Modelling Organizations for Informat ion Systems Requirements Engineering
Eric S. K. Yu · 1992
In attempting to understand information system environments during requirements engineering, it is often helpful to have an understanding of the “whys” as well as the “whats” about the environment. A natural way to answer why questions is by tracing them to goals. In an organizational environment , however, the “whys” do not originate from a single set of given goals. Organizational agents depend on each other for goals to be achieved, tasks to be performed, and resources to be furnished. A requirements model that captures knowledge about an organizational environment can be enriched by including the network of dependency relationships among agents. In this paper, we propose a set of intentional operators for modelling dependencies among agents, and present a preliminary axiomatic charac.terization.