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Software systems have become one of the most valuable assets of modern organizations, where they play a critical role in supporting operational and decision processes. Nevertheless, despite the large part of organizations' resources invested in information technology, development of software systems faces many problems recognized by the termsoftware crisis. To reduce the economic and social impacts of this crisis, one widely acknowledged approach has been to improve software processes and software development methods supporting them. However, as stressed by many authors, such solutions of the software crisis are partial and incomplete and present many weaknesses related to their technical orientation. In this paper, we present a knowledge-oriented and cooperative software development framework process in order to improve the existing solutions of the software crisis. This framework considers software systems as an accumulation of knowledge. It proposes a cooperative guidance to gather the knowledge necessary to software products design and distributed among various stakeholders.
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Toffolon, C., Dakhli, S. (2009). KNOC: A Knowledge-Oriented Cooperative Software Development Process. In: Wojtkowski, W., Wojtkowski, G., Lang, M., Conboy, K., Barry, C. (eds) Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68772-8_38
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