Information System Concepts: An Integrated Discipline Emerging

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Information Systems as a Social Science

   • Ronald K. Stamper

   Pages 1-51

3. Comments on “Information Systems as a Social Science” by R.K. Stamper

   • Kalle Lyytinen

   Pages 52-54

4. Comments on “Information Systems as a Social Science” by R.K. Stamper

   • Eckhard Falkenberg

   Pages 55-60

5. Conceptions are Social Constructs

   • Hubert von Braun, Wolfgang Hesse, Urs Andelfinger, Hans-Bernd Kittlaus, Gert Scheschonk

   Pages 61-73

6. Comments on “Conceptions are Social Constructs” by H. v. Braun, W. Hesse, U. Andelfinger, H.-B. Kittlaus and G. Scheschonk

   • Hannu Kangassalo

   Pages 74-76

7. An Organizational Theory of Information

   • Anatol W. Holt, Felice Cardone

   Pages 77-91

8. Comments on “An Organizational Theory of Information” by A.W. Holt and F. Cardone

   • Ronald K. Stamper

   Pages 92-94

9. A Semiotic Approach to the Design of Agent-mediated E-commerce Systems

   • Samuel Chong, Kecheng Liu

   Pages 95-114

10. Comments on “A Semiotic Approach to the Design of Agent-mediated E-commerce Systems” by S. Chong and K. Liu

    • John Krogstie

    Pages 115-116

11. The Quality of Business Process Modelling Methods

    • Bart-Jan Hommes, Victor van Reijswoud

    Pages 117-136

12. Comments on “The Quality of Business Process Modelling Methods” by B.-J. Hommes and V. van Reijswoud

    • Pieter W. G. Bots

    Pages 137-139

13. Modelling Concurrent Process Coordination in Workflow Specifications

    • Alistair P. Barros, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede

    Pages 141-162

14. Comments on “Modelling Concurrent Process Coordination in Workflow Specifications” by A.P. Barros and A.H.M. ter Hofstede

    • Jan L. G. Dietz

    Pages 163-164

15. An Autopoietic View of the Concept ‘Information System’

    • El-Sayed Abou-Zeid

    Pages 165-186

16. Comments on “An Autopoietic View of the Concept Information Systems” by E.-S. Abou-Zeid

    • Motoshi Saeki

    Pages 187-188

17. Failure, Identity Loss and Living Information Systems

    • Panagiotis Kanellis, Mark Lycett, Ray J. Paul

    Pages 189-212

18. Comments on “Failure, Identity Loss and Living Information Systems” by P. Kanellis, M. Lycett, and R.J. Paul

    • Kalle Lyytinen

    Pages 213-215

19. An Ontological Evaluation of the OML Metamodel

    • Andreas L. Opdahl, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Franck Barbier

    Pages 217-232

20. Comments on “An Ontological Evaluation of the OML Metamodel” by A.L. Opdahl, B. Henderson-Sellers and F. Barbier

    • Arne Sølvberg

    Pages 233-234

This volume contains the invited paper, the reviewed research papers, the discussants' comments on the latter, and the workshop memoranda of the fourth IFIP WG 8. 1 International Working Conference on "Information System Concepts", with the subtitle "An Integrated Discipline Emerging" (ISC04). It was held in Leiden, The Netherlands, 20-22 September 1999. The previous three ISCO conferences were subtitled "An In-depth Analysis", "Improving the Understanding", and "Towards a Consolidation of Views". Their proceedings were published in 1989, 1992, and 1995, respectively. The ISCO conferences were instigated by the former Task Group FRISCO (an acronym for "FRamework of Information System Concepts"), charged by the IFIP Working Group 8. 1 with the task of proposing a conceptual framework for the information system field. Its report, entitled "A Framework of Information System Concepts" (the "FRISCO Report" for short), is available on the World Wide Web via the address: http://www. wi. leidenuniv. nl/~verrynstlfrisco. html or may be downloaded directly as a condensed Word-6 file from: ftp://ftp. leidenuniv. nl/pub/rullfri-full. zip The FRISCO Report forms a significant contribution to the long-lasting quest of our community towards developing a scientific outlook on the field of information systems. Clarifying the varied nature of many diverging views - some of which may not easily be reconciled - the report does propose a coherent, consistent and partially formalised framework of concepts.

• E-Commerce
• Information System
• Processing
• Workflow
• business process
• information processing
• innovation
• modeling
• organization
• service-oriented computing
• system

• Germany

  Eckhard D. Falkenberg

• University of Jyväskylä, Finland

  Kalle Lyytinen

• University of Leiden, The Netherlands

  Alexander A. Verrijn-Stuart

Eckhard Falkenberg is Professor Emeritus of Information Systems and lives in Germany Kalle Lyytinen is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland Alex Verrijn-Stuart is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Leiden University, The Netherlands

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