Distributed priority ranking of strategic preliminary requirements for management information systems in economic organizations

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 960-984

  Sobczak, Andrzej ^a   Berry, Daniel M ^b  

^a WARSAW SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process (AHP); Balanced Scorecard planes; Borda Scoring; Economic organization; FocalPoint; Management information system (MIS); Preliminary requirements; Priority ranking; Requirements engineering (RE); Stakeholder; Strategy; Technique for order preference by similarity to the ideal solution (TOPSIS); Web based application; Weighted sum model (WSM)

Indexed keywords

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; WEB SERVICES;

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); BALANCED SCORECARD PLANES; ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION; PRELIMINARY REQUIREMENTS; WEB-BASED APPLICATION; WEIGHTED SUM MODEL (WSM);

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 34347400785     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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