Special Issue on Systems Analysis and Systemic Thinking: Research and Teaching Issues (Part 2)

摘要

In this issue of the International Journal of Information Technology and the Systems Approach (IJTTSA), we report six high-quality research papers. The first three of them were accepted as part of the previous special issue on "Systems Analysis and Systemic Thinking: Research and Teaching Issues", co-edited by the Doncho Petkov, at Eastern Connecticut State University, USA, George Schell, at University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA, and Theophilus Andrew, at Durban University of Technology, South Africa. The remainder three papers were accepted as regular submissions. The first paper Better Use Case Diagrams by Using Work System Snapshots is authored by Narasimha Bolloju, at LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India, and Steven Alter, at University of San Francisco, USA. It shows how a technique from Work System Theory, called Work System Snapshot (Alter, 2013) can be applied to better development of use cases, an important technique in Object Oriented Analysis and Design. The effectiveness of this approach was tested in a laboratory experiment. Given the fact that work system snapshots can be more easily defined in collaboration between developers and the clients this is a promising advance in the strive to produce better use cases in software development.