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Communications of the ACM
A generational perspective of information system development
Communications of the ACM
An information algebra: phase 1 report—language structure group of the CODASYL development committee
Communications of the ACM
The New Science of Management Decision
The New Science of Management Decision
Information Systems
Requirements expression and verification aid
ICSE '78 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Software engineering
A methodology for modeling an organization to determine and derive information systems requirements
A methodology for modeling an organization to determine and derive information systems requirements
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ACM SIGMIS Database
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ACM SIGMIS Database
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ACM SIGMIS Database - Proceedings of a conference on Application Development Systems, Santa Clara, California, March 10-11, 1980
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ACM SIGMIS Database - Proceedings of a conference on Application Development Systems, Santa Clara, California, March 10-11, 1980
Information requirements determination: obstacles within, among and between participants
SIGCPR '85 Proceedings of the twenty-first annual conference on Computer personnel research
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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Comparison of analysis techniques for information requirement determination
Communications of the ACM
Systems analysis: a systemic analysis of a conceptual model
Communications of the ACM
Improving information requirements determination: a cognitive perspective
Information and Management
A framework of reference for database design
ACM SIGMIS Database
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Information Resources Management Journal
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The issue of information requirements of an organization and their specifications span two isolated territories. One territory is that of organization and management and the other belongs to technicians. There is a considerable gap between these two territories. Research in requirements engineering (technician's side) has primarily concentrated on designing and developing formal languages to document and analyze user requirements, once they have been determined. This research has ignored the organizational issues involved in information requirements determination. Research in the field of organization and management has addressed the organizational issues which affect information requirements of an organization. Various frameworks reported in the literature provide insights, but they cannot be considered as methods of determining requirements. Little work has been done on the process of determining requirements. This process must start with the understanding of an organization and end with a formal specification of information requirements. Here, it is worth emphasizing the fact that the process of determining and specifying information requirements of an organization is very different from the process of specifying design requirements of an information system. Therefore, program design methodologies, which are helpful in designing a system are not suitable for the process of determining and specifying information requirements of an organization.This paper discusses the state of the art in information requirements determination methodologies. Excluded are those methodologies which emphasize system design and have little to offer for requirements determination of an organization.