Procurement officer management information system

Presents research results of Euclid RTP 6.6 project, undertaken by the PROMIS consortium. The project is to develop an approach to supporting C3IS specification. The specification must be nonambiguous, consistent and as complete as possible. The procurement officers must consider the need for interoperability among national C2 systems, use COTS as much as possible, and match commercial and military systems. The specification must be produced quickly. The approach is to consider it as a list of all possible interaction objects between the system and its stakeholders. These `user objects´ define the external view of the system in a formal way; they are stored in a repository called `reference model´. However, unlike usual specifications,they are constrained to comply with C3IS system logic. The specification process is thus scoped down to a simple selection and overall consistency is ensured by a selection triggered automatic constraint propagation. Reference Model Information System (RMIS) is the name of the workshop designed to support this process. When the selection has been completed, the RMIS is able to generate a textual segment system specification (SSS), according to 2167 A American DoD standard, including interface requirements, functional and nonfunctional requirements. The RMIS approach has been validated through a software demonstrator. This approach proved to be very fruitful because it can be extended to system design, e.g. to the SSDD at the expense of RM completion with C3IS architectural objects