TY - GEN
T1 - Semiotic modelling for complex enterprise systems
AU - Liu, Kecheng
AU - Sun, Lily
AU - Rong, Wenge
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - An enterprise is viewed as a complex system which can be engineered to accomplish organisational objectives. Systems analysis and modelling will enable to the planning and development of the enterprise and IT systems. Many IT systems design methods focus on functional and non-functional requirements of the IT systems. Most methods are normally capable of one but leave out other aspects. Analysing and modelling of both business and IT systems may often have to call on techniques from various suites of methods which may be placed on different philosophic and methodological underpinnings. Coherence and consistency between the analyses are hard to ensure. This paper introduces the Problem Articulation Method (PAM) which facilitates the design of an enterprise system infrastructure on which an IT system is built. Outcomes of this analysis represent requirements which can be further used for planning and designing a technical system. As a case study, a finance system, Agresso, for e-procurement has been used in this paper to illustrate the applicability of PAM in modelling complex systems.
AB - An enterprise is viewed as a complex system which can be engineered to accomplish organisational objectives. Systems analysis and modelling will enable to the planning and development of the enterprise and IT systems. Many IT systems design methods focus on functional and non-functional requirements of the IT systems. Most methods are normally capable of one but leave out other aspects. Analysing and modelling of both business and IT systems may often have to call on techniques from various suites of methods which may be placed on different philosophic and methodological underpinnings. Coherence and consistency between the analyses are hard to ensure. This paper introduces the Problem Articulation Method (PAM) which facilitates the design of an enterprise system infrastructure on which an IT system is built. Outcomes of this analysis represent requirements which can be further used for planning and designing a technical system. As a case study, a finance system, Agresso, for e-procurement has been used in this paper to illustrate the applicability of PAM in modelling complex systems.
KW - Business domain analysis
KW - Design of enterprise systems
KW - Organisational semiotics
KW - Problem articulation method
KW - Requirements modelling
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84903826161
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:84903826161
SN - 9780980605723
T3 - Information Systems in the Changing Era: Theory and Practice - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, ICISO 2009
SP - 299
EP - 309
BT - Information Systems in the Changing Era
PB - Aussino Academic Publishing House
T2 - 11th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations - Information Systems in the Changing Era: Theory and Practice, ICISO 2009
Y2 - 11 April 2009 through 12 April 2009
ER -