{"title":"Specification of management information systems combining data modeling and structured analysis","authors":"D. Reider, E. Kantorowitz, Y. Raz","doi":"10.1109/ICCSSE.1989.72714","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A method for specification of management information systems and a computer-aided tool for its implementation are presented. The method combines two dominant approaches, representing two different points of view of the specification process: data modeling, as reflected in the entity-relationship approach, and structured analysis. The method is implemented with a computer-aided tool, the Combined Specification System (CSS). CSS has the following goals: (1) supporting and guiding the system analyst in the steps of the specification process, while managing a user (system analyst)-system dialog; (2) organizing the accumulated information systematically, while cross checking for preciseness, completeness, consistency, and nonredundancy of the data; and (3) producing documentation that is simple and understandable by the end-user of the information system, yet comprehensive and concise for the system implementation. The method has been tested in the framework of an academic course on developing management information systems.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":448488,"journal":{"name":"[1989] Proceedings. The Fourth Israel Conference on Computer Systems and Software Engineering","volume":"228 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"[1989] Proceedings. The Fourth Israel Conference on Computer Systems and Software Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCSSE.1989.72714","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A method for specification of management information systems and a computer-aided tool for its implementation are presented. The method combines two dominant approaches, representing two different points of view of the specification process: data modeling, as reflected in the entity-relationship approach, and structured analysis. The method is implemented with a computer-aided tool, the Combined Specification System (CSS). CSS has the following goals: (1) supporting and guiding the system analyst in the steps of the specification process, while managing a user (system analyst)-system dialog; (2) organizing the accumulated information systematically, while cross checking for preciseness, completeness, consistency, and nonredundancy of the data; and (3) producing documentation that is simple and understandable by the end-user of the information system, yet comprehensive and concise for the system implementation. The method has been tested in the framework of an academic course on developing management information systems.<>