AMCIS 2006
Call For Papers
Systems Analysis and Design (SAND) TRACK
Organized by AIS SIGSAND
Track Co-chairs:
Akhilesh
Bajaj, University of Tulsa
Dinesh
Batra, Florida International University
Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The nine minitracks that are part of the
Systems Analysis and Design Track are:
Ontological Analysis in
Systems Analysis and Design
Systems Analysis and
Design: Modeling Methods, Techniques, and Languages
Agile Methods for IS
Development.
Systems Analysis and
Design for IS Development in Distributed Environments
Structured and Iterative
Development Methods for IS Development
Teaching, Training &
Learning SAND: Challenges and Paradigm Choices
Information Technology
Project Management
Service-based Application
Architecture and Development
Mini-track chairs have requested that all authors submit
an abstract via email prior to submitting their papers.
Guidelines for Paper Submission
1. Submit abstracts via email to the appropriate mini-track chair(s) by
February 1, 2006.
2. Submit final papers via the AIS Review System by March 1, 2006. http://reviews.aisnet.org/AMCIS2006.
3. Authors can submit multiple papers but in general may present only once
during the conference.
4. Copyright Information: Submission of a paper to AMCIS2006 represents the
author's agreement to allow AIS to publish the paper in any written or
electronic format for distribution to all interested parties in perpetuity with
or without compensation to AIS and without compensation to the author. The
parties understand that the author is granting a nonexclusive license and all
copyrights remain the property of the author.
The success of AMCIS depends on your help. Please volunteer to review by
contacting the chair(s) of the mini-track for which you wish to serve as a
reviewer.
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AMCIS 2006
Mini-Track For SIGSAND Track
Ontological Analysis in Systems Analysis
and Design
Mini-track Co-chairs:
Jeffrey Parsons,
Memorial University
of Newfoundland, Canada
Rajiv Kishore,
SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA
Ram Ramesh, SUNY at Buffalo, NY, USA
Background
This
mini-track is a collaborative effort between two AIS SIGs: Systems Analysis & Design (SAND) and
Ontology-Driven Information Systems (ODIS).
Both SIGs have experienced significant growth since they were approved
by AIS in December 2003. The minitrack
captures the significant overlap between the SIGs, and emerges from discussions
between the SIGS at AMCIS 2004.
Mini-Track Topic Description
Ontological
analysis in systems analysis and design (SAND) refers to the application of
ontological concepts to better understand and/or improve modeling methods used
in the early to middle stages of information systems development. The application of ontological analysis to
SAND emerges from the work of Wand and Weber, who have extended and applied the
meta-ontology of Mario Bunge to analyze information systems concept. This line of work, sometimes referred to as
the BWW models, has gained increasing acceptance in recent years. The approach has been adopted by others and
has led to a cohesive stream of research.
Further,
there is also a need to develop and evaluate “process” ontologies of various
SAND process models, methods, and methodologies. Such ontologies will focus on
the actual tasks and processes that are suggested and utilized in various SAND
methods and methodologies rather than on the representation tools that are used
by such methods and methodologies for representing the various aspects of an
information system. The need for evaluation of SAND process methodologies will
obviously create the need for identifying and using process meta-ontologies,
similar to BWW models.
This
mini-track will provide a focal point for these and related research issues. In
addition to exploring additional implications of BWW models for SAND and those
related to developing SAND process ontologies, the mini-track welcomes ideas
that extend the scope of thought regarding ontological application and analysis
in systems analysis and design.
Relevant topics for this mini-track
include (but are not limited to)
· Extension of BWW models for SAND
· Applicability of other meta-ontologies (e.g.,
Chisholm) to SAND
· Use of domain-specific ontologies in SAND
· Reuse of ontologies in SAND
· Development of process ontologies of various SAND
process models and methodologies
· Identifying process meta-ontologies and assessing
their suitability for evaluation of SAND process ontologies
· Evaluation of SAND process ontologies
Topics Covered in Other Conferences and Publications
Ontological analysis in
systems analysis and design has resulted in numerous, but sporadic,
publications in leading conferences, such as ICIS, AMCIS, WITS, HICSS EMMSAD,
and ECIS. Also, a number of papers in these areas have appeared in
well-respected journals such as Management Science, ISR, CACM, MISQ, JMIS, IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering, and Journal of Database Management. This mini-track will provide a focused venue
for ongoing work in the area, and will provide an excellent opportunity for
researchers on these topics to meet and exchange ideas.
Contact Information
Jeffrey Parsons
Faculty of Business
Administration
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St.
John’s, NL,
Canada A1B 3X5
jeffreyp@mun.ca
Rajiv Kishore and Ram Ramesh
School of Management
SUNY at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, USA
rkishore@buffalo.edu
rramesh@acsu.buffalo.edu
Bio-sketches
Jeffrey Parsons is Professor of Information Systems and Associate
Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial
University of Newfoundland. He received a Ph.D. from The University of British
Columbia in 1992. His research interests include systems analysis and design,
database management, and electronic commerce. His research has been published
in journals such as Management Science, Communications of the ACM,
ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Journal of Management
Information Systems, and IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering. He is a member of the editorial boards of Journal
of the Association for Information Systems and Journal of Database
Management, and is co-guest editor of a forthcoming special theme issue of
the Journal of the Association for Information Systems and the Communications
of the Association for Information Systems, focusing on research in systems
analysis and design. Recently, he was appointed program co-chair for the 2008
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS).
Rajiv
Kishore is an associate professor in
the School of Management at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His primary research interest is in how
organizations can improve their IT services delivery capabilities, particularly
through IT outsourcing and globally distributed work, use of innovative systems
analysis and design methods and techniques, and adoption of advanced
technological innovations. His papers have been published or accepted for
publication in Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the
ACM, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, and Journal of
Healthcare Information Management. Rajiv has presented his research at ICIS,
HICSS, AMCIS, SIM, etc. He received a best paper award at AMCIS 2001 and was
nominated for a best paper award at AMCIS 2003 and HICSS 2004. He is also the
recipient of a multi-year National Science Foundation research grant as a
co-principal investigator in the area of IT outsourcing. Rajiv has consulted
with a number of large companies, some of which include BellSouth, Blue Cross
Blue Shield of Minnesota, IBM, and Pioneer Standard Electronics.
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AMCIS 2006:
Minitrack for SIGSAND Track
Systems
Analysis and Design:
Modeling
Methods, Techniques, and Languages
Minitrack Co-chairs:
John Erickson,
University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA
Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Background
This
mini-track was presented at AMCIS 2005, with a total of 6 submitted and 4
accepted papers. For the 2006
conference, the specific theme presented in the Call for Participation is
stated as “Connecting the Americas”. This
mini-track for AMCIS 2006, will provide a venue for researchers to present work
that addresses some of the issues related to the conference theme as well as
problems specific to Modeling Languages used in Systems Analysis and Design.
Description of Minitrack Topic
The
mini-track highlights the nature of modeling methods and languages focusing on
their growing and essential importance to the systems development process and
systems building efforts. This
mini-track would provide an outlet for researchers engaged in theory development,
and those working toward a more standardized set of concepts which would in
turn benefit researchers, educators, and practitioners working in the area of
method engineering and modeling language development, use, modification, and
assessment.
Relevant topics for this minitrack
include (but are not limited to)
· Information Modeling for E-Commerce
· Modeling Business-to-business E-Commerce
· Modeling E-Commerce Architectures
· Object-Oriented Models (e.g., UML, )
· Requirements Engineering
· Languages used in Database Modeling
· Database Systems and Technologies
· Enterprise Modeling
· Advances in ER Modeling
· Advances in Process based modeling
We
expect about 8-12 submissions for this minitrack and propose two 90-minute
sessions (i.e., 6 accepted papers).
Contact Information
John Erickson
Department
of Marketing and Management
University of Nebraska at Omaha
RH503B College of Business Administration
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE, 68182, USA
Email: johnerickson@mail.unomaha.edu
Phone: 402.554.3163
Fax: 402.554.3817
Keng Siau
Department
of Management
209
College of Business Administration
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491, USA
Email: ksiau@unl.edu
Tel:
402.472.3078
Fax:
402.472.5855
URL:
http://www.ait.unl.edu/siau/
Bio-Sketches
John
Erickson is an Assistant Professor in the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His current research interests include study of UML
as an OO systems development tool, software engineering, and the impact of
structural complexity upon the people and systems involved in the application
development process. He has published in
Communications of the ACM, the Journal of Database management, and Industrial
Management and Data Systems, several refereed conferences such as AMICIS, ICIS,
WITS, EMMSAD, CAiSE, and DSI, authored materials for a distance education
course at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, collaborated on a book chapter,
and co-chaired minitracks at the 2004 and 2005 AMCIS Conferences.
Keng Siau is a Full Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL). He is also the Editor in Chief of the Journal of
Database Management and the Senior Editor for the book series “Advanced Topics
in Database Research.” He received his Ph.D. degree from the University
of British Columbia (UBC) where he majored in Management Information Systems
and minored in Cognitive Psychology. He has published more than 75
journal articles and these articles have appeared in journals such as
Management Information Systems Quarterly, CACM, IEEE Computer, Information
Systems, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, ACM's Data
Base, Journal of Database Management, Journal of Information Technology,
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Transactions on Information
and Systems, Quarterly Journal of E-Commerce, and others. In addition, he
has published over 90 refereed conference papers in proceedings such as ICIS,
HICSS, ECIS, WITS, and AMCIS. He served/is serving as the Organizing and
Program Co-Chairs for the International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling
Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD) (1996 - 2006). He also chaired
a number of minitracks for AMCIS and HICSS.
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AMCIS 2006 SAND Mini-Track
Agile Methodologies in Systems
Development
Mini-track Co-chairs:
Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Georgia State University
Sandeep Purao, Pennsylvania State University
Ramesh
Venkataraman, Indiana University
Mini-Track Topic Description
Agile
software development challenges the traditional way of software development.
Rapidly changing environments, evolving requirements and tight schedule
constraints require software developers to take a fast cycle approach towards
the process of software development. Agile software development occurs in a
dynamic and learning environment rather than in a mature and standardized
software market. Agile methods support shorter project lifecycles in order to
respond to complex, fast-moving, and competitive marketplaces. The features of the system emerge throughout
the development process, while heavily relying on feedback from the customer.
The rise
of software development on Internet time has created tremendous interest among practitioners
in agile development. Organizational agility, the ability to react quickly and
flexibly to environmental or market changes, is an intended outcome of the use
of agile methods. Best known agile
methodologies include: Extreme Programming, SCRUM, Feature Driven Development,
Dynamic Systems Development Method, Crystal family, and Agile Modeling. Though there is strong interest among
researchers and practitioners on the use of agile methods, current knowledge on
their use, applicability and effectiveness is fragmented and limited to the
specific aspects of agile development. The
minitrack seeks to develop a broader understanding of the role of agile methods
in systems development and address the ongoing debate in the software
development community on the role of agile methods. It will bring together
research on agile development from multiple-perspectives including principles,
practices, techniques, tools, economics, management and development.
Topics of interest to the minitrack include, but are not limited to:
· Foundations of agile development methods such as XP, SCRUM, Crystal, DSDM, FDD etc.
· Empirical studies & results on the applicability and effectiveness of agile development practices
· Agile development methodologies, processes, tools and environments
· Economics & risk management in agile development
· Organizational and management of agile projects
· Role of agile methods in large-scale, mission critical systems and large teams
· Adoption of Agile development in organizations
· Comparison of agile development with plan-driven (traditional) methodologies
· Investigation of specific practices such as user stories, on-site customer, planning game, short releases, simple design, refactoring, pair programming, continuous integration, collective code ownership, coding standards, sprints etc.
·
Relationship to
established practices such as Rapid Prototyping, Rapid application development
(RAD), Joint application design (JAD)
Contact
Information
Balasubramaniam Ramesh
Department of Computer Information Sysems
Georgia State University
35 Broad Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: 404-651-3823
Email: bramesh@gsu.edu
Sandeep
Purao
Ramesh Venkataraman
Indiana University
Department of Accounting and
Information Systems
Tenth and Fee Lane
Bloomington, IN 47401
Telephone: (812)855-2641
Email: venkat@indiana.edu
Bio Sketch
Balasubramaniam
Ramesh is
Professor of Computer Information Systems at Georgia State University. His work has focused on supporting requirements
engineering and traceability in systems development, agile software
development, knowledge management and business process redesign. His work has
appeared in over 70 papers in leading journals and conferences, including IEEE
Transactions on Software Engineering, Annals of Software Engineering,
Communications of the ACM, IEEE Software, IEEE Computer, IEEE Expert, IEEE
Intelligent Systems, IEEE Internet Computing, Journal of the AIS and Decision
Support Systems. He is a recipient of over twenty research grants from
prestigious government and private organizations. Models and tools developed by
his research have been widely adopted in practice and incorporated in several
leading Computer Aided System Engineering tools.
Sandeep
Purao is Associate
Professor in the School of Information Science and Technology at Penn State University. His research is focused on various aspects of
information system design and development in organizations. His current
research includes abstractions of system development knowledge for reuse-based
design, measurement for object-oriented design, co-design of information
systems and business processes, and design theory. His has published over 50
papers in leading journals and conferences including Information systems
research, Journal of the MIS, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and
Cybernetics, Communications of the ACM, ACM Computing Surveys and Decision
Support Systems. His past projects have included design for object
distribution, document management, and multi-criteria decision-making. He
continues to be interested in pedagogical issues for information system
developers.
V. Ramesh is Associate Professor in the
Information Systems Department and Ford Motor Company Teaching Fellow at
Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He is the director of the MS in
Information Systems program. He has
published over 25 papers in leading journals, book and conferences. His
research interests are Data Modeling, Heterogeneous Databases, Virtual Teams
and Groupware, Usability in Mobile Systems and Software Engineering, and his
teaching interests include Database Design, Object-oriented Design and
Programming (Java and VB.NET), Web Applications Development (JSP/Servlets,
ASP.NET), E-business Infrastructure. His research has been published in such
journals as Communications of the ACM, JMIS, ACM TOIS, Information Systems,
IEEE Expert etc.
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AMCIS 2006: Minitrack for SIGSAND Track
Productivity and Quality in Systems Analysis and
Design
Minitrack Co-chairs:
Marcus A. Rothenberger, University of Nevada
Las Vegas
Yi-Ching Kao, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Mini-track Topic Description
The efficient and effective development of software is
a critical information system issue in organizations. An increasing number of
companies are trying to improve their software development process by employing
various techniques, such as reuse, component-based development, web-services,
middleware technologies (e.g., COM+, Java Beans), extreme programming, etc.
While none of these techniques by itself is the silver bullet for the software
community, they have the potential to positively impact software productivity.
Research must determine (i) how existing techniques can be successfully
employed, and (ii) what new techniques have the potential to improve the way we
are developing software.
This mini-track provides a forum for both technical
and organizational issues on the use of techniques and methodologies that aim
to improve productivity of the software development process.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to
the following:
·
Case studies in productivity and quality in SAND
·
Quality and Productivity metrics
·
Capability Maturity Model (CMM), CMMI & ISO Standards
·
Methods, outcomes and impacts in evaluating productivity or quality in SAND
·
Software reuse
·
The effects of system integration on productivity and quality
·
Organizational issues in promoting productivity & quality of SAND
·
The impact of systems maintenance on productivity and quality
·
Patterns for software design
·
The impact of software customization on productivity and quality
Contact Information
Marcus A. Rothenberger
Department of MIS
College of Business
University of Nevada
Las Vegas
Phone: (702) 895-2890
Fax: (702) 895-0802
Email: marcus.rothenberger@unlv.edu
Yi-Ching Kao
School of Business Administration
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Phone: (414) 229-6189
Fax: (414)
229-5999
Email: yiching@uwm.edu
Bio-sketches
Marcus Rothenberger is an Associate Professor in the MIS Department at the University of Nevada,
Las Vegas. Before his current appointment he was an Assistant
Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He earned his Ph.D. degree
from Arizona State University. His research interests focus on the
improvement of the software development process, including component-based
software development and software reuse, software development offshoring, and
the adoption and customization of commercial off-the-shelf software, such as
Enterprise Resource Planning systems. Dr. Rothenberger’s work has been
published in such academic journals as Decision Sciences, IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering, Communications of the ACM, and Information &
Management.
Yi-Ching Kao
is an assistant professor in the School of Business Administration at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. She has a Ph.D. in Management Science and
Information Systems from the University of Texas
at Dallas. She won the Best Accounting Information
Systems Dissertation Award presented by American Accounting Association in
2004. Her research interests include
management and evaluation of software development process, business value of
information technology, and assessment of electronic commerce. Dr. Kao has published in the Journal of Information
Systems.
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AMCIS 2006: Minitrack for SIGSAND Track
Systems
Analysis and Design for IS Development in Distributed Environments
Minitrack
Co-chairs:
Narayan
Ramasubbu, University of Michigan, USA
Vijay Khatri, Indiana University, USA
Akhilesh
Bajaj, University of Tulsa, USA
Mini-track Topic Description
This mini-track will focus on software development in
distributed environments, a phenomenon that has become pervasive in the recent
years. Distributed software development achieves division of labor by
dispersing software development tasks among several remotely located
development centers. These remote teams interact through interdependent tasks
and work across space, time, cultural and organizational boundaries. This mode
of software development raises several challenges that are distinct from those
of co-located software development. The aim of this track is to provide a forum
to discus the characteristics of these challenges and the emerging solutions
that address them.
We are interested in wide ranging issues involving
both the personnel and software artifact dimensions of distributed development.
Personnel related issues in distributed development include, but are not
limited to, managing communication and coordination over distance, task
uncertainties and remote personnel management, cultural differences, remote
personnel stress and job satisfaction. Issues related to the software artifact
dimension include architecture and design of software for distributed
development, infrastructure for distributed development, version control and
synchronization of remote work, etc. While each of these individual dimensions
of distributed development presents rich avenues for research, tremendous
opportunity also exists for research that examines the interplay between
personnel and software artifact dimensions of distributed software development.
For example, analyzing the link between software architecture and the structure
of distributed teams and their interaction patterns has immense potential to
further our understanding of project performance in a distributed context.
We invite rigorous and relevant studies that examine
the above mentioned and other issues related to distributed development. We
solicit studies that contribute to the conceptualization and advancement of
theory in distributed software development as well as those that discuss
empirical phenomena from field.
List of potential topics includes, but is
not limited to:
·
Strategic and
transformational reasons for distributing software work
·
Project
management, processes and software architectures in a distributed software
development context
·
Communication,
co-ordination and co-operation in distributed software development
·
Software
development teams as virtual organizations
·
Multi-Cultural
teams in globally distributed software work sites
·
IT Infrastructure
Support for distributed software development
·
Risk Management
in distributed software development
·
Impact of
Sarbanes-Oxley on security issues arising out of distributed software
development
Contact
Information
Narayan Rama
Subbu
D0263
Ross School of Business
University of Michigan
701 Tappan Street
Ann Arbor MI 48197
email:
nramasub@umich.edu
Tel:
(734)528-0521
Fax:
(734)-936-0279
Vijay Khatri
Information Systems Department
Kelley School of Business
Indiana University
1309 East Tenth Street,
BU 572
Bloomington, IN
47405-1701
Email: vkhatri@indiana.edu
Phone: (812) 855-2581
Fax: (812)
856-3355
Akhilesh
Bajaj
University of Tulsa
Department of MIS
313 Business Administration Hall
600 S. College Ave.
Tulsa, OK
74104
USA
akhilesh-bajaj@utulsa.edu
Bio Sketches
Narayan
Ramasubbu is an assistant Professor
at Singapore Management
University. He completed his Ph.D. in Business
Administration at the
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. His research
interests include software engineering economics,
distributed product
development, software product standardization and
customization and,
business value of IT. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he
was a senior
developer with SAP AG in charge of designing and developing
enterprise
software solutions. His research has been presented at
the
/International Conference on Information Systems
(ICIS), America’s
Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Academy of
Management
Conferences, INFORMS/ and /IEEE Software/.
Vijay Khatri is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems in
the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington. He earned
his doctoral degree from the University of Arizona where he majored in Management
Information Systems and minored in Computer Science. Before his PhD, he has
worked in industry with Infosys Technologies and the IBM Consulting Group. His
research centers on issues related to data semantics, semiotics and conceptual
database design, temporal databases, and spatial databases. Currently, he
serves on the editorial review board of Journal of Database Management. He has
been a session chair at International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS
2003), International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2003) Tutorial and
Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology
(PICMET2001), and is a member of the program committee at the Workshop on
Information Technologies and Systems (WITS2004) and the International
Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2004). His research has been published in
journals as IEEE Transactions of Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information
Systems, Annals of Mathematics and
Artificial Intelligence, and Photogrammetric
Engineering and Remote Sensing.
Akhilesh
Bajaj is Chapman
Associate Professor of MIS, at the University of Tulsa.
He received a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Bombay in 1989, an MBA from Cornell University in 1991, and a Ph.D. in MIS (minor in Computer
Science) from the University of Arizona in 1997. Dr. Bajaj’s research deals with the construction and testing
of tools and methodologies that facilitate the construction of large
organizational systems, as well as studying the decision models of the actual
consumers of these information systems. He has published articles in several
academic journals such as Management
Science, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information
Systems and the Journal of the
Association of Information Systems. He is on the editorial board of several
journals in the MIS area. His research has been funded by the department of
defense (DOD). He teaches graduate courses on basic and advanced database
systems, management of information systems, and enterprise wide systems.
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AMCIS 2006: Minitrack for SIGSAND Track
Structured
and Iterative Development Methods for IS Development
Minitrack
Co-chairs:
Solomon
Antony, Murray State University, USA
Glenn Browne, Texas Tech University,
USA
Andrew
Gemino, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Mini-track Topic Description
Submissions are invited for the minitrack on
Structured and Iterative Methods for IS Development at AMCIS 2006. IS Development is a research area of central
importance in the information systems field.
The scope of this minitrack ranges from the formative aspects of systems
development (e.g., systems planning and feasibility) to core concepts such as
requirements determination to delivery of the final system product (e.g.,
system implementation). Also included
are issues in work process analysis and design, teamwork in SA&D, software
and component development, software reuse, web development issues, and
cross-cultural issues in IS development.
This minitrack is intended to bring together researchers working in structured
and iterative IS development and to highlight the continuing fundamental
position of systems analysis and design in the IS discipline.
Topics of interest in the minitrack include, but are
not limited to, the following:
·
Systems
Architecture Planning and Feasibility
·
Structured
Application Planning
·
Requirements
Determination - Elicitation, Representation, and Verification
·
Work Processes in
SA&D
·
Joint Application
Development (JAD) Practices and Issues
Teams and Teamwork in traditional software development
Comparing Systems Analysis and Design Techniques
·
Systems
Installation and Implementation Issues
·
Best Practices in
SA&D
·
Rational Unified
Process (RUP)
To submit papers and review submission guidelines, please visit [URL].
Submitted papers must follow the length and style
guidelines of AMCIS, which can be found at [URL].
Minitrack
Co-Chairs:
Solomon Antony
Computer Science & Information Systems
College of Business & Public Affairs
Murray State University
Murray, KY 42071
solomon.antony@murraystate.edu
Glenn J. Browne
Area of ISQS
Rawls College of Business Administration
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-2101
USA
gbrowne@ba.ttu.edu
Andrew Gemino
Simon Fraser University
Management Information Systems
8888 University Drive
Coquitlam,
BC V5A 1S6
gemino@sfu.ca
Bio Sketches
Solomon
Antony is an
Assistant Professor at Murray State University.
His
publications have appeared in refereed journals such as Decision Support
Systems, Data Base, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, European
Journal of Information Systems, Omega and refereed
conferences
such as AMCIS, WITS, and Informs. His
current research interests include data modeling, use of analogies in systems
development, and effects of knowledge-base systems. He received his Ph D from Florida
International University. "
Glenn J. Browne
is an associate professor and the James C. Wetherbe Professor of Information
Technology at the Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech
University, U.S.A. He received his Ph.D.
from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on cognitive and
behavioral issues in information requirements determination, systems
development, e-business, and managerial decision making. His research has
appeared in Management Science, Organizational Behavior and Human
Decision Processes, the Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE
Software, Information and Management, and other journals
Andrew Gemino is an Assistant Professor in the Management
Information Systems Area in the Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser
University. He holds two Masters degrees (Economics, Business Administration)
and a PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of British
Columbia. His research focuses on the effective communication of information
system requirements. He has published in academic journals including
Communications of the ACM, Requirements Engineering Journal, European Journal
of Information Systems, and Data and Knowledge Engineering. Andrew lectures in
the areas of system analysis and design, project management and decision
support systems at Simon Fraser University. He has taught at the University of
British Columbia and the Erasmus School of Business in Rotterdam and recently
served as academic director for the Information Technology Project Management
Program at Simon Fraser University.
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AMCIS 2006: Minitrack for SIGSAND Track
Teaching, Training
and Learning SAND: Challenges and Paradigm Choices
Minitrack
Co-chairs:
John
Satzinger, Missouri State University, USA
Dinesh Batra, Florida
International University, USA
Description
Ongoing changes in software development environments
and architectures have resulted in new and innovative development methodologies
and analysis and design techniques, as revealed by the topics in the current
SAND mini tracks. Research is called for that identifies and evaluates the
teaching and learning implications we face as a field as we juggle so many
changes. For example, it is difficult to find developers who are not discussing
UML, design patterns, agile and iterative development, the unified process
(UP), extreme programming (XP), and scrum. However, conversations among
academic colleagues teaching systems analysis and design courses reveal that
there may be a lag in the diffusion of newer analysis and design techniques and
methodologies in the classroom. Are there still fundamental debates about what
we should be teaching? Have we defined a core set of SAND concepts and
techniques that might be cohesively taught? Are the newer techniques and
methodologies difficult for traditional analysis and design instructors to
adopt? Do students have difficulty learning and using the newer techniques? Is
there not sufficient demand for graduates with newer analysis and design
skills? Research papers that address these questions and pose others concerning
teaching, training and learning new SAND techniques and methodologies are
solicited for this mini-track.
Minitrack
Chairs
John
Satzinger
Computer
Information Systems
Missouri State University
901 S. National Avenue
Springfield, MO 65897
Office
(417) 836-4837
Fax
(417) 836-6907
JohnSatzinger@MissouriState.edu
Dinesh Batra
Decision Sciences and Information Systems
College of Business Administration
Florida International University
Miami Florida 33199
Phone: (305) 348-2645;
Bio Sketches:
John W.
Satzinger is professor of computer information
systems at Missouri State University, having previously taught at the
University of Georgia and Cal Poly Pomona. He holds a Ph.D. in MIS from The
Claremont Graduate University and is co-author of Systems Analysis and Design
in a Changing World (3nd Ed.), Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with the
Unified Process, and three other books on OO system development. Dr.
Satzinger's research on information systems and human factors is published in
journals such as Information
Systems Research,
Journal of Management Information Systems, and Communications of the AIS.
Dinesh Batra is a Professor at the Decision Sciences and
Information Systems at Florida International University, Miami. He has published in Management Science,
Communications of the ACM, Journal of MIS, Journal of Database Management,
International Journal of Human Computer Studies, European Journal of
Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Data Base, Information &
Management, and several other refereed journals. He is the President of the AIS SIGSAND, and
an Associate Editor for the Journal of Database Management and Information
Systems Management. He can be contacted
at batra@fiu.edu.
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AMCIS 2006: Minitrack for SIGSAND Track
Information
Technology Project Management
Minitrack
Co-chairs:
Terry Fox, Baylor
University, USA
Ric Huff, Colorado State University-Pueblo, USA
Description
Today’s business environment is intricately entwined
with technology, and is requiring an ever-increasing number of new applications
to support this environment, ranging from upgrades of transaction processing
systems to developing strategic information systems that will allow companies
to be competitive in today’s e-business world.
Learning from project management successes as well as failures and
applying this knowledge to the backlog of IT projects is imperative if IS
organizations expect to accomplish their objectives of projects completed
on-time, within budget, and which meet user specifications. The purpose of this
mini-track is to examine all aspects of information technology project
management and the current state of the project management industry, to learn
from the past, apply successful techniques to today’s projects, and educate the
IT project managers of tomorrow.
Possible Topics may include, but are not limited to,
the following:
·
case studies
(traditional, e-projects, and others) of project management success or failure
·
incorporating
project management into the systems development process
· applied project management theory and methodology
· analysis of project management tools and techniques
· project risk management
· critical success factors for an effective project
manager
· application of project management to related
disciplines
· curriculum issues related to teaching project
management at the undergraduate and graduate levels (e.g., approaches, case
scenarios used, etc.)
Minitrack
Co-Chairs
Terry L. Fox
Department of Information Systems
Hankamer School of Business
One Bear Place #98005
Waco, Texas 76798
Terry_Fox@baylor.edu
Richard A. Huff
Computer Information Systems Department
Hasan School of Business
Colorado State University - Pueblo
2200 Bonforte Blvd
Pueblo, CO 81001-4901
rick.huff@colostate-pueblo.edu
Bio
Sketches:
Terry L. Fox, PhD, CPA is an assistant professor in the Department
of Information Systems at Baylor University.
He has co-chaired the AMCIS Information Technology Project Management
minitrack for several years. He has
published a number of articles in various journals including DATABASE,
Information & Management, Project Management Journal, Journal of Computer
Information Systems and the Journal of Information Systems Education. His research interests include project
management, accounting information systems, and human computer interaction.
Richard
A. Huff, PhD, CPA, is an
associate professor in the Computer Information Systems Department at Colorado
State University - Pueblo. He has served at AMCIS as the co-chair of the Information
Technology Project Management minitrack since its inception. He has
published and presented numerous papers on many areas of information
systems. His current research interests include client//analyst/developer
communication, I.S. project management, team development methodologies, and
project health indicators.
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AMCIS 2006: Minitrack for SIGSAND Track
Service-based
Application Architecture and Development
Minitrack
Co-chairs:
Padmal
Vitharana
, Syracuse
University
Hemant Jain, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Background:
Advances in component based development (CBD), Web Services
technologies, and the concepts like Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) are
significantly impacting the whole paradigm of application development. These technologies and concepts have
significantly improved the interoperability at hardware, operating system, and
development language, and data levels.
This allows radically different approaches and business models to be
used for application development.
Started as a cost effective approach for integrating intra-firm and
inter-firm applications, service oriented architecture is increasingly becoming
an approach for architecting and developing applications.
Service-based applications offer a paradigm where
services represent the fundamental building blocks for application. Each service has an unambiguous interface
that could be composed with other services to build an application to support a
business process. For instance, a travel
application can be developed by assembling hotel
booking service, airline reservation
service, and rental car service. Self-describing services support quick,
low-cost composition of software applications.
Services can be rapidly deployed, easily reused, and are language,
platform, and network independent.
SOA-based implementations are employed in myriad organizational settings
such as insurance, state governments, and telecom. While SOA services can be delivered via local
or wide area networks, web services represent the instance where such services
are offered through the ever pervasive world-wide-web.
Early adoption of services technology, specifically
the web services, has been to facilitate integration of applications both
internal and external to organizations.
A typical organization has many applications from a variety of
vendors. These applications often need
to interact with each other. For
example, the payroll application is invariably related to the scheduling
application in that the human resource manager needs to assure that the
personnel scheduled to work on a particular project gets paid on time. However, because these applications have
traditionally been proprietary, the developer had to write an elaborate
application programming interface (API) to facilitate messaging between these
two applications. Using standardized,
non-proprietary protocols that are vendor-, platform-, and network independent,
web services facilitates application integration. For instance, a buyer can use web services to
connect its own purchase application with the inventory management application
of a business partner. As integration of
applications is argued to be a significant hindrance to operations within and
between firms, one can see why the business community is excited about these
technologies.
In spite of the significant interest in the business
community in service based applications, the processes and methodologies for
designing, architecting and developing service based applications are in their
infancy. Numerous interesting research
issues related to development approaches, design models, project team organization,
communication within and across project teams, and governance needs to be
addressed. The mini-track will foster
research in this important area of service-based application development.
Possible
research topics for the mini-track include (but not limited to):
·
Service oriented
application development (i.e., issues in service fabrication and application
assembly).
·
Service reuse in
developing applications.
·
Cost estimation
and pricing for service-based projects and applications.
·
Reliability and
maintenance of service-based solutions.
·
Promotion, sale,
and distribution of services (including certification and licensing).
·
Requirements
analysis for service based applications.
·
Business Process
Support using service based applications.
·
Managerial issues
(e.g., management commitment, training, and incentives for service-based
reuse).
·
Organizational
issues (e.g., policies or procedures that foster reuse).
Contact
Information:
Padmal
Vitharana
Suite 516
Whitman School of
Management
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
13244-2130 U.S.A
Phone: (315) 443-3132
Fax: (315) 443-5457
Email: padmal@syr.edu
Hemant Jain
School of Business Administration
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
P.O. Box 742, Milwaukee, WI 53201 U.S.A
Phone: (414) 229-4832
Fax: (414) 229-6957
Email: jain@uwm.edu
Bio
Sketches:
Padmal Vitharana is an assistant professor of information systems in
the School of Management at Syracuse University. He received his Bachelor of Science, Master
of Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University
of Wisconsin system. His primary
research interests are in component and service development and application
assembly, and their implications on software development and integration
agility. His research has been published
in journals such as the Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Man, Systems, and Cybernetics,
Information and Management, and Database for Advances in Information Systems.
Hemant Jain is Wisconsin Distinguished & Tata Consultancy
Services Professor of Management Information System. He has published over
fifty articles in leading journals like Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, IEEE transactions on Software Engineering,
Journal of MIS, IEEE Transactions Systems Man and Cybernetics, Navel Research
Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Communications of ACM,
and Information & Management.
Additionally, he has published over 40 papers in referred conference
proceedings.
Prof. Jain is an associate editor of Information
Systems Research. He also serves on the
editorial Board of the Information Technology & Management, International
Journal of Web Services Research, Information Management, and International
Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making. He is on the board and member of Steering
Committee of IEEE Technical Community for Services Computing and is a member of
Service, Systems and Organizations Technical Committee of the IEEE SMC
Society. He was the program committee
co-chair of 2004 IEEE conference on Web services.
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