Information Systems Development: Challenges in Practice, Theory, and Education Volume 2 - Tapa dura

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.

Information Systems Development: Challenges in Practice, Theory and Education

Volume 2

Editors: Chris Barry,Kieran Conboy, Michael Lang, , Gregory Wojtowski, Wita Wojtowski. 

Information Systems Development: Challenges in Practice, Theory and Education, Volumes 1 and 2, are the collected proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Information Systems Development: Challenges in Practice, Theory and Education – ISD 2007 Conference, held in Galway, Ireland. It follows in the tradition of previous conferences in the series in exploring the connections between industry, research and education.

These proceedings represent ongoing reflections within the academic community on established information systems topics and emerging concepts, approaches and ideas. It is hoped that the papers herein contribute towards disseminating research and improving practice.

The conference tracks highlighted at the Sixteenth International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2007) were:

• Managing IS Development
• Innovation in Information Systems Development
• Enterprise Systems Development & Adoption
• Public Information Systems Development
• Agile and High-Speed Systems Development Methods
• Information Systems Engineering
• Business Systems Analysis & Design
• Data and Information Modelling
• ISD Education
• ISD in Developing Nations
• Legal and Administrative Aspects of ISD
• Service Oriented Modelling and Semantic Web Technologies