Contemporary Trends in Systems Development

This book is a result of ISD2000-The Ninth International Conference on Infor­ mation Systems Development: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice, held August 14-16, in Kristiansand, Norway. The ISD conference has its roots in the first Polish­ Scandinavian Seminar on Current Trends in Information Systems Development Method­ ologies, held in Gdansk, Poland in 1988. This year, as the conference carries into the new millennium this fine tradition, it was fitting that it returned to Scandinavia. Velkommen tilbake! Next year, ISD crosses the North Sea and in the traditions of the Vikings, invades England. Like every ISD conference, ISD2000 gave participants an opportunity to express ideas on the current state of the art in information systems development, and to discuss and exchange views about new methods, tools and applications. This is particularly important now, since the field of ISD has seen rapid, and often bewildering, changes. To quote a Chinese proverb, we are indeed cursed, or blessed, depending on how we choose to look at it, to be "living in interesting times".

Section 1: Perspectives on information systems developement.- 1. The Machine Is Not the Woman: Cyberfeminism and the Techno- Determinism of Information Systems.- 2. To Err Is Human: Implications for Information Systems Development.- 3. CRISP: The Campaign for Real Information Systems Production.- 4. Methodological Rigour and Methodology Relevance in IS Development.- Section 2: Information systems development methods.- 5. The Impact of Reference Modeling in MRPII/ERP Systems on Business Process Reengineering.- 6. A Maturity Framework for the Enterprise Modeling and Engineering Process.- 7. Development Methods for Knowledge Intensive Applications.- 8. Framework Oriented Software Development and Its Challenges: Commercial Software Solutions Provider Perspective.- 9. Are Use Cases Necessarily the Best Start of an OO System Development Process?.- Section 3: Information systems development tools, techniques and technologies.- 10. Using Hierarchies to Adapt Domain Analysis to Software Development.- 11. A Mobility Prediction Handover Algorithm for Quality of Service Improvement in Wireless ATM.- 12. FTI Algorithm for Component Interface Meta Modeling of the TMN Agents.- 13. XML: A Challenge for Databases?.- 14. Process Diagram Technique for Business Processes Modeling.- 15. Artificial Neural Networks in Predicting a Dichotomous Level of Financial Distress for Uneven Training and Testing Samples.- Section 4: Management of information systems and systems development.- 16. Managing Software Development within a Virtual Project Environment.- 17. Managerial Enterprise Structural Stakeholders (MESS) Model— Modelling the Influence of Organisational Politics and Structure Upon Cost of Systems Development.- 18. Development Recommendations for Knowledge Management/ OrganizationalMemory Systems.- 19. An Integrated Object & Fuzzy Cognitive Maps Approach to Business Process Management.- 20. An Empirical Assessment of IT Disaster Probabilities.- 21. Knowledge Management: Trusting Knowledge Workers.- 22. Information Systems Audit for Investment Decision.- Section 5: Information systems application areas.- 23. Implementation of an Integrated Software Package.- 24. Matchmaking Mechanisms for Agent-Mediated Electronic Markets.- 25. Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Implications for Financial Specialists.- 26. A Model for Organisational Integration of Meeting Outcomes.- 27. Decision Support Systems Implementation Research: Review of the Current State and Future Directions.- 28. WWW Workflows Based on Petri Nets.- 29. Information Technology in the Marketing Mix of a Modern Business.- 30. Manningham On-Line—Using Global Technologies for Building Local Electronic Commerce Business.- Section 6: Information systems education and learning.- 31. Maintaining Software May Help an Organization Learn: Applying Organizational Learning to Software Enhancement.- 32. Object Based Learning Systems (OBL): A Virtual Context for Embedding Artificial Intelligence in Tutorial Software.- 33. Teaching XML in a Business School: Lessons Learned from the Agder Experience.- 34. Projects as Learning Environments: A Case Study in IS Education.