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Article: Mapping activity theory diagrams into [i.sup.*] organizational models.
- Article from:
- Journal of Computer Science & Technology
- Article date:
- August 1, 2005
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ABSTRACT
Modern requirement engineering approaches divide the elicitation process in two different stages: one focused on analyzing the context where the system-to-be will be used and another centered on designing software solutions appropriated to the context modeled. An adequate framework for assisting context analysis is offered by the Activity Theory, a philosophic and interdisciplinary structure to study different forms of human practice that adopts the activity as the basic unit of analysis. However, there are still no methods for integrating context analysis based on Activity Theory and traditional requirement specifications techniques. In a previous work, ...
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