16th International Conference on
Information Systems Development (ISD2007)
Galway, Ireland
August 29-31, 2007


Call for Papers

We invite the submission of papers to the 16th International Conference on Information Systems Development, to be held in Galway, Ireland, August 29-31, 2007 (ISD2007).

Tracks for ISD2007 include the following:

Managing IS Development

Track Chairs:
        Brian O'Flaherty, University College Cork, Ireland
        Gaye Kiely, University College Cork, Ireland

Issues of relevance to this track include the following:

  • Requirements management
  • Project management
  • Project costing
  • Risk management
  • Outsourcing
  • Collaborative work practices (e.g. pair programming)
  • Team communication issues
  • The role of users in ISD
  • Human resource management in ISD

Innovation in Information Systems Development

Track Chairs:
        Brian Donnellan, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
        Séamas Kelly, University College Dublin, Ireland            

Issues of relevance to this track include the following:

  • Organisational transformation
  • Co-design of business and IT
  • Change management in ISD
  • Social and political factors in ISD
  • Managing knowledge and creativity in ISD
  • ISD and competitive advantage
  • ISD and rural development
  • ICT-enabled communities of practice in software development

Enterprise Systems Development & Adoption

Track Chairs:
        Anders G. Nilsson, Karlstad University, Sweden
        Odd Fredriksson, Karlstad University, Sweden

Issues of relevance to this track include the following:

  • Development and implementation of ERP systems
  • COTS systems implementation
  • Decision support systems
  • Expert systems
  • Accounting information systems
  • Customer relationship management (CRM) systems
  • Supply chain management
  • Inter-organisational information systems
  • Evaluation of ISD investments

Public Information Systems Development

Track Chair:   Michael Lang, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland  

Issues of relevance to this track include the following:

  • Information systems development in public sector organisations
  • Wide-audience information systems development
  • Business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce systems development
  • Design of e-government systems
  • Healthcare informatics
  • Tourism information systems
  • Mobile commerce (m-commerce) and interactive TV (t-commerce) application development
  • Corporate Web site design
  • Accessibility; usability; localisation, etc.
  • Issues in designing systems for the elderly e.g. "technophobia"

Agile and High-Speed Systems Development Methods

Track Chairs:
        Pär Ågerfalk, University of Limerick, Ireland
        Kieran Conboy, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
        Pekka Abrahamsson, VTT, Finland

Issues of relevance to this track include the following:

  • Empirical and conceptual studies of agile and other rapid systems development methods and techniques (e.g. XP, Scrum, DSDM, RAD, OSS)
  • "Lean" approaches for ISD project management
  • Agile software engineering economics
  • Business and social aspects of agile software development
  • Globally-distributed software development

Information Systems Engineering

Track Chair: Norah Power, University of Limerick, Ireland

Issues of relevance to this track include the following:

  • Software process improvement
  • Method engineering
  • Software metrics
  • Quality assurance
  • Configuration management
  • Version control
  • Security engineering
  • Component-based development
  • Usage of CASE tools

Business Systems Analysis & Design

Track Chairs:
        Larry Stapleton, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
        Chris Barry, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Issues of relevance to this track include the following:

  • Method tailoring
  • Systems planning
  • Requirements elicitation
  • Requirements analysis
  • Systems analysis & design techniques e.g. UML
  • User-centred design
  • Real-time systems design
  • Interaction design
  • Transition from structured approaches to object-oriented approaches
  • Workflow modelling
  • Business process modelling
  • Empirical studies in systems analysis & design
  • Philosophical issues in systems analysis & design

Data and Information Modelling

Track Chair:   Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland 

Issues of relevance to this track include the following:

  • Database design
  • Data modelling techniques
  • Software data quality
  • Knowledge engineering
  • Digital archives and libraries
  • Data warehousing
  • Practical applications of data mining

ISD Education

Track Chair:
        Murray Scott, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
        Lorraine Fisher, University College Dublin, Ireland

Issues of relevance to this track include the following:

  • E-learning
  • Problem / project-based learning (PBL) approaches
  • Service learning
  • New and innovative pedagogical models for ISD education
  • Use of educational technologies
  • Use of Internet-based resources in ISD education (e.g. on-line knowledge-bases, digital libraries, Internet blogs and WIKI's)
  • Case studies and experience reports, etc.

ISD in Developing Nations

Track Chair: John Traxler, University of Wolverhampton, UK

In the "developed" countries of Europe, North America, parts of Asia, Africa and South America, information systems development is an established, mature and diverse activity. In the "developing" countries of South America, Asia and especially Africa, infrastructure, technology and governance are certainly different, often poorer, and information systems development is less well established and possibly struggling to emulate or track how things are done in the developed countries. This track of ISD2007 is the focus for exploring the issues and experiences of IS development outside its conventional arena, where it is increasing well documented and theorised. Themes include:

  • IS Development for Government, Health and Education
  • IS Development and Millennium Development Goals
  • Developing Nomadic and Mobile IS Systems
  • IS Development within/across Cultures and Societies
  • IS Project Sustainability in Developing Countries
  • "Appropriate" IS
  • IS Projects: Donors, Funders, Champions and Users
  • Applying IS Development Principles to IS Project Implementation in Developing Countries e.g. Requirements elicitation, project management etc.
  • Appropriate Application Technologies for ICT implementation in Developing Countries
  • The Implications of ICT Projects in Rural Development Activities

Legal and Administrative Aspects of ISD

Track Chairs:
        Rónán Kennedy, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
        Maureen O'Sullivan, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Relevant topics for this track include, but are not limited to, the following issues in so far as they apply to information systems development and implementation:

  • Data protection and data privacy
  • Legal regulation of the Internet
  • Legal regulation of virtual worlds
  • Legal regulation of electronic commerce, electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic funds transfer (EFT and EFTPOS)
  • Computer crime and IT forensics
  • Intellectual property law - copyright, patents and trademarks
  • Digital rights management
  • Computers in legal administration, the courts and law enforcement

Service Oriented Modelling and Semantic Web Technologies

Track Chairs:
        William Song, University of Durham, UK
        Remigijus Gustas, Karlstad University, Sweden
        Yuansheng Zhong, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economy, China

Issues of relevance to this track include the following:

  • Web services and service oriented architecture
  • Web services standards
  • e-Services and e-Businesses
  • e-Services and workflows
  • e-Services and business process/integration
  • Web services system development
  • Web services system quality
  • Service-oriented modeling of Information systems
  • Enterprise models of services
  • Business design alignment with services
  • Semantics and pragmatics of services
  • Ontologies for e-Services

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