The SLEEC Framework for Normative Requirements Engineering

Abstract Autonomous agents are increasingly deployed in sensitive, human-centric domains—such as healthcare, assistive care, and emergency response—where their decision-making must align with complex human norms. These translate into Social, Legal, Ethical, Empathetic, and Cultural (SLEEC) requirements that are often nuanced and context-dependent, challenging traditional software engineering paradigms. Our tutorial paper presents a comprehensive, tool-supported methodology for managing the SLEEC requirements lifecycle, covering elicitation, well-formedness validation, and conformance verification of software design models against SLEEC requirements. We demonstrate the use of our methodology and associated tools through application to a robot-assisted dressing system, providing a guide for researchers and engineers to bridge the gap between abstract human norms and verifiable system designs.

Authors

• Pedro Ribeiro
• Radu Calinescu University of York
• Ana Cavalcanti
• Marsha Chechik
• Sinem Getir Yaman
• Lina Marsso
• Isobel Standen
• Beverley Townsend

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