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Information systems development through social structures

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Paolo Giorgini,

John MylopoulosAuthors Info & Claims

SEKE '02: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering

Pages 183 - 190

https://doi.org/10.1145/568760.568792

Published: 15 July 2002 Publication History

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Information systems for organizations such as e-business and knowledge management systems must continually evolve to adapt to their operational environment. Unfortunately, current development methodologies do not support system evolution well, making software an obstacle to organizational changes. The paper describes a framework that develops and evolves seamlessly a system-to-be within its organizational environment. We adopt a set of social structures --- organizational styles and social patterns --- based on concepts of organization theory and agent approaches, as a foundation to model early and late requirements as well as architectural and detailed design. We illustrate the use of the social structures through a case study, and we specify one of the styles in Formal Tropos language. This research has been conducted within the context of the Tropos project.

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Index Terms

Information systems development through social structures
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
        Systems analysis and design
      2. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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