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The NIAM Information Analysis Method

Theory and Practice

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  • © 1990

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Authors:
  1. J. J. V. R. Wintraecken

    1. Rosmalen, Netherlands

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The NIAM Method of Information Analysis

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 1-16

  3. An Information System Model

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 17-24

  4. From Object System Analysis to Information Analysis

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 25-39

  5. The Structure of Information

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 40-66

  6. Describing Information

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 67-104

  7. The NIAM Method of Information Analysis in Practice — 1

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 105-128

  8. Graphical Constraints Involving One Fact Type

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 129-153

  9. The NIAM Method of Information Analysis in Practice — 2

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 154-165

  10. Graphical Constraints Involving Multiple Fact Types

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 166-188

  11. Graphical Constraints Involving Combinations of Roles

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 189-234

  12. The NIAM Method of Information Analysis in Practice — 3

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 235-261

  13. Fact Types Consisting of More Than Two Roles

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 262-296

  14. The NIAM Method of Information Analysis in Practice — 4

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 297-311

  15. Fact Types Consisting of One Role

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 312-338

  16. The NIAM Method of Information Analysis in Practice — 5

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 339-352

  17. Non-Graphical Constraints

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 353-381

  18. The NIAM Method of Information Analysis in Practice — 6

    • J. J. V. R. Wintraecken
    Pages 382-390

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 391-469
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About information analysis Everywhere people are working, they are communicating or exchanging informa­ tion about their work. Unless they come to reasonable agreements about this communication, i.e., agreements describing the "language" of their communica­ tion so that they can understand each other's information, sooner or later there will be such a "Tower of Babel" that their goal of communication will be doomed to failure. There are a lot of places wh~re some of the communication between people working together is being carried out via an information system. In these cases too, a clear agreement about communication must be made, so that people communi­ cating via an information system can understand each other at all times. In such an agreement, it is determined which data may be exchanged with the information system and the meaning everyone should assign to that data. For communication taking place via an information system, such an agreement is called a "grammar" or a "conceptual schemea" of this information system. "Information analysis" is that field and also that phase of development of an information system in which the grammar or the conceptual schemea of the information system is determined. The grammar or the conceptual scheme is an essential part of the specifications of present-day information systems.

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  • Rosmalen, Netherlands

    J. J. V. R. Wintraecken

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