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Currently a wide range of pragmatic information system development methods exists, each method offering different approaches, techniques and tools. For many large and complex systems a multi-method approach would be preferable but the fragmentation of contemporary methods does not cater at present for a unified representation of system specifications. The AMADEUS project attempts to redress this situation by enabling the integration of different contemporary development methods at the semantic level. The current phase of the project is concerned with developing a unified semantic model of methods and mapping the representational primitives of a variety of pragmatic development methods onto this. This paper presents the constructs of the unified model and discusses some of the issues in inter-method translation.
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Black, W.J., Sutcliffe, A.G., Loucopoulos, P., Layzell, P.J. (1987). Translation between pragmatic software development methods. In: Nichols, H., Simpson, D. (eds) ESEC '87. ESEC 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 289. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022128
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