How Best to Identify An Elephant
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چکیده
Many large projects are ill-deened as a result of the high level of complexity inherent in such systems. It becomes diicult not only to fully specify such systems but even to understand all aspects of the system. From any given viewpoint of the system many of the aspects will be hidden. Therefore multiple viewpoints of the system need to be considered in order to fully understand and specify the system under consideration. This paper discusses the issues relating to the use of multiple system viewpoints: Which viewpoints are required to specify the system ? At what depth ? How are they to be integrated ? How are they to be reconciled ? The various issues are raised and discussed and possible directions are considered for developing solutions.
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