Systems Development Methods for Databases, Enterprise Modeling, and Workflow Management

by Wojtkowski, Wita

• ISBN13: 9780306462993
• ISBN10: 0306462990
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book is a result of ISD'99, the Eighth International Conference on Information Systems Development - Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice, held August 11-13, 1999, Boise, Idaho. The book addresses issues facing academia and industry when specifying, developing, managing, and improving information systems. In addition to the technical content, this volume includes discussions on product support and content management systems for the internet environment, on a new paradigm for successful acquisition of information systems, and on current pedagogical issues in systems analysis and design.

Table of Contents

State Dependent Behavioral Aspects of Objects: Automatic Synthesis	1	(31)
Rubina Polovina
A Corba Component Modeling Method Based on Software Architecture	31	(20)
Chang-Joo Moon
Sun-jung Lee
Doo-Kwon Baik
Dynamic Database Object Horizontal Fragmentation	51	(10)
C. I. Ezeife
Jian Zheng
An Electronic Ekd Method Guide Over the Web	61	(16)
Judith Barrios
Christophe Gnaho
Georges Grosz
Case-Based Reasoning, Genetic Algorithms, and the Pile Foundation Information System	77	(10)
Otakar Babka
Celestino Lei
Laurinda A. G. Garanito
Java, Web, and Distributed Objects	87	(10)
Yin-Wah Chiou
A Data Registry-Based Environment for Sharing XML Documents	97	(12)
Hong-Seok Na
Jin-Seok Chae
Doo-Kwon Baik
Evaluation of A Methodology for Construction of TMN Agents in the Aspect of Cost and Performance	109	(30)
Soo-Hyun Park
Doo-Kwon Baik
A Taxonomy of Strategies for Developing Spatial Decision Support System	139	(18)
Silvio Luis Rafaeli Neto
Marcos Rodrigues
Understanding is Strategies Implementation: A Process Theory Based Framework	157	(12)
Carl Erik Moe
Hallgeir Nilsen
Tore U. Orvik
On Method Support for Developing Pre-Usage Evaluation Frameworks for Case-Tools	169	(14)
Bjorn Lundell
Brian Lings
Assisting Asynchronous Software Inspection by Auto-Collation of Defect lists	183	(16)
Fraser Macdonald
James Miller
John D. Ferguson
Meta-Modeling: Theory and Practical Implications	199	(10)
Milan Drbohlav
Critical Systems Thinking and the Development of Information Technology in Organisations: Another Perspective	209	(24)
Diego Ricardo Torres Martinez
Information Systems and Process Orientation: Evaluation and Change Using Business Actions Theory	233	(12)
Ulf Melin
Goran Goldkuhl
Towards the Shift-Free Integration of Hard and Soft is Methods	245	(12)
Stephen K. Probert
Athena Rogers
Improved Software Quality Through Reviews and Defect Prevention: An Incremental Improvement Path	257	(6)
Edwin M. Gary
Oddur Benediktsson
Warren Smith
Identifying Success in Information Systems: Implications for Development Methodologies	263	(16)
Steve Page
Researching Organisational Memory	279	(20)
Frada Burstein
Henry Linger
Data Mining Using Neural Networks and Statistical Techniques: A Comparison	299	(14)
Jozef Zurada
Al F. Salam
The Year 2000 Problem in Small Companies in Slovenia	313	(14)
Borut Verber
Uros Jere
Joze Zupancic
Using Discourse Analysis to Understand is Planning and Development in Organization: A Case Study	327	(10)
John A. A. Sillince
G. Harindranath
Information System Development Methodology: The BPR Challenge	337	(12)
Vaclav Repa
Pervasiveit System: Ensuring a Positive Contribution to the Bottom Line	349	(8)
Robert Moreton
The Challenge: Providing an Information System for a Clinical Laboratory	357	(10)
H. M. Aus
M. Haucke
A. Steimer
The Concept of Improving and Developing an Information System for the Needs of Managing a Polish Enterprise	367	(8)
Adam Nowicki
The Implications of Changing Organisational Structures for the Future of the Information System (is) Function	375	(10)
Robert Moreton
Myrvin Chester
Middleware Orientation: Inverse Software Development Strategy	385	(12)
Jaroslav Kral
Selected Determinants of Applying Multimedia Techniques for Designing Decision Support Systems	397	(6)
Celina M. Olszak
Toward Effective Risk Management in is Development: Introduction to Risk Based Scorecard	403	(14)
Piotr Krawczyk
Hypermedia Based Distance Learning Systems and Its Applications	417	(14)
Christian Andreas Schumann
Karsten Wagner
Andrey Oleg Luntovskiy
Eugene K. Ovsyannikov
Elena M. Osipova
Multi-Media Instructional Support: Status, Issues, and Trends	431	(10)
Doug Vogel
Johanna Klassen
Derrick Stone
Electronic Delivery of Curriculum: Preproduction of Cyberscripts	441	(14)
Josie Arnold
Kitty Vigo
A New Paradigm for Successful Acquisition of Information Systems	455	(10)
Michael Gorman
Total Quality Measurement: Issues and Methods for Measuring Productivity for Information Systems	465	(14)
Richard McCarthy
Musing on Wiener's Cybernetics and Its Applications in the Information Processes Analysis	479	(8)
Jacek Unold
``Man is a Creature Made at the end of the Week...When God was Tired'': Some Reflections on the Impact of Human Error Upon Information Systems	487	(8)
George J. Bakehouse
Author Index	495