Co-adaptive processes of stakeholder networks and their effects on information systems specifications

ABSTRACT

Information System's (IS) requirements inadequacy and volatility are major IS project risks leading to failed, over budget, or over schedule projects. Within requirements determination, an area of focus for the inadequacy and volatility issue is the application domain (i.e., business domain). One step towards better requirements determination methods, techniques, and tools for the application domain would be a theoretically-grounded model for specification emergence and evolution. This paper presents a model of specification emergence and evolution that is confirmed using a case study.

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• Computing methodologies

  • Modeling and simulation

    • Simulation theory

      • Systems theory

• Mathematics of computing

  • Information theory

• Social and professional topics

  • Professional topics

    • Computing education

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        • Computer science education

        • Information science education

    • Management of computing and information systems

      • Project and people management

• Software and its engineering

  • Software creation and management

    • Software development process management

      • Software development methods

  • Software organization and properties

    • Software system structures

      • Software architectures

• Theory of computation

  • Logic

  • Semantics and reasoning

    • Program reasoning