TY - GEN
T1 - Designing multi-agent systems -the NDA-approach applied in health care
AU - Schweiger, Andreas
AU - Krcmar, Helmut
N1 - Funding Information:
Thanks are given to Mr. Michael A. Gaynes and Mr. Raymond G. Bayer of IBM-Endicott for many helpful discussions. The financial support of IBM-Endicott is gratefully acknowledged. The latter stages of this work was also supported by the New York State Science and Technology Foundation through the Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP) of Clarkson University and the Department of Energy (Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center). The use of the supercomputer facility of the Cornell University Theory Center is also gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - In this paper we introduce inherent problems of information logistics in health care. Promising research results on agent-based systems have allowed us to conclude that this approach is especially suitable to coping with these problems. In order to adequately capture the requirements of a complex setting, we present an approach for the design of agent-based systems. The basis forms the ethnography-based requirements analysis approach Needs Driven Approach (NDA). The NDA supports the participating observation of work processes and guides the construction of domain models. As a result of a field study, a meta-model is constructed which reflects the interrelationships of its elements. According to basic ideas of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), the elements of the meta-model are mapped to constructs of software engineering.
AB - In this paper we introduce inherent problems of information logistics in health care. Promising research results on agent-based systems have allowed us to conclude that this approach is especially suitable to coping with these problems. In order to adequately capture the requirements of a complex setting, we present an approach for the design of agent-based systems. The basis forms the ethnography-based requirements analysis approach Needs Driven Approach (NDA). The NDA supports the participating observation of work processes and guides the construction of domain models. As a result of a field study, a meta-model is constructed which reflects the interrelationships of its elements. According to basic ideas of the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), the elements of the meta-model are mapped to constructs of software engineering.
KW - Domain analysis
KW - Needs Driven Approach
KW - Requirements elicitation
KW - Transformation rules
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870023309
SN - 9781604235531
T3 - Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005: A Conference on a Human Scale
SP - 2136
EP - 2144
BT - Association for Information Systems - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005
T2 - 11th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2005
Y2 - 11 August 2005 through 15 August 2005
ER -