Developing guidelines for designing a design-decision support system to enhance requirement identification in helicopter industry

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2023-6-20

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Coşkun, Abdullah Enes

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Requirements identification is a critical process in product design and development as it affects the product's life cycle in terms of many factors such as specifications, design quality, cost, production, and marketing. Requirements identification in the helicopter industry has many complexities due to the active participation of the stakeholders involved and the decision-making processes that require cooperation among the stakeholders. This process can be supported by the contribution of digital technologies, especially decision support systems as examples of computer-supported cooperative work. This thesis aims to explore the design requirements of a design-decision support system that can be used to improve requirements identification processes. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were conducted with six requirements engineers, five managers and two representatives of external stakeholders within a company operating in the helicopter industry. Throughout the interviews, opinions and insights were gathered about the problems faced in requirements identification processes and how these processes can be improved and supported. A prototype design-decision support system was presented to the participants, and feedback was gathered on its use and qualities. This thesis identifies the design requirements of design-decision support systems that can be developed for use in the helicopter industry concerning the issues faced in practice.

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design-decision support system, computer supported cooperative work, helicopter design, requirement identification

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/104508

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis