MCDM Approach for Generating and Evaluating Alternatives in Requirement Analysis

Hemant K. Jain, Mohan R. Tanniru and Bijan Fazlollahi
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Hemant K. Jain: School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201
Mohan R. Tanniru: School of Management, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13210
Bijan Fazlollahi: School of Business Administration, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303

Information Systems Research, 1991, vol. 2, issue 3, 223-239

Abstract: Determining user requirements and generating alternative system solutions to meet these requirements are two critical steps in the requirement analysis phase of the system development life cycle. Much of the MIS research in the requirement analysis phase has been devoted to the topic of requirement determination and its verification. Alternative generation and evaluation is left, to a significant degree, to the judgment and expertise of an analyst. This paper proposes a multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) approach for generating and evaluating alternatives when the user requirements are expressed in terms of certain operational criteria such as time, cost, risk, etc. These alternatives form the basis for the user to make the necessary trade-offs.

Keywords: requirement analysis; alternative generation; goal programming; information system design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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