Overview

This project co-design business and IT systems to exploit the technological advances with improved organisational effectiveness. It is important that technologies are designed to leverage information and knowledge resources as the key enablers for high quality systems that can improve the modelling of an enterprise. The methods research described in this research reflects recent advancements in field of semiotics for utilising the available information, communication and knowledge. MEASUR methods provide a comprehensive technique to articulate complex problems, formalise operational meanings and ontological concepts used in the business domain and analyses the behaviours of agents to promote an integrated framework for complex enterprises. The SEDITA project has developed the theoretical foundations, methods, and tools to successfully evolve it toward an (IT and Business) information-integrated enterprise.

This project was built on the early 1970s research work supported by the UK Research Council which has evolved into an internationally recognised discipline of Organisational Semiotics. The development of this new methodology for requirements analysis and specifications "Methods for Eliciting Analysing and Specifying Users Requirements" (MEASUR) based on the concepts of Organisational Semiotics. The available techniques are tested on real case studies with industrial collaborators with mainstream users where the methods are applied to business problem for

i) integrating the techniques and fine turning the methods,
ii) validating the methodology with industrial problem of reasonable size and complexity,
iii) provide supporting tool,
iv) acceptance to industrial and business users,
v) an interface to the downstream software engineering phases