INFORMATION SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS DETERMINATION AND ANALYSIS: A MENTAL MODELING APPROACH

9th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 1370-1379

  Siau, Keng ^a   Tan, Xin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive mapping; concept mapping; Information systems development; mental modeling; mind mapping; requirements determination and analysis (RDA)

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

COGNITIVE MAPPING; CONCEPTS MAPPINGS; INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS REQUIREMENTS; MENTAL MODEL; MIND-MAPPING; MODELING APPROACH; REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS; REQUIREMENT DETERMINATION AND ANALYSE; REQUIREMENT DETERMINATIONS;

MAPPING;

EID: 85096362613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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