NOW THE TWAIN SHALL MEET: COMBINING SOCIAL SCIENCES AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING TO SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF EMERGENT SYSTEMS

9th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 2738-2744

  Purao, Sandeep ^a   Truex, Duane ^b   Cao, Lan ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

design space; Information system development; problem space; representation techniques

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TAPS;

COMMUNITY IS; DESIGN SPACES; INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PROBLEM SPACE; REPRESENTATION TECHNIQUES; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; RESEARCH QUESTIONS; SOCIAL SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 84857529409     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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