DASS: Principled Software Design and Accountability

DASS：有原则的软件设计和责任

• 批准号: 2131515
• 负责人: Jane Huang
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-11-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2131515&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DASS; Principled; Software; Design; Accountability

This research project sets out a new approach to designing software that is accountable to law, referred to as Principled Software Design and Accountability (PSDA). Legal principles will be distilled from legislation or the common law and augmented by a series of concrete questions whose answers will guide software developers through the process of designing legally compliant software systems. The research will engage diverse stakeholders including legal experts, regulators, sociologists, and software developers, and will explore the integration of PSDA into software design and analysis techniques. By developing techniques aimed at accountability, design solutions will be modeled within their legal context to enable stakeholders to analyze compliance to legal principles. In the future, PSDA could play a major part in shaping the role and responsibilities of software engineers and enabling the rise of a new type of software specialist, skilled in the development of PSDA software, its applications, and its performance assessment. The proposed research maps out this new role and the ensuing education and training required. In addition, the project will develop and disseminate tools to support accountable design, and will deliver pedagogical materials through a new course in interactive Principled Software development.The interdisciplinary nature of the work, and the need to engage legal experts, psychologists, and software engineers creates a challenging research space which will be explored through focus groups, grounded theory, and design research techniques. Delivering PSDA requires weaving together a holistic, multi-disciplinary solution supported by deep-learning technologies to provide full life-cycle traceability and the creation of persistent, tamperproof records of PSDA flows for creating digital reports. PSDA logs will be built upon relationship-preserving auditable flows, representing design decisions and their rationales, and capable of generating legally compliant paper documents that bind to the digital thread to provide full lineage and rationale behind PSDA decisions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这一研究项目提出了一种设计对法律负责的软件的新方法，称为原则性软件设计和问责(PSDA)。法律原则将从立法或普通法中提炼出来，并辅之以一系列具体的问题，这些问题的答案将指导软件开发人员完成设计符合法律规定的软件系统的过程。这项研究将涉及不同的利益相关者，包括法律专家、监管机构、社会学家和软件开发人员，并将探索将PSDA整合到软件设计和分析技术中。通过开发旨在问责的技术，设计解决方案将在其法律背景下建模，以使利益攸关方能够分析对法律原则的遵守情况。在未来，PSDA可以在塑造软件工程师的作用和责任方面发挥重要作用，并促进新型软件专家的崛起，他们熟练地开发PSDA软件、其应用程序及其绩效评估。拟议的研究规划了这一新角色以及随后所需的教育和培训。此外，该项目将开发和传播支持责任设计的工具，并将通过交互式原则性软件开发的新课程提供教学材料。这项工作的跨学科性质，以及需要聘请法律专家、心理学家和软件工程师，创造了一个具有挑战性的研究空间，将通过焦点小组、扎根理论和设计研究技术进行探索。交付PSDA需要在深度学习技术的支持下编织一个全面的、多学科的解决方案，以提供完整的生命周期可追溯性，并创建持久的、防篡改的PSDA流程记录，以创建数字报告。PSDA日志将建立在保持关系的可审计流程的基础上，代表设计决策及其原理，并能够生成合法合规的纸质文档，这些文档绑定到数字线索，以提供PSDA决策背后的完整谱系和原理。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Using ChatGPT to Generate Human-Value User Stories as Inspirational Triggers

使用 ChatGPT 生成具有人类价值的用户故事作为鼓舞人心的触发器

• DOI: 10.1109/rew57809.2023.00016
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Marczak-Czajka, Agnieszka;Cleland-Huang, Jane
• 通讯作者: Cleland-Huang, Jane

Trust in the Context of Blockchain Applications

区块链应用背景下的信任

• DOI: 10.1109/bcca55292.2022.9922068
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: IEEE
• 作者: You, Shengwei;Radivojevic, Kristina;Nabrzyski, Jarek;Brenner, Paul
• 通讯作者: Brenner, Paul

A global digital identity for all: the next evolution

所有人的全球数字身份：下一个演变

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Policy Design and Practice
• 影响因子: 7
• 作者: Dr Clare Sullivan;Scott Tyson
• 通讯作者: Scott Tyson

Accountable Design for Individual, Societal, and Regulated Values in the UAV Domain

无人机领域个人、社会和监管价值观的负责任设计

• DOI: 10.1109/re57278.2023.00037
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Marczak-Czajka, Agnieszka;Nabrzyski, Jarek;Cleland-Huang, Jane
• 通讯作者: Cleland-Huang, Jane