An Integer Programming Model for Embedding Social Values into Software Requirement Selection

Abstract: The existing software requirement selection methods have mainly focused on optimizing the economic value of a software product while ignoring its social values and their long-term impacts on the society. Social values however, are also important and need to be taken into account in software requirement selection. Moreover, social values of software requirements may change in the presence or absence of other requirements due to the value dependencies among those requirements. These dependencies are imprecise and hard to specify in software projects. This paper presents an Integer Programming (IP) model for the integration of social values and dependencies among them into software requirement selection. We further, account for the imprecision of social values and dependencies among them using the algebraic structure of fuzzy graphs.