-------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [AISWorld] CFP: new deadline, special issue SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SYSTEMIC THINKING, RESEARCH AND TEACHING ISSUES for IJITSA, an IGI Global journal, due date April 30th 2015 Datum: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 15:11:44 +0000 Von: Petkov, Doncho (Business Administration) PetkovD@easternct.edu An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org aisworld@lists.aisnet.org

Call for Papers – new deadline: International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA, IGI Global) Special Issue on: SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SYSTEMIC THINKING: RESEARCH AND TEACHING ISSUES Submission Due Date extended to 4/30/2015

Guest Editors Don Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA George Schell, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA Theo Andrew, Durban University of Technology, South Africa Details can be found also at: http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-inf...

Introduction The importance of Systems Analysis and Design (SA&D) for any program of study in information systems and to the field of Information Technology (IT) development is well summarized by Harris et al. (2006). The re-emerging interest in SA&D a few years ago (see Parsons et al., (2005)) was evolving in parallel with a renewed interest in the applicability of systems thinking to Information Systems as a discipline (see Mora et al., 2007, Petkov et al., 2008). A number of relevant papers on the application of systemic approaches to Information Systems development were published over the last seven years in the International Journal on Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA). The body of knowledge in Soft Systems Methodology has reached a stage of maturity that allows reflections on how it is applied in practice (see Checkland & Winter (2006) for general insights on SSM and Rose & Saifullah (2012) for a recent case study of its application to IS development). The Work System Theory by Steven Alter, a systemic methodology specifically developed to bridge the gap in the language of IT practitioners and the clients, has also been the subject of increasing research (see Alter (2013)). We seek to identify the state of research on applying or teaching systemic approaches to systems analysis and design in the last several years and hence this special issue call for papers.

Objective The objective of the special issue is to disseminate high quality research that links systemic approaches and systems analysis and design and shows how that can be practiced in IT projects or how such ideas can be taught to IT students at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Recommended Topics - Combining systemic thinking and agile software development - Combining systemic thinking and object oriented analysis - Management of software development, action research and systems thinking - Using systemic action research for studying the effectiveness of object oriented modeling - Using systemic approaches to decide on development methods enabling balance between discipline and agility in software development (as advocated by Boehm &Turner, 2004) - Systems approaches applied to the management of IT outsourcing - Systemic approaches, systems analysis and design science research in IS - Systems Analysis and Design in the curriculum - System Analysis and Design methods and Process Models and Standards (ISO 12207, ISO 29110, CMMI, among others) - System Dynamics Models for supporting System Analysis and Design - Systemic thinking and software requirements analysis - Soft Systems Methodology and action research applied to IS development - Teaching systems approaches to IT students and practitioners - Work System Theory and its applications

Submission Procedure Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SYSTEMIC THINKING – RESEARCH AND TEACHING ISSUES on or before April 30th, 2015. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. All manuscript submissions to IJITSA should be sent through the online submission system:http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspx

All inquiries should be directed to the attention of: Don Petkov Guest Co-Editor International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) E-mail: petkovd@easternct.edu; petkovdon@yahoo.com References Alter, S. (2013). Work system theory: overview of core concepts, extensions, and challenges for the future. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 14 (2): 72-121. Boehm, B. and R. Turner (2004). Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed, Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, Inc. Checkland, P. and Winter, M. (2006). Process and content: Two ways of using SSM. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 57 (12): 1435-1441. Harris A. L, Lang, M., Oates B., Siau, K. (2006) “Systems Analysis & Design: An Essential Part of IS Education, Journal of Information Systems Education, 17 (3): 241-248. Mora, M. Gelman, O, Forgionne, G. Petkov D and Cano, (2007) J. Integrating the fragmented pieces in IS research paradigms and frameworks – a systems approach, Information Resource Management Journal, 20(2): 1-22. Parsons, J., Iivari, J., & Hevner A. (2005) Research in Information Systems Analysis and Design: Introduction to the Special Theme Papers, Communications of the AIS, 16: 810-813. Petkov, D., Edgar-Nevill, D, Madachy, R., O’Connor, R. (2008). Information Systems, Software Engineering and Systems Thinking? Challenges and Opportunities. International Journal on Information Technologies and the Systems Approach 1 (1): 62—78. Rose, J., Saifullah, M. (2012), Bridging Worlds: Information Systems Development through Cross-Cultural Comparison, Systemic Practice and Action Research, 25 (6): 511-536

D. Petkov, PhD Professor, Information Systems Business Administration Department ECSU, 83 Windham St Willimantic CT 06226-2295, USA petkovd@easternct.edumailto:petkovd@easternct.edu Webb hall 336, 860 4650264 http://nutmeg.easternct.edu/~petkovd/

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