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Software systems are becoming an integral part of everyday life influencing organizational and social activities. This aggravates the need for a socio-technical perspective for requirements engineering, which allows for modeling and analyzing the composition and interaction of hardware and software com-ponents with human and organizational actors. Socio-technical systems (STS), as opposed to the traditional technical com-puter base systems, include human agents as an integral part of their struc-ture. One important aspect of an STS is its dynamicity: an STS operates in a continuous evolving environment and, accordingly, its structure changes dynamically. Unlike the technical based system, an STS has the knowledge of how the system should be used to achieve some organizational objectives, and is normally regulated and constrained by internal organizational rules, external laws and regulations. In this setting, the thesis aims at developing a framework supporting