Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Information Systems Development

Challenges in Practice, Theory, and Education Volume 2

  • Book
  • © 2009

Overview

Editors:
  1. Chris Barry

    1. Business Information Systems Group J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Michael Lang

    1. Business Information Systems Group J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Wita Wojtkowski

    1. Department of Electrical Computer Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  4. Kieran Conboy

    1. Business Information Systems Group J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  5. Gregory Wojtkowski

    1. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Presents the latest and greatest concepts, approaches, and techniques of systems development - a notoriously transitional field
  • Illustrates the newest design and development in information systems, in applications engineering and reengineering, as well as issues concerned with teaching and learning in this field
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (43 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Morally Successful IT Projects

    • Tero Vartiainen, Maritta Pirhonen
    Pages 601-610

  3. The Risks of User-Supplied Content Online

    • Rónán Kennedy
    Pages 611-620

  4. Evaluating Online Human Rights Resource Centres

    • John Lannon
    Pages 621-636

  5. ‘Calling Passengers’ — An Ethical Problem in the Design of Self-Service Web Sites Amongst Low-Cost Airlines in Ireland

    • Chris Barry, Ann Torres
    Pages 637-650

  6. Counterfactuals and Hybrid Reasoning in an Ontolog

    • El Hassan Bezzazi
    Pages 651-662

  7. Holistic Project Management Guidelines for Information Systems Evaluation

    • Lorraine Galvin
    Pages 663-674

  8. ORE: A Framework to Measure Organizational Risk Du

    • Aditya Agrawal, Gavin Finnie, Padmanabhan Krishnan
    Pages 675-686

  9. Evaluating the Driving Factors and the Suppressing Factors Related to IS Outsourcing in Four Finnish Information Systems Organizations

    • Pasi Juvonen
    Pages 687-698

  10. Strategic Dimensions of Software Development in a Supply Chain

    • G. H. Kruithof, T. D. Meijler
    Pages 699-707

  11. Assessment Tools as Drivers for SPI: Short-Term Benefits and Long-Term Challenges

    • Sune Dueholm Müller, Jacob NÏ•rbjerg, Hiu Ngan Cho
    Pages 709-721

  12. Improving Organizational Performance by Raising the Level of Business Process Orientation Maturity: Empirical Test and Case Study

    • Rok Å krinjar, Mojca Indihar Å temberger
    Pages 723-740

  13. The Information Systems Security Process: Through and Anthropological Lens

    • Amanda Freeman, Larry Stapleton, Gabriel Byrne
    Pages 741-752

  14. Securing Systems Intelligently: The Logical Approa

    • Brian Shields, Owen Molloy
    Pages 753-766

  15. Trust Ontology for Information Systems Development

    • Kamaljit Kaur Bimrah, Haralambos Mouratidis, David Preston
    Pages 767-779

  16. Model Curriculum for a Bachelor of Science Program in Business Information Systems Design (BISD 2007): Organisational Impacts

    • Sven Carlsson, Jonas Hedman, Odd Steen
    Pages 781-793

  17. Project Managers — Do They Need to Be Certified?

    • Orla McHugh, Mairéad Hogan
    Pages 795-808

  18. SArt: Towards Innovation at the Intersection of Software Engineering and Art

    • Anna Trifonova, Salah U. Ahmed, Letizia Jaccheri
    Pages 809-827

  19. Effects of Natural Language Complexity on Student Performance in Object-Oriented Domain Analysis

    • Ke Li, Jenny Coady, Rob Pooley, Rick Dewar
    Pages 829-840

  20. Facilitating Experience and Re-experience: The Role of ‘Virtualisation’ in Information Systems Development Education

    • Sean Duignan, Tony Hall
    Pages 841-852
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts, approaches and techniques of systems development emerge constantly in this field. Progress in ISD comes from research as well as from practice.

This conference will discuss issues pertaining to information systems development (ISD) in the inter-networked digital economy. Participants will include researchers, both experienced and novice, from industry and academia, as well as students and practitioners. Themes will include methods and approaches for ISD; ISD education; philosophical, ethical, and sociological aspects of ISD; as well as specialized tracks such as: distributed software development, ISD and knowledge management, ISD and electronic business / electronic government, ISD in public sector organizations, IOS.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Business Information Systems Group J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland

    Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Kieran Conboy

  • Department of Electrical Computer Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, USA

    Wita Wojtkowski

  • Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, USA

    Gregory Wojtkowski

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation