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Please predict whether this patent is acceptable.PATENT ABSTRACT: Embodiments disclosed herein include systems, methods, and apparatuses for managing requirements for an existing or proposed objective system. An information system in accordance with one embodiment includes one or more processors and storage coupled to the one or more processors. The storage is configured to represent requirements data, including one or more requirements for the objective system, and a particular state of the requirements data for the objective system, including subsystems of the objective system. The particular state of the requirements data includes a particular discrete information quality level for each requirement. The processors are programmed to calculate a requirements information entropy metric, HR, for the particular state, and to calculate an additional information increment ΔI. The additional information increment ΔI represents an amount of additional information necessary to transform the requirements data from the particular state of the requirements data to a desired state of the requirements data.