Information architectures: methods and practice
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Extending and formalizing the framework for information systems architecture
IBM Systems Journal
AGENTS '98 Proceedings of the second international conference on Autonomous agents
A proposal for a scenario classification framework
Requirements Engineering
A semiotics framework for information systems classification and development
Decision Support Systems
BIG: an agent for resource-bounded information gathering and decision making
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on Intelligent internet systems
Industrial semiosis: founding the deployment of the ubiquitous information infrastructure
Computers in Industry - Special issue on intelligent manufacturing systems
Semiotics in information systems engineering
Semiotics in information systems engineering
Extracting focused knowledge from the semantic web
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Towards a Distributed, Environment-Centered Agent Framework
ATAL '99 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Agents VI, Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL),
Development of industrial information systems on the web using business components
Computers in Industry - Advanced web technologies for industrial applications
Process mining: a research agenda
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Process/workflow mining
Computers in Industry - Special issue: Process/workflow mining
A decision algorithm for ERP systems alignment
International Journal of Business Information Systems
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Today, information systems (IS) occupy a prime position in our organisations. However, over 60% of IS projects represent a failure in terms of exceeding the budget, the deadlines and also in terms of unsatisfied requirements. Exceeding the deadlines in IS projects can be attributed, among others, to an inaccurate definition of the IS architecture during the preliminary study phase. The aim of this article is to suggest a reliable approach to working out a ''preliminary'' architecture. According to the state of the art, architecture design must combine an overall analysis of the IS and its reason for existing while guiding the choice of technological components. We develop, and illustrate with an industrial study-case, an approach to IS preliminary architecture design. It combines dialectic analysis as put forward in the OTSM-TRIZ theory [N. Khomenko, D. Kucharavy, OTSM-TRIZ problem solving process: solutions and their classification, in: Etria World Conference-TRIZ Future 2002, Strasbourg, France, 2002], and semiotics into a key-problem framework. Then, through a sequence of steps based on other OTSM-TRIZ principles, it proposes to exploit this framework and lead to a target architecture.