An increasing number of transnational information systems (TIS) is being developed and is operational. This paper describes a study that attempted to gather information from an empirical setting as a basis for theory building. The authors have studied three cases in an attem t to take some early steps towards guidelines for the development and management of TIS. General conclusions based on the...

The implementation of higher education studies is not a simple matter. However the presence of specialized curriculum recommendations can make implementation easier. Web engineering is an important discipline that is well worth the implementation of higher education studies, but, at present, no specialized curriculum recommendations on this subject have been developed. This paper gives voice to...

Requirements Engineering (RE) constitutes a critical discipline within Software Engineering. The quality of requirements is the backbone of project execution since the following phases strongly rely on it. Nowadays, industries are more then ever facing the problem that the RE process is highly volatile because it depends on the customer’s capabilities, on the used process models, and on the typ...

GEOOOA is an object-oriented requirements engineering method with geo-primitives which are specially suited for GIS-specific requirements. Since the applicability and success of any software engineering method depends heavily on appropriate tool support, we propose the GEOOOA-tool, a CASE-tool supporting the development of GEOOOA-models. In this paper, we briefly report on the editors, browsers...

The University of the United Arab Emirates (UAEU) commissioned an international panel of experts to devise a model curriculum for their new College of Information Technology. The model has a university core in the freshman year, an IT core in the second year, and a professional concentration in one of seven degree programs in the third and fourth year. The seven degrees are computer science, co...

UML is known as one of the most common methods in software engineering. Since this language is semi-formal, many researches and efforts have been performed to transform this language into formal methods including Petri nets. Thus, the operation of verification and validation of the qualitative and nonfunctional parameters could be achieved with more ability. Since the majority of the real world...

UML is known as one of the most common methods in software engineering. Since this language is semi-formal, many researches and efforts have been performed to transform this language into formal methods including Petri nets. Thus, the operation of verification and validation of the qualitative and nonfunctional parameters could be achieved with more ability. Since the majority of the real world...

Requirements Engineering (RE) constitutes a critical discipline within Software Engineering. The quality of requirements is the backbone of project execution since the following phases strongly rely on it. Nowadays, industries are more then ever facing the problem that the RE process is highly volatile because it depends on the customer’s capabilities, on the used process models, and on the typ...

Conceptual modelling is situated in the broader view of information systems requirements engineering. Requirements Engineering (RE) explores the objectives of different stakeholders and the activities carried out by them to meet these objectives in order to derive purposeful system requirements and therefore lead to better quality systems i.e. systems that meet the requirements of their users. ...