The role of information systems (IS) as representations of real-world systems is changing in
an increasingly digitalized world, suggesting that conceptual modeling is losing its …

Enterprise integration through integrated business information systems (IBIS) is necessary to
achieve agility in the current age of hyper-competition. Multi-agent systems (MAS) provide a …

This article explores extreme programming (XP) as an information systems development
approach and argues that it is mainly old wine in new bottles. We take an interpretive and …

Much computer science literature addresses the mechanics of the Unified Modelling
Language (UML) and requirements modelling, but little research has addressed the role of …

In this paper we introduce a technique to simplify requirements capture. The technique can
be used to derive functional requirements, specified in the form of UML use case diagrams …

For the IS discipline to balance focus and diversity, how can it best deal with the proliferation
of research topics and terminologies? How can we as IS researchers keep the discipline …

The software engineering offers a chance to the countries to create dramatic improvements
in economic development. The Pakistan software business also plays a significant role in …

Much of the prior work in business process modeling is activity-centric. Recently, an
information-centric approach has emerged, where a business process is modeled as the …

What inspires people to use Second Life, Apple computers or Google? Why are Pixar and
Dreamworks successful in animation? Which buzz draws scores of people to e-Bay and …

This paper introduces the Calculating with Concepts (CC) technique, which has been
developed to improve the precision of UML class diagrams and allows the formal reasoning …