Beatrice Alenljung

Biography

Assistant professor at School of Humanities and Informatics, University of Skövde, Sweden Member of the Information Systems Research Group Director of Graduate Studies Representative of cognitive science (undergraduate studies)

Research Interest

Current research interest is requirements engineering (RE) decision-making and RE decision support. The decision situation of the requirements engineer can be both complex and difficult to manage, due to for example the getting a general view of the large amount of information made by the requirements and that multiple persons are involved. Therefore it is important to provide the requirements engineers with appropriate decision support, for example requirements management tools that are adapted to the actual tasks. To be able to improve such decision support comprehension of the requirements engineers’ decision situation is essential, e.g. which decisions are actually made; which factors affect them; what decision-making activities do they carry out; and which decision processed exists? With this understanding as a base it is possible to approach what kind of decision support requirements engineers need and how such a support should be constituted.