Curricula in information systems embrace a broad range of topics that leave the identity of information systems as a discipline somewhat in flux. In the spirit of “the first among equals,” we posit that design should have preeminence in the education of information systems professionals. Design frames problem understanding and defines what system’s quality means. It behooves our profession to p...

As early as 1973, Peter Drucker described a shift in the structure of society in which knowledge workers were pointed out as the workers of the future. Definition: A knowledge worker is a person principally concerned with data, information, and knowledge as working objects, often working with these in both the physical world and the virtual world (digital information spaces), and sometimes in t...

As programming languages and software development paradigms have evolved, so has our conception of what is meant by the term ‘software reuse’. In this paper we track these shifts in meaning up to the era of component frameworks. Our concerns, initially related to the maintenance of shared libraries, have become a study of dynamic evolution. The designers of modern programming languages and runt...

The visions of ambient intelligence demand novel interaction paradigms that enable designers and system developers to frame and manage the dynamic and complex interaction between humans and environments populated with physical (real) and virtual (digital) objects of interest. So far, many proposed approaches have adhered to a devicecentric stance when including virtual objects into the ambient ...

Complex SoC imply the seamless integration of numerous IPs performing different functions and operating at different clock frequencies. The integration of several heterogeneous components into a single system gives rise to new challenges. Major issue includes controlling the clock frequencies of the different modules. As chips become faster and larger, designers face significant challenges incl...

The design and implementation of a capability secure multiparadigm language should be guided from its conception by proven principles of secure language design. In this position paper we present the Oz-E project, aimed at building an Oz-like secure language, named in tribute of E [MMF00] and its designers and users who contributed greatly to the ideas presented here. We synthesize the principle...

In our previous studies into web design, we found that pens, paper, walls, and tables were often used for explaining, developing, and communicating ideas during the early phases of design. These wall-scale paper-based design practices inspired The Designers’ Outpost, a tangible user interface that combines the affordances of paper and large physical workspaces with the advantages of electronic ...

In both business training and higher professional education there is a clear shift towards competencybased learning to cope with fast technological and societal changes. Competencies can be construed as abilities that enable learners to recognize and define new problems in their domain of study and future work as well as solve these problems (Kirschner, van Vilsteren, Hummel, & Wigman, 1997). A...

The two expressions “The cumulative hierarchy” and “The iterative conception of sets” are usually taken to be synonymous. However the second is more general than the first, in that there are recursive procedures that generate some illfounded sets in addition to wellfounded sets. The interesting question is whether or not the arguments in favour of the more restrictive version—the cumulative hie...