Emerging Systems Approaches in Information Technologies: Concepts, Theories and Applications

✍ Scribed by David Paradice, David Paradice

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 420
• Series: Advances in Information Technologies and Systems Approach A
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Through a systematic view of technologies, researchers are now finding it less complicated to examine, predict, and explain complex interactions between fields such as engineering and computer science. Emerging Systems Approaches in Information Technologies: Concepts, Theories, and Applications presents innovative research findings utilizing the incorporation of the systems approach into fields such as systems engineering, computer science, and software engineering. Containing philosophical evaluations and issues related to complexity, this publication provides academicians, practitioners, and researchers with the first resource that fully emphasizes the integration of this approach.

✦ Table of Contents

IGI Global - Emerging Systems Approaches in Information Technologies (October 2009) (ATTiCA)......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 16
Toward an Interdisciplinary
Engineering and Management
of Complex IT-Intensive
Organizational Systems......Page 26
A Question for Research......Page 50
On the Study of Complexity
in Information Systems......Page 64
Importance of Systems
Engineering in the Development
of Information Systems......Page 76
Towards a Wider Application
of the Systems Approach
in Information Systems and
Software Engineering......Page 92
Pluralism, Realism, and Truth......Page 111
Information-As-System in
Information Systems......Page 124
An Analysis of the Imbursement
of Currency in a Debt-Based
Money-Information System......Page 144
A Complex Adaptive Systems-
Based Enterprise Knowledge
Sharing Model......Page 162
A Conceptual Descriptive-
Comparative Study of Models
and Standards of Processes
in SE, SwE, and IT Disciplines
Using the Theory of Systems......Page 181
Integrating the Fragmented
Pieces of IS Research Paradigms
and Frameworks......Page 207
System-of-Systems
Cost Estimation......Page 229
Could the Work System
Method Embrace Systems
Concepts More Fully?......Page 239
Information and Knowledge
Perspectives in Systems
Engineering and Management
for Innovation and
Productivity through Enterprise
Resource Planning......Page 252
A Critical Systems View of
Power-Ethics Interactions in
Information Systems Evaluation......Page 282
Information Technology Industry
Dynamics......Page 299
Using a Systems Thinking
Perspective to Construct and
Apply an Evaluation Approach
of Technology-Based
Information Systems......Page 319
The Distribution of a
Management Control System
in an Organization......Page 335
Making the Case
for Critical Realism......Page 354
Compilation of References......Page 370
About the Contributors......Page 410
Index......Page 413