirectly inspires ideas in that direction as for example the idea to consider business process variants for achieving such an alignment. Nevertheless, this is all about “atomic” public values (encapsulating only one particular behavioral goal) while one would often face public values that are “composite” in the sense that they reflect a particular human attitude rather than just a desired behavioral goal. In the current paper, we propose a value decomposition approach that allows for operationalizing composite public values. We also present experimental results featuring data analytics using self-administrated surveys.

Data analytics
Public values
Software specification

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8dee941d-9be4-4d45-a919-43e403c47a2e

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94214-8_32

Springer

9783319942131

Proceedings of Business Modeling and Software Design - 8th International Symposium, BMSD 2018, 319

8th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2018, 2018-07-02 → 2018-07-04, Vienna, Austria

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, 1865-1348, 319

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© 2018 Magdalena Garvanova, Boris Shishkov, M.F.W.H.A. Janssen