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A Layered Context Perspective on the Design of Enterprises and Information Systems

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Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems

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Most information systems requirements approaches mirror the techniques of business planning methods prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s. This was a period in which requirements, like plans, could be established in advance, and then implemented. Gradual changes in requirements could be analyzed and foreseen, and could result in slight modification requests.

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  1. IBM TJ Watson Research Center, 30 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY, 10532, USA

    Ian Simmonds

  2. IBM Advanced Business Institute, Route 9W, Palisades, NY, 10964-8001, USA

    David Ing

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  1. Genesis Development Corporation, USA

    Haim Kilov

  2. Technische Universität München, Germany

    Bernhard Rumpe

  3. IBM T J Watson Research Center, USA

    Ian Simmonds

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Simmonds, I., Ing, D. (1999). A Layered Context Perspective on the Design of Enterprises and Information Systems. In: Kilov, H., Rumpe, B., Simmonds, I. (eds) Behavioral Specifications of Businesses and Systems. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 523. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5229-1_16

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