Manoj Kumar, Anjana Gosain, Yogesh Singh, Journal of Information Processing Systems Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 385-402, Sep. 2010  

10.3745/JIPS.2010.6.3.385
Keywords: Agent, Dependencies Among Agents, Stakeholders of the Organization, Data Warehouse Requirements Engineering, Early Requirements Engineering, Late Requirements Engineering
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Abstract

Most of the data warehouse (DW) requirements engineering approaches have not distinguished the early requirements engineering phase from the late requirements engineering phase. There are very few approaches seen in the literature that explicitly model the early & late requirements for a DW. In this paper, we propose an AGDI (Agent-Goal-Decision-Information) model to support the early and late requirements for the development of DWs. Here, the notion of agent refers to the stakeholders of the organization and the dependency among agents refers to the dependencies among stakeholders for fulfilling their organizational goals. The proposed AGDI model also supports three interrelated modeling activities namely, organization modeling, decision modeling and information modeling. Here, early requirements are modeled by performing organization modeling and decision modeling activities, whereas late requirements are modeled by performing information modeling activities. The proposed approach has been illustrated to capture the early and late requirements for the development of a university data warehouse exemplifying our model’s ability of supporting its decisional goals by providing decisional information.

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