Information System Concepts: An Integrated Discipline Emerging (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology) [Hardcover]

Eckhard D. Falkenberg (Editor), Kalle Lyytinen (Editor), Alexander A. Verrijn-Stuart (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0792378067 | ISBN-13: 978-0792378068 | Publication Date: April 30, 2000 | Edition: 1

This book contains the papers, discussion notes and workshop reports of `ISCO4', the fourth international conference in a series instigated by the former IFIP Working Group 8.1 Task Group FRISCO (FRamework of Information System COncepts). The FRISCO Report - published in 1998 - forms a significant contribution to the long-lasting quest of our community towards developing a scientific outlook in the field of information systems. ISCO4 provided a forum for debate on that report and on a range of related issues:

Reflections on and criticism of conceptual frameworks (such as FRISCO);

Fundamental and generic information system concepts;

Novel information system design approaches;

Approaches to integrate and synthesise information system design methods.

The three workshops addressed the following themes:

• The conceptual foundations of information systems;
• Innovation and standardisation in the information system field;
• How do our concepts shape our practice, and vice versa?

ISCO4 was held in the Lorentz Center of Leiden University, The Netherlands, in September 1999, and was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Its proceedings are of prime interest to all those working in information systems, especially researchers, lecturers, and students, but also practitioners, such as tool and method developers.

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About the Author

Eckhard Falkenberg is Professor Emeritus of Information Systems and lives in Germany Kalle Lyytinen is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland Alex Verrijn-Stuart is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Leiden University, The Netherlands

Product Details

• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0792378067
• ISBN-13: 978-0792378068
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 1 inches
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