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PhD position available per direct (September 1, 1999)
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Project title:
"Modeling business goals and business processes in GTA"
Description of the topic
Forinteractive systems, performing task
analysis is becoming a standard design phase.
Methods like GTA (www.cs.vu.nl/~martijn/gta)
are becoming standard practice for analysing
users' insight in the work domain. HOwever, there is
still a gap between this knowledge and the
business goals and business processes that
should be the driving force behind any major
(re)design.
Advanced methods like GTA are built on an
"ontology" of task knowledge concepts, that
allows designers to input and analyse task
knowledge representations in a variety of
easy to handle ways.
The project goals:
An extension of the GTA methodology to
include business process analysis: collection
of knowledge on business goals and -processes, modeling
techniques, and a design environment that allows smooth
transition to task analysis and modeling.
The position:
In this PhD project we need a student who has
insight in the design of information systems,
as well as in analysis of business processes and
business requirements (re)engineering.
Our prefered candidate has a Masters in either
Computer Science or in Business Informatics or
Business sciences with at least a strong interest in
the other discipline, and preferably some experience in
techniques from the other domain.
Adequate knowledge of the English language is required.
The PhD student will be employed by the Faculty
of Sciences, division of Mathematics and
Computer Sciences, section Information Systems and
Software Engineering, for a period of 4 years. The
monthly salary before tax will probably be about
Dfl 3000.-- for year 1, increasing to Dfl 4000.-- for year 4.
Information is available at:
Gerrit C. van der Veer,
+31-20-4447764,
[log in to unmask],
www.cs.vu.nl/~gerrit
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