Systems Analysis and Design: Techniques, Methodologies, Approaches, and Architectures (Advances in Management Information Systems)

SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN......Page 2
Cover
......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 8
SERIES EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14
INTRODUCTION......Page 18
VARIOUS CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES FOR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN RESEARCH......Page 19
CLASSIFYING CHAPTERS IN THIS VOLUME......Page 20
REFERENCES......Page 23
PART I TECHNIQUES FOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION......Page 24
MOTIVATION......Page 26
SERVICES, FLOWS, AND QUALITIES......Page 27
DYNAMIC FLOW MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE......Page 32
CONCLUSION AND RESEARCH DIRECTIONS......Page 34
REFERENCES......Page 35
INTRODUCTION......Page 36
COMMUNICATION......Page 38
COMMUNICATION FOR REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION......Page 42
REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION TECHNIQUES AS COMMUNICATION CHANNELS......Page 44
IMPLICATIONS FOR REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION PRACTICE AND RESEARCH......Page 46
REFERENCES......Page 47
PART II METHODOLOGY FOUNDATION AND EVOLUTION OF SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN......Page 50
INTRODUCTION......Page 52
ITERATION DEFINED......Page 53
COGNITIVE ITERATION IN DESIGN......Page 55
ITERATIONS OVER REPRESENTATIONAL ARTIFACTS......Page 60
DISCUSSION......Page 66
CONCLUSION......Page 68
REFERENCES......Page 69
INTRODUCTION......Page 73
RESEARCH APPROACH......Page 74
THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK......Page 75
THE EMERGENT METHODS’ FORMS AND DRIVERS......Page 83
CONCLUSION......Page 84
REFERENCES......Page 85
INTRODUCTION......Page 87
THE TRANSITION PROCESS......Page 88
THE RESEARCH FRAMEWORK......Page 89
DATA ANALYSIS......Page 90
REFERENCES......Page 105
APPENDIX 6.1. SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CULTURE QUESTIONNAIRE......Page 107
APPENDIX 6.2. SYSTEMS ANALYSTS QUESTIONNAIRE......Page 108
PART III AGENT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS ANALYSISAND DESIGN METHODOLOGIES......Page 110
INTRODUCTION......Page 112
TROPOS......Page 113
CASE STUDY......Page 116
EARLY REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS......Page 117
LATE REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS......Page 118
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN......Page 122
DETAILED DESIGN......Page 124
RELATED WORK......Page 128
CONCLUSIONS......Page 129
REFERENCES......Page 130
INTRODUCTION......Page 133
AGENT-ORIENTED METHODOLOGIES......Page 134
AN ALTERNATIVE TO A SINGLE AGENT-ORIENTED METHODOLOGY: SITUATIONAL METHOD ENGINEERING......Page 138
THE OPEN PROCESS FRAMEWORK: ITS USE IN AGENT-ORIENTED METHOD ENGINEERING......Page 139
REFERENCES......Page 149
PART IV NEW APPROACHES AND ARCHITECTURES FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT......Page 154
INTRODUCTION......Page 156
A REVIEW OF APPROACHES TO DOMAIN MODELING......Page 157
BASIC CONCEPTS OF THE FACT-BASED APPROACH......Page 160
THE GYMNASTIC CASE STUDY......Page 162
THE ORTHODOX DOMAIN ANALYSIS PROCESS......Page 163
USING ORM AS A SUPPLEMENTARY TECHNIQUE......Page 167
SUMMARY......Page 181
REFERENCES......Page 182
INTRODUCTION......Page 183
DERIVING THE DOMAIN REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE USING THE REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE REPRESENTATION ENVIRONMENT......Page 188
RELATED WORK......Page 204
ASSESSING THE VALUE OF RARE AND THE DRA IN THE CONTEXT OF A STANDARD SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS......Page 206
CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK......Page 210
REFERENCES......Page 212
INTRODUCTION......Page 216
MDA......Page 218
COMPILING OO-METHOD CONCEPTUAL MODELS......Page 226
OLIVANOVA MODEL EXECUTION, AN OO-METHOD IMPLEMENTATION......Page 229
OLIVANOVA MODELER......Page 230
REFERENCES......Page 235
EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS......Page 238
SERIES EDITOR......Page 246
INDEX......Page 248