New Perspectives on Information Systems Development, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Theory, Methods, and Practice

This book is a result of the Tenth International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2001) held at Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom, during September 5-7, 2001. ISD 2001 carries on the fine tradition established by the first Polish-Scandinavian Seminar on Current Trends in Information Systems Development Methodologies, held in Gdansk, Poland in 1988. Through the years, this seminar evolved into an International Conference on Information Systems Development. The Conference gives participants an opportunity to express ideas on the current state of the art in information systems development, and to discuss and exchange views on new methods, tools, applications as well as theory. In all, 55 papers were presented at ISD2001 organised into twelve tracks covering the following themes: Systems Analysis and Development, Modelling, Methodology, Database Systems, Collaborative Systems, Theory, Knowledge Management, Project Management, IS Education, Management issues, E-Commerce. and Technical Issues. We would like to thank all the contributing authors for making this book possible and for their participation in ISD200 1. We are grateful to our panel of paper reviewers for their help and support. We would also like to express our sincere thanks to Ceri Bowyer and Steve Brown for their unfailing support with organising ISD2001.

1. Stakeholders and boundaries in strategic information systems planning: a framework for increasing sufficiency; E. Coakes, T. Elliman. 2. Gender perceptions in the IT industry; L. O'Neil, E. Walker. 3. Diagnosing metrics practices in a software organization; H.D. Frederiksen, L. Mathiassen. 4. An approach to institutionalisation of software processes; P. Pourkomeylian. 5. Interdisciplinary is competence at an individual level: a case study; S. Nordheim. 6. From information islands to a knowledge society: the case of Egypt; S. Kamel, K. Wahba. 7. Implementing the killer App: a method for implementing large business process-underpinning applications; D. Haagsman. 8. Taxis - a conceptual model to support the early stages of the ISD process; P. Morais, J.Á. Carvalho. 9. Information system development in the 'E-Age'; G. Magyar, et al. 10. Necessity, challenges, and promises of Peer-to-Peer architecture of information systems; J. Král, M. Zemlicka. 11. Selection of projects in software process assessment: New perspectives; A. Sampaio. 12. Personality types of managers in development of intelligent systems; V. Kvassov. 13. Leveraging formal specifications: Integration of formal paradigms in multidimensional modeling space; R. Polovina, W. Wojtkowksi. 14. Demystifying the internet-based software artefact; F. Karlsson, et al. 15. Adding domain analysis to software development method; M. Forsell. 16. Influence of the information system function maturity in the approach to the requirementsengineering; Á. Rocha, J.Á. Carvalho. 17. An analysis of extreme programming based on the classical model of management functions; P. Wendorff. 18. The production of an interactive multimedia tutorial: a case study; P. Sobreperez. 19. Changes in organisational languages during information systems development; K. Axelsson. 20. Impact of end user computing on is development: a study of is usage in an engineering organization; M.E. Jennex. Modelling. 21. Entity-media modelling: conceptual modelling for multimedia database design; V. Hobbs, D. Pigott. 22. An explorative study into the influence of business goals on the practical use of enterprise modelling methods and tools; A. Persson, J. Stirna. 23. Workflow application modelling using SDL and UML; P. Olmer, C. Vrana. 24. API's for XML: DOM, SAX, and JDOM; Yin-Wah Chiou. 25. Using XSL in is development; K. Richta. Technical issues. 26. Multimedia multi-user communication service for QOS improvement in wireless ATM; Hoon-ki Kim, Jae-il Jung. 27. Intelligent farmer model for network management agent design of IMT-2000; S.-H. Park. 28. Chained bucket hashing method for real time processing in mobile telecommunication; Kew-Yung Lee, et al. Collaborative systems. 29. A multi-agent virtual seminar system (MAVIS) in collaborative distance learning; ChingMiin Duh, et al. 30. Collaboration in information seeking: a case of knowledge work in evidence based health care; G. Fennessy. 31. Towards enhanced automated