Accountability as a Foundation for Requirements in Sociotechnical Systems

We understand sociotechnical systems (STSs) as uniting social and technical tiers to provide abstractions for capturing how autonomous principals interact with each other. Accountability is a foundational concept in STSs an essential component of achieving ethical outcomes. In simple terms, accountability involves identifying who can call whom account must accounting what when. Although any application involving parties, established methods do not support it. formulate requirement one where principal accountable another regarding some conditional expectation. Our metamodel captures requirements relational constructs inspired from legal concepts, such commitments, authorization, prohibition. apply our healthcare process show it helps address the problems ineffective interaction identified original case study.