Identifying Concerns When Specifying Machine Learning-Enabled Systems: A Perspective-Based Approach

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I would like to express my sincere gratitude to those who supported me during the completion of this thesis. First and foremost, I am grateful to my supervisor, Professor Marcos Kalinowski, who has been an invaluable source of guidance and support throughout my academic and professional journey. I truly appreciate the freedom he gave me to explore my ideas and his guidance to help me develop them in the right direction. Marcos has taught me the importance of being a team player, a leader, and a researcher, and has been an inspiring role model both personally and professionally. His dedication to his students, his integrity, and his willingness to invest time and effort in helping us learn and explore different paths has been truly remarkable. I will always be grateful for his mentorship and the impact he has had on my life.I am also grateful to Professor Dan Berry, Professor Daniel Mendez, Professor Hélio Lopes, and Professor Sérgio Lifschitz for the constructive feedback as members of my thesis proposal committee and for accepting to be part of my thesis defense assessment board. I also thank Professor Tatiana Escovedo and all colleagues of the ExACTa lab for their collaboration and the friendly working atmosphere over the years. This mix of experiences helped me a lot to lay the foundations for this thesis.Bureaucracy can make the lives of doctoral students very difficult due to the numerous setbacks and administrative issues to be resolved. I would like to thank all the administrative staff of the Informatics Department at PUC-Rio for their help, especially Alex Alves, Cosme Leal, and Vagner Pires.Achieving a balance between academic commitments and personal life was essential to reach this point. That's why I thank