BRINGING SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS TO THE INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS: Contributions of Organisational Semiotics

Carlos Alberto Cocozza Simoni, M. Cecília C. Baranaukas, Rodrigo Bonacin

2005

Abstract

Literature has shown the influence of the social, cultural and organisational aspects involved in the process of developing information systems. The Unified Process (UP) has been widely used in the software industry, but literature has shown its drawbacks when applied to the modelling of human actions in the social and organisational contexts. Our research investigates the use of Organisational Semiotics (OS) methods combined with the UP to compose a complete cycle of system development, aiming at bringing social constructs to the development process of information systems.

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Alberto Cocozza Simoni C., Cecília C. Baranaukas M. and Bonacin R. (2005). BRINGING SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS TO THE INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS: Contributions of Organisational Semiotics . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 112-119. DOI: 10.5220/0002523201120119


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@conference{iceis05,
author={Carlos Alberto Cocozza Simoni and M. Cecília C. Baranaukas and Rodrigo Bonacin},
title={BRINGING SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS TO THE INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS: Contributions of Organisational Semiotics},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={112-119},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002523201120119},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - BRINGING SOCIAL CONSTRUCTS TO THE INFORMATION SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS: Contributions of Organisational Semiotics
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Alberto Cocozza Simoni C.
AU - Cecília C. Baranaukas M.
AU - Bonacin R.
PY - 2005
SP - 112
EP - 119
DO - 10.5220/0002523201120119