Information Systems Development Advances in Methodologies, Components, and Management

This book is the result of the 11 th International Conference on Information Systems Development -Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice, held in Riga, Latvia, September 12-14,2002. The purpose of this conference was to address issues facing academia and industry when specifying, developing, managing, reengineering and improving information systems. Recently many new concepts and approaches have emerged in the Information Systems Development (ISD) field. Various theories, methodologies, methods and tools available to system developers also created new problems, such as choosing the most effective approach for a specific task, or solving problems of advanced technology integration into information systems. This conference provides a meeting place for ISD researchers and practitioners from Eastern and Western Europe as well as from other parts of the world. Main objectives of this conference are to share scientific knowledge and interests and to establish strong professional ties among the participants. The 11th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD'02) continues the tradition started with the first Polish-Scandinavian Seminar on Current Trends in Information Systems Development Methodologies, held in Gdansk, Poland in 1988. Through the years this Seminar has evolved into the International Conference on Information Systems Development. ISD'02 is the first ISD conference held in Eastern Europe, namely, in Latvia, one of the three Baltic countries.

1. Reflections on Information Systems Development 1988-2002.- 2. ISD as Folding Together Humans & IT.- 3. Development of Information Society: Problems and Solutions.- 4. Goal Oriented Requirements Engineering.- 5. Towards Continuous Development.- 6. Developing Web-Based Education Using Information Systems Methodologies.- 7. Trends in Developing Web-Based Multimedia Information Systems.- 8. The Organisational Deployment of Systems Development Methodologies.- 9. The Rationalization of Organizational Life: The Role of Information Systems.- 10. Information Systems Development in Emergent Organizations.- 11. Success Factors for Outsourced Information System Development.- 12. Actable Information Systems.- 13. Management Support Methods Research for Information Systems Development.- 14. Panel on Change Management and Information Systems.- 15. The Role of Leadership in Virtual Project Management.- 16. Managing Knowledge in a Networked Context.- 17. Creating an Organisational Memory Through Integration of Enterprise Modelling, Patterns and Hypermedia: the Hyperknowledge Approach.- 18. Application Domain Knowledge Modelling Using Conceptual Graphs.- 19. On Modelling Emerging Behaviour of Multifunctional Non-Profit Organisations.- 20. How to Comprehend Large and Complicated Systems.- 21. Software Engineering and Is Implementation Research: an Analytical Assessment of Current SE Frameworks as Implementation Strategies.- 22. Software Development Risk Management Survey.- 23. Research Notes on Developing a Formal Organizational Language.- 24. Applying System Development Methods in Practice.- 25. Scalable System Design with the Bcemd Layering.- 26. Refining OEM to Improve Features of Query Languages for Semistructured Data.- 27. Deriving Triggers from UML/OCL Specification.- 28. The Future of Information Technology — Hopes and Challenges.- 29. Recommendations for the Practical Use of Elliott Jaques’ Organizational and Social Theories in the Information Technology Field: Teams, Software, Databases, Telecommunications and Innovations.- 30. The Impact of Technological Paradigm Shift on Information System Design.- 31. Key Issues in Information Technology Adoption in Small Companies.- 32. ‘Teamwork’: A Combined Methodological and Technological Solution for E-Working Environments.- 33. Sourcing and Alignment of Competencies and E-Business Success in SMES: an Empirical Investigation of Norwegian SMES.- 34. The Gap between Rhetoric and Reality.- 35. Learning and Analysis in an E-Commerce Project.- 36. Convergence Approach: Integrate Active Packet with Mobile Components in Advanced Intelligent Network.- 37. Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS).- 38. A Component-Based Framework for Integrated Messaging Services.- 39. Improved Efficiency in Electronic Cash Scheme.- Author Index.