USER AUTONOMY IN REQUIREMENTS CHANGING SUPPORTED BY ORGANIZATIONAL SEMIOTICS AND TAILORING

Carlos Alberto Cocozza Simoni, Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas, Rodrigo Bonacin

2006

Abstract

Nowadays, organizations face the impact of changes from several sources. Literature points out that we still have a gap between the dynamic of the system maintenance and changes in the organizational processes. To cover this gap we consider the use of practices coming from Organizational Semiotics (OS) and Tailoring. OS allows a deep understanding of the organizational context and the technical system embedded in it, and Tailoring proposes to provide autonomy to users in dealing with changes in computer systems. This paper presents a case study developed in our University to explore and extend an existing approach to provide more autonomy to computer system users, according to the evolution of their business requirements.

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Alberto Cocozza Simoni C., Cecilia Calani Baranauskas M. and Bonacin R. (2006). USER AUTONOMY IN REQUIREMENTS CHANGING SUPPORTED BY ORGANIZATIONAL SEMIOTICS AND TAILORING . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-43-6, pages 493-496. DOI: 10.5220/0002492004930496


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis06,
author={Carlos Alberto Cocozza Simoni and Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas and Rodrigo Bonacin},
title={USER AUTONOMY IN REQUIREMENTS CHANGING SUPPORTED BY ORGANIZATIONAL SEMIOTICS AND TAILORING},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={493-496},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002492004930496},
isbn={978-972-8865-43-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - USER AUTONOMY IN REQUIREMENTS CHANGING SUPPORTED BY ORGANIZATIONAL SEMIOTICS AND TAILORING
SN - 978-972-8865-43-6
AU - Alberto Cocozza Simoni C.
AU - Cecilia Calani Baranauskas M.
AU - Bonacin R.
PY - 2006
SP - 493
EP - 496
DO - 10.5220/0002492004930496