Integrating Information Systems Components: A Situation-Driven Approach1

Integration of new components into existing information systems (IS) is a challenging problem mainly because of the data sharing. In this paper we propose a situation-driven approach for IS components (IS-COTS) integration into existing IS. We claim that such an approach has to take into account a large number of situations and therefore has to be built by applying situational method engineering principals and defined as a collection of reusable method chunks. The main contribution of this work consists of the metamodel for ISCOTS definition, the specification of the requirements for the proposed approach and the illustration of our approach with three method chunks.