Examining the Role of Inference in Understanding Requirements Process during Information Systems Development

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dc.contributor.author	Rai, Sudhanshu
dc.contributor.author	Chakraborty, Suranjan
dc.contributor.author	Sarker, Suprateek
dc.date.accessioned	2010-05-25
dc.date.accessioned	2010-05-25T12:03:34Z
dc.date.available	2010-05-25T12:03:34Z
dc.date.issued	2010-05-25
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8056
dc.description.abstract	Requirement analysis RE has continued to attract attention among information system researchers. The inquiry into exploring how RE actually unfolds as an intellectual exercise is the central preoccupation of this paper. Here we identify requirement analysis as an inferential process, and go on to explaining how the inference unfolds during requirement analysis, then we argue that the IS literature calls an aspect of the RE process an intellectual activity. We think the term intellectual activity is much too broad and we want to explore what constitutes this intellectual activity. We identify the constitution of the intellectual activity as inference and then discuss instances of inference where problems might occur due to contextual diversity. We conjecture that the problem of inference is such that instances of the client’s environment is not able to be transmitted in the same sense using the same logical consistency as the inferring themes might require to understand the concept along with the context. In order to address this problem we use the nature of inference in “Naiyayika” from the Indian logicians and argue that, this school allows for the empirical embedding of the context in the formal syllogism.	en_US
dc.format.extent	7 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	Department of Informatics	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Paper;3
dc.subject.other	Indian logic	en_US
dc.subject.other	Requirement analysis	en_US
dc.subject.other	information system development	en_US
dc.title	Examining the Role of Inference in Understanding Requirements Process during Information Systems Development	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt10maj25 mamo	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for Informatik	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	INF	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of Informatics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	INF	en_US
dc.idnumber	x656600399	en_US
dc.publisher.city	Frederiksberg	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2010	en_US