Authors:
John Perkins
and
Sharon Cox
Affiliation:
School of Computing, Faculty of Computing, Information and English, University of Central England, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Knowledge management, information systems analysis, supply-chain management, socio-technical systems, social activity theory, information requirements analysis, collaborative systems, e-commerce systems.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Engineering Methodologies
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Modeling of Distributed Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Semiotics
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Systems Engineering
Abstract:
E-commerce systems involve collaborative systems that support and enable trading partners to work together as members of communities of practice. Eliciting the information requirements necessary to design, develop and run these systems requires understanding of what practitioners do in practice, as well as what policy directives impose as practice. A practice-centric approach is proposed for identification of elements of practice, a brief summary is made of some tools and concepts from Social Activity Theory and their relevance for further analysis of collaborative system information requirements is assessed.