Recently, there has been a growing interest in self-adaptive systems. Roadmap papers in this area point to feedback loops as a promising way of operationalizing adaptivity in such systems. In this paper, we define a new type of requirement — called Awareness Requirement — that can refer to other requirements and their success/failures. We propose a way to elicit and formalize such requirements and offer a requirements monitoring framework to support them.
}, keywords = {Requirements engineering, modeling, adaptive systems, awareness, monitoring}, author = {Vítor E. Silva Souza and Alexei Lapouchnian and William N. Robinson and John Mylopoulos} }