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This paper presents an overview of Communication Analysis, an approach to enterprise information systems (ISs) modelling that adopts a communicational perspective. It consists of a method and its underlying requirements structure. The proposed approach is conceived to be conceptually sound (it is founded on settled knowledge from various scientific fields), practically prescriptive (it offers guidance and criteria) and flexible (it offers specific strategies to deal with static and dynamic aspects of ISs). Both the method and the structure have been proved to be successful in complex projects.
Research supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MSI) project SESAMO (TIN2007-62894), the MSI FPU grant (AP2006-02323), and FEDER.
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González, A., España, S., Pastor, Ó. (2008). Towards a Communicational Perspective for Enterprise Information Systems Modelling. In: Stirna, J., Persson, A. (eds) The Practice of Enterprise Modeling. PoEM 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89218-2_5
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