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Information Systems Development: Towards a Service Provision Society
Edited by George Angelos Papadopoulos, Edited by Wita Wojtkowski, Edited by Gregory Wojtkowski, Edited by Stanislaw Wrycza, Edited by Jože Zupancic
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Thistwo-volumebookisthepublishedproceedingsofthe17thInternationalConferenceonInformation SystemsDevelopment(ISD2008)thatwashostedbytheDepartmentofComputerScienceoftheU- versityofCyprusattheAnnabelleHotel,Paphos,Cyprus,from25-27August2008. Thethemeofthe conferencewas""TowardsaServiceProvisionSociety"". Intotal,131delegatesfrom34differentcountriesregisteredfortheconference,makingitatruly internationalevent. Paperspresentedattheconferencestronglyreflectedtheconferencetheme. Of165 paperssubmitted,99werepresentedattheconference,representinganacceptancerateofapproximately 60%. Allpaperswerepeerreviewedby3or4referees(atotalof543reviewreportsweresubmitted, correspondingtoanaverageof3. 29reviewsperpaper). Overthecourseof3days,28papersessionswereheld,coveringarangeofareassuchas""Information SystemsEngineering&Management"",""BusinessSystemsAnalysis&Design"",""IntelligentInformation Systems"",""AgileandHigh-SpeedSystemsDevelopmentMethods"",""EnterpriseSystemsDevelopment& Adoption"",""PublicInformationSystemsDevelopment"",""InformationSystemsDevelopmentEducation"", ""Information Systems Development in Developing Nations"", ""Legal and Administrative Aspects of InformationSystemsDevelopment"",""InformationSystemsResearchMethodologies"",""Service-Oriented AnalysisandDesignofInformationSystems"",""ITServiceManagement"",""PhilosophicalandTheoretical IssuesinInformationSystemsDevelopment"",""Model-drivenEngineeringinISD"",""HumanComputer Interaction(HCI)inInformationSystemsDevelopment"". Thebookisorganisedbyorderoftheconference sessions. Whileallthepresentedpaperswereofhighquality,wehaveselectedtwoofthemtosharetheBest Paper Award. The first one is ""Modeling the contribution of enterprise architecture practice to the achievementofbusinessgoals""byMarliesvanSteenbergenandSjaakBrinkkemper. Thesecondoneis ""Whycan'twebetonISDOutcomes?:ISD'Form'asaPredictorofSuccess""byMikeNewman,ShanL PanandGaryPan. Furthermore,toacknowledgethequalityofthereviewshecompleted,thequality ofthepaperhesubmitted,hisroleasatrackandsessionchair,andhisgeneralparticipationinthe conference,wehaveawardedanOverallContributionAwardtoMichaelLangoftheNationalUniversity of Ireland, Galway. Details of these awards can be found on the conference Web site at http:// isd2008. cs. ucy. ac. cy. Ourgratitudeisextendedfirsttoallthosewhoattendedandauthoredworkfortheconference. The contributionoftheInternationalProgramCommitteewasinvaluableinidentifyingtrackchairsand reviewerstocommittodoingvitalwork. Whilevolunteeringtohostaconferenceisahighlypersonal undertaking,withoutsupportitwouldbeimpossible. Thus,wewishtothankoursponsorsfortheir financialsupportandotheraid. The ISD conference community has developed over the years a real sense of collegiality and friendliness,perhapsunusuallysoforaconference. Atthesametimeithasbeenastimulatingforum whereafreeexchangeofviewsandperspectivesisencouraged. Perhapswhatbringsthecommunity togetherisabeliefthattheprocessofsystemsdevelopmentisimportant;whetheritissystematicor structuredorimprovisedorspontaneous,thereissomethingabouttheprocessandtheoutcomesthat excitesus. Weformaspectrumofthoughtfromthosewhoseetheactivityassomewhatscientifictoothers thatseeitaswhollysociological;wespanadividebetweenabstractandconceptual,tohardcodeand v vi Preface artefacts-somewherein-betweenliesthetruth. Ifourworkistomakeameaningfulcontributiontoboth practice(byteachingstudents)andresearch(bysharingourexperiencesandstudieswithothers),then hopefullythisconferencewillhavedonealittleoftheformerandmuchforthelatter. GeorgeA. Papadopoulos GregoryWojtkowski WitaWojtkowski StanislawWrycza JozeZupancic Contents 1. Designing Class Methods from Dataflow Diagrams Peretz Shoval and Judith Kabeli-Shani 1. Introduction...1 2. OverviewoftheDesignPhaseofFOOM...2 3. TransactionsandTheirDescriptions...3 3. 1. WhatisaTransaction?...3 3. 2. Top-LevelDescriptionsofTransactions...5 4. DetailedDesignofTransactionsandClassMethods...6 4. 1. StepsintheDesignofTransactionandClassMethods...6 4. 2. FromTop-LeveltoDetailedTransactionDescriptions...6 4. 3. FromDetailedDescriptionsofTransactiontoClassMethods...7 4. 4. MessageCharts...9 5. Summary...9 References...10 2. On The Human, Organizational, and Technical Aspects of Software Development and Analysis ? ? Robertas Damasevicius 1. Introduction...11 2. Non-TechnicalAspectsofSoftwareDevelopment ...12 2. 1. SocialAspects...12 2. 2. OrganizationalAspects...12 2. 3. PsychologicalAspects...13 2. 4. CulturalAspects...13 3. SocialDisciplinesofComputerScience...13 4. Socio-TechnicalSoftwareAnalysis...15 4. 1. Concept,Context,andAimsofSocio-TechnicalSoftwareAnalysis...15 4. 2. Socio-TechnicalSoftwareAnalysisvs. TraditionalDomainAnalysis...15 5. DiscussionandConclusions...16 References...
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Published date | 26 Oct 2009
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ISBN | 978-0-3878-4809-9
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