This paper advances Picot and Baumann’s (2009) central paper on how organization and management theory (OMT) can enhance business information systems engineering (BISE). In particular, we extend their focus in three ways. We introduce the industry and inter-organizational relations as levels of analysis, which are of interests to BISE and we show specific methods to advance the links between OM...

To become world-class, manufacturing organisations employ an array of tools and methods to realise process improvement. However, many of these fail to meet expectations and/or bring about new less-well understood problems. Hence, prior to developing further tools and methods it is first necessary to understand the reasons why such initiatives fail. This paper seeks to elicit the root causes of ...

Requirements Engineering (RE) is a key step in any project aiming at evolving an information system (IS). Current developments, on mobile systems for example, involve a spatial and temporal dimension, often reserved to geographic IS (GIS). This requires more systematic methods for capturing and reasoning about the spatial and temporal nature of requirements. This paper proposes a framework for ...

A remarkable characteristic in the research on Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, such as productive systems, manufacturing systems, and information systems, is the heterogeneity of models. Due to the specific nature of these models, there are cases where multiple and heterogeneous models are necessary so that an adequate coverage of system aspects and of analytic results can be provided. This wor...

1 Richard L. Upchurch, Computer and Information Science, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, N. Darmouth, MA 02747, [email protected] 2 Judith E. Sims-Knight, Psychology Department, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, N. Darmouth, MA 02747, [email protected] Abstract—This paper discusses the use of an electronic portfolio in a software engineering course at the University of Massa...

This research focuses on providing integrated, structured, and userindependent domain knowledge for system analysts and designers. We take an ontological approach to representation of domain knowledge to support the process of obtaining domain knowledge in information system development. Domain knowledge learned by system analysts is their evolving perceptions of the application domain which is...

For adequate Cost Engineering, information generated and affected by different engineering tasks as well as effective communication are prerequisites. In the context of Concurrent Engineering, Cost Engineering requires an information management system. The Manufacturing Engineering Reference Model incorporates an appropriate basis for the management of cost information. All cost information is ...