-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [AISWorld] IJITSA ToC 4(1) Jan-Jun 2011 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:36:24 -0600 (CST) From: Manuel Mora T. mmora@securenym.net Reply-To: mmora@securenym.net To: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org CC: frank.stowell@port.ac.uk
========================================================================= The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association Volume 4, Issue 1, January-June 2011 Published: Semi-Annual in Print and Electronically ISSN: 1935-570X EISSN: 1935-5718 Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA www.igi-global.com/ijitsa ========================================================================= Editors-in-Chief: Frank Stowell (Ed.) (University of Portsmouth, UK) Manuel Mora (Ed.) (Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, México)
EDITORIAL PREFACE
Frank Stowell, Editor-in-Chief of IJITSA, University of Portsmouth, England Manuel Mora, Operational Editor-in-Chief of IJITSA, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, México
This special issue on Service-oriented Software Engineering: Foundations, Architectures, SDLCs and Innovative Applications, is led by Professor Annette Lerine Steenkamp, Lawrence Technological University, USA, and Professor Carina Gonzalez, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain, as guest editors. This issue includes two invited papers from Senior Researchers in the areas of ITSM and SOA, and four regular double-blind peer-reviewed papers. We are grateful to our colleagues Professor Steenkamp and Professor Gonzalez for their academic effort for developing this special issue on such a relevant topic, and helping to build a premier journal which is focused on strengthening the research activities in Information Systems discipline through the methodological lenses of the Systems Approach.
To read the preface, please consult this issue of IJITSA in your library or click here. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=47712
GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE
Annette Lerine Steenkamp, Lawrence Technological University, USA Carina Gonzalez, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain
To read the guest editorial preface, please consult this issue of IJITSA in your library or click here. http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=47712
PAPER ONE
Software Development Life Cycles and Methodologies: Fixing the Old and Adopting the New
Sue Conger (University of Dallas, USA)
Information Systems as a discipline has generated thousands of research papers, yet the practice still suffers from poor-quality applications. This paper evaluates the current state of application development, finding practice wanting in a number of areas. Changes recommended to fix historical shortcomings include improved management attention to risk management, testing, and detailed work practices. In addition, for industry?s move to services orientation, recommended changes include development of usable interfaces and a view of applications as embedded in the larger business services in which they function. These business services relate to both services provided to parent-organization customers as well as services provided by the information technology organization to its constituents. Because of this shift toward service orientation, more emphasis on usability, applications, testing, and improvement of underlying process quality are needed. The shift to services can be facilitated by adopting tenets of IT service management and user-centered design and by attending to service delivery during application development.
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PAPER TWO
Model-Driven Engineering of Composite Service Oriented Applications
Bill Karakostas (City University London, UK) Yannis Zorgios (CLMS Ltd., UK)
Composite applications integrate web services with other business applications and components to implement business processes. Model-driven approaches tackle the complexity of composite applications caused by domain and technology heterogeneity and integration requirements. The method and framework described in this paper generate all artefacts (workflow, data, user interfaces, etc.), required for a composite application from high level service oriented descriptions of the composite application, using model transformation and code generation techniques.
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PAPER THREE
An Open and Service-Oriented Architecture to Support the Automation of Learning Scenarios
Ângels Rius (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) Francesc Santanach (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) Jordi Conesa (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) Magí Almirall (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain) Elena García-Barriocanal (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain)
The specifications of automated learning scenarios can lead to advantages for virtual learning environments and important benefits for organizations, although research in this e-learning area has not addressed this issue. To achieve this goal, one requirement is to have an infrastructure able to support the execution of specifications of learning scenarios. This paper presents an open service-oriented architecture based on the Open Services Interface Definition (OSID) specifications proposed by the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) and other normative specifications. The architecture is used as a technological infrastructure in a virtual learning environment with more than 40,000 students enrolled and has been tested as the infrastructure of a tool to automate specifications of learning scenarios. A case study has been used to test the suitability of the architecture and describe such a tool for the future.
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PAPER FOUR
Analysis of Click Stream Patterns using Soft Biclustering Approaches
P. Banu (Narasu?s Sarathy Institute of Technology, India) H. Inbarani (Periyar University, India)
As websites increase in complexity, locating needed information becomes a difficult task. Such difficulty is often related to the websites? design but also ineffective and inefficient navigation processes. Research in web mining addresses this problem by applying techniques from data mining and machine learning to web data and documents. In this study, the authors examine web usage mining, applying data mining techniques to web server logs. Web usage mining has gained much attention as a potential approach to fulfill the requirement of web personalization. In this paper, the authors propose K-means biclustering, rough biclustering and fuzzy biclustering approaches to disclose the duality between users and pages by grouping them in both dimensions simultaneously. The simultaneous clustering of users and pages discovers biclusters that correspond to groups of users that exhibit highly correlated ratings on groups of pages. The results indicate that the fuzzy C-means biclustering algorithm best and is able to detect partial matching of preferences.
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PAPER FIVE
Business Innovation and Service Oriented Architecture: An Empirical Investigation
Bendik Bygstad (Norwegian School of Information Technology, Norway) Tor-Morten Grønli (Norwegian School of Information Technology, Norway) Helge Bergh (Norwegian ASA, Norway) Gheorghita Ghinea (Brunel University, UK)
Recent research suggests that a strong link exists between business innovation and service oriented IT architectures: modern IT architecture enables business to quickly create new services. However, the relationship between IT capabilities and business performance is not always straightforward. How does SOA support fast innovation in practice, and under which conditions is it effective? In this paper, the authors investigate these issues and ask: How can a SOA architecture like the Enterprise Service Bus support business innovation? This paper investigates this question through a case study at an airline company. Analyzing the relationship between innovation and IT architecture in the company over time, the authors offer the following conclusion: ESB gives strong support to business innovation, under two conditions. First, the implementation of ESB has to be comprehensive, that is, it should include the core processes of the business. Second, the top management (and partners) need to understand the principles of ESB.
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PAPER SIX
A Service Oriented Architecture for Coordination in Collaborative Environments
Beatriz Valverde (University of Granada, Spain) Miguel Román (University of Granada, Spain) Francisco Vela (University of Granada, Spain) Patricia Rodríguez (University of Granada, Spain)
An important feature in collaborative environment is coordination, defined as the act of managing interdependencies between activities performed to achieve a goal. These interdependencies can be the result of loosely integrated collaborative activities (the use of coordination processes within the collaboration activities is not required) or tightly integrated collaborative activities (sophisticated coordination mechanisms are necessary). The existence of both activities along with the dynamic nature of these environments adds a greater complexity to the coordination that has not been taken into account in traditional collaborative systems. In this work, the authors present a partially Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) that defines and maintains dynamic coordination polities in collaborative systems based on coordination models.
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Mission of IJITSA:
The International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) is an academic and practitioner journal created to disseminate and discuss high quality research results on information systems and related upper and lower level systems as well as on its interactions with software engineering, systems engineering, complex systems and philosophy of systems sciences issues, through rigorous theoretical, modeling, engineering or behavioral studies in order to explore, describe, explain, predict, design, control, evaluate, interpret, intervene and/or develop organizational systems where information systems are the main objects of study and the systems approach ? any variant ?is the main research method and philosophical stance used.
Coverage of IJITSA:
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:
Applied cases of the systems approach in CS area Applied cases of the systems approach in IS area Applied cases of the systems approach in SE area Applied cases of the systems approach in SwE area Conceptual analysis of existent research methods based in the systems approach Curriculum design for systems science Design or enhancement of research methods based in the systems approach Design, building and evaluation of components, subsystems, systems, or systems of systems by using system methodologies/process related with IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Design, evaluation, or application of systemic engineering frameworks/taxonomies for IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Design, evaluation, or application of systemic management frameworks/taxonomies for IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Design, evaluation, or application of engineering standards and best practices based in the systems approach applied in the solving, dissolving, or resolving of real or theoretical systems of problems for IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Design, evaluation or application of management standards and best practices based in the systems approach applied in the solving, dissolving, or resolving of real or theoretical systems of problems for IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Design, evaluation, or application of systemic engineering methodologies/process for IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Design, evaluation, or application of systemic engineering models for IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Design, evaluation, or application of systemic management methodologies/process for IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Design, evaluation ,or application of systemic management models for IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Didactical cases on the teaching of the systems approach Evaluation or critique of research methods based in the systems approach Formulation of systemic engineering-oriented constructs for IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Formulation of systemic management -oriented constructs for IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Frameworks, models and constructs for efficiency, efficacy, effectiveness, ethical and aesthetical system measures Integration of hard and soft systems methods Integration of hard, soft, and critical methods Integration of hard, soft, critical and realist methods Integration of soft and critical methods Philosophical studies of systems science research frameworks and paradigms Philosophical studies of complex systems research frameworks and paradigms based in the systems approach Philosophical studies of interdisciplinary research for IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Philosophical studies of IS research frameworks and paradigms based in the systems approach Philosophical studies of SE research frameworks and paradigms based in the systems approach Philosophical studies of SwE research frameworks and paradigms based in the systems approach Project management for the design of components, subsystems, systems, or systems of systems by using system methodologies/process related with IS, SE, SwE, or CS areas Taxonomies of systems Taxonomies of types of information systems based in the systems approach
Topics expected to be integrated or discussed under the perspective of the systems approach with the long-term aim of obtaining a unified view of information systems.
As the systems approach is an interdisciplinary one, the diverse research methods are considered: conceptual, formal mathematical, systems simulation (discrete, multi-agent, or hybrid), systems dynamics, soft systems, action research, critical systems, and multi-methodology.
Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijitsa.
All inquiries and submissions should be sent to: Editor-in-Chief: Frank Stowell at frank.stowell@port.ac.uk and Manuel Mora at ijitsa@gmail.com =========================================================================
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