To teach Analysis of Information Systems in a classroom is a great challenge due to the fact that it is taught outside the context of the Organizations where in general these systems appear. A large extent of analisys and design of systems depends on tools, experiences and situations which are hard to carry out in a classroom. We try to show through a method which is based on the experience has...

Computer Science) Toward Attack-Resistant Distributed Information Systems by Means of Social Trust

PURPOSE Much of the information needed for radiology teaching and research is not in the picture archiving and communication system but distributed in hospital information systems throughout the medical enterprise. Our objective is to describe the design, methodology, and implementation of a data warehouse to integrate and make accessible the types of medical data pertinent to radiology researc...

Land Information Management Systems (LIM systems) for many African countries should be designed without a cadastral layer, as most countries have only about 1 percent cadastral coverage and the average GDP per capita of the continent is USD665. Joining LIM systems with cadastral systems has prevented the technical innovation required for the development of practical land information systems for...

The discussion on the importance of Semantic Web for the promotion of Information systems is extremely interesting. In this first newsletter we tried through personal invitations to outline only few aspects of the convergence of SW and IS. As we already mentioned in the editorial of NEWS, the Inaugural Issue of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems Journal (at the en...

This article provides a discussion on architecture-driven information systems engineering from a BusinessIT alignment perspective. We do so by trying to develop a more fundamental understanding of the essence of Business-IT alignment. We try to find this understanding by viewing Business-IT alignment as the alignment between two co-evolving systems. An alignment that should take place at the st...

OBJECTIVE To celebrate over 30 years of health information systems' (HIS) evolution by bringing together pioneers in the field, members of the next generation of leaders, and government officials from several developing nations in Africa to discuss the past, present, and future of HISs. METHODS Participants gathered in Le Franschhoek, South Africa for a 2 1/2 day working conference consisting...

Information systems development methodologies have been the subject of much attention over the years. A substantial body of research has focused on the need to develop methodologies that support viewing information systems as social constructs, and information systems development (ISD) as a social process. But if development is a social process, what principles/ideals should inform it? Recent r...