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Contexts in Information Systems Development

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Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices (ICCS 1999)

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This paper looks at information systems development as a process of gathering and unifying user requirements that usually carry only partial and conditional descriptions of the system. It has been suggested to use context dependent requirements specifications to formalize the requirements and conditional conceptual graphs to create a global system model. A procedure for context dependent requirements unification has been described and an example given.

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  1. University of Technology, Sydney

    Ryszard Raban

  2. Deakin University, Australian

    Brian Garner

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  1. Software Engineering Department, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, 07764-1898, USA

    William M. Tepfenhart

  2. The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Automatic Design Research Group, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA

    Walling Cyre

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Raban, R., Garner, B. (1999). Contexts in Information Systems Development. In: Tepfenhart, W.M., Cyre, W. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Standards and Practices. ICCS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1640. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48659-3_26

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