Communication is Care: Requirement-Based Platform Architecture Design to Enable Pharmacists' and General Practitioners' Interoperability Needs in Dutch First-Line Healthcare

The Dutch first-line healthcare domain faces challenges arising from an ageing population and resource limitations, accentuating the need for an effective IT domain. Inadequate interoperability and data portability between information systems used by healthcare organisations in daily processes hinder patient treatment and innovation. This study...

Multi-Level Fairness Framework: A Socio-Technical framework for Fairness Requirements Engineering in Machine Learning

Machine Learning models are begin increasingly used within the industry such as by financial institutions, governments and commercial companies. In the past few years, there have been several incidents where these ML models show discriminatory behavior towards particular groups of people, leading to unfair decisions that can have negative...

Towards Engineering AI Software for Fairness: A framework to help design fair, accountable and transparent algorithmic decision-making systems

Algorithmic decision-making (ADM) is becoming increasingly prevalent in society, due to the rapid technological developments in Artificial Intelligence. ADM make substantially impactful decisions about people: diagnosing whether we have a disease, what news and which ads we get to see, whether we<br/>are eligible for a job, benefits, a college...

Requirements Engineering Practices in Global Software Engineering Organizations: A Study in the Banking Industry

In this thesis we report on our investigation of requirements engineering (RE) practices and challenges in global software engineering (GSE) settings. We conducted a literature survey and a series of interviews/surveys to reach our goal. The subject of the research is the banking industry in the Netherlands actively involved in GSE. More...

Transparency in actions on requirements

The combination between agile software engineering and distributed engineering is gaining a growing interest. Combining these however creates an interesting paradox. Where agile clearly states that documentation is not the most important thing, from the field of globally distributed engineering a higher focus on documentation is observed. In...

Customer Involvement in Distributed Requirements Engineering

The graduation project is run as an internship at software company Exact. The company wants to reduce the time to market for their products. To achieve this objective, Exact wants to adopt agile development and is aiming towards the implementation of a development process that is both globally distributed and Scrum-like. The project’s goal in...