Here is the first book to offer a practical way to identify systems requirements and manage them when budgets and schedules are tight. It describes a process that leads from fuzzy, ill-defined requirements to requirements that can be modeled and prototyped. Managing Systems Requirements presents methods for communicating requirements and achieving buy-in from system users and owners before expensive programming begins. There are techniques, tools, and software suggestions for project managers and systems analysts, plus case studies that illustrate how the whole requirements gathering process works. The cornerstone of the book is its practicality: it combines in one place a suite of methods, templates, off-the-shelf computer-based tools, and real-world examples that software developers can use to get a handle on software requirements and solve the problems they face every day on the job. IS managers, system project managers, systems analysts, and programmers will find the book indispensable and value how it integrates technical methods with organizational realities.

Managing Systems Requirements: Methods, Tools, and Cases

Andriole, Stephen J.

Business & Money

McGraw=Hill

Cognitive Systems Engineering for User-computer Interface Design, Prototyping, and Evaluation

Computers & Technology

Adelman, Leonard

Computer Science

CRC-Press

For prototyping to be effective, prototypes must be fast and cheap. This book shows you how to accomplish these goals and presents a new method for systems requirements validation called storyboarding. Describes how to develop a series of screen displays before actual programming begins and how to use these displays to validate user requirements as well as to size the subsequent system development process.

Rapid Application Prototyping: The Storyboard Approach to User Requirements Analysis

*A Wiley-QED Publication

This volume seeks to answer the question: "Can findings from cognitive science enhance the user-computer interaction process?" In so doing, it recognizes that user-computer interfaces (UCIs) are often essential parts of an information or decision support system -- and often critical components of software-intensive systems of all kinds. From the outset, the authors note that the design, prototyping, and evaluation of user-computer interfaces are part of larger systems and are therefore ideally designed, developed, and evaluated as part of a larger design and developmental process or "life cycle."   Thus, this book describes the process by which functional, nonfunctional, or display-oriented requirements are converted first into prototypes and then into working systems. While the process may at times seem almost mysterious, there is in fact a methodology that drives the process -- a methodology that is defined in terms of an adaptive life cycle. There are a number of steps or phases that comprise the standard life cycle, as well as methods, tools and techniques that permit each step to be taken. Describing the effort to implement this process to enhance user-computer interaction, this book presents a methodological approach that seeks to identify and apply findings from cognitive science to the design, prototyping, and evaluation of user-computer interfaces.

Handbook of Decision Support Systems

Management & Leadership

Tab Professional & Reference

The practical applications of artificial intelligence have grown considerably in the last decade. It is now possible to identify the problems best solved through AI and to forge some cost-effective solutions. This book documents the latest advances in knowledge-based systems design and development. It also places the information in context, offering an historical perspective on the rise of artificial intelligence.In a single reference, you'll find comprehensive descriptions of current applications of artificial intelligence. The book covers how to represent knowledge; use conventional programming languages to program knowledge-based systems; deal with uncertainty and ambiguity in knowledge processing; apply AI to manufacturing, law, airline scheduling, and national defense; relate AI to other fields and disciplines, and understand the contribution that neural networks might make.

Applied Artificial Intelligence: A Sourcebook

Tab Books

Revolution and political instability: Applied research methods

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

F. Pinter

Book by Hopple, Gerald W., Andriole, Stephen J., Freedy, Amos

National Security Crisis Forecasting And Management

Hopple, Gerald W.

Freedy, Amos

Westview Press

Information Technology for Command and Control: Methods and Tools for Systems Development and Evaluation (IEEE Press Selected Reprint Series)

IEEE

NY 1983 first edition Petrocelli. Hardcover. Octavo, 184pp., index, cloth. Fine in Good DJ, a few closed tears, light wear along edges.

The Handbook of Problem Solving: An Analytical Methodology

Petrocelli Books

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