Poltak S. Lumbanbulus

Index of Information Systems Journals

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/9.html

The Index is now an electronic book with an ISBN, published by Deakin University. At present the Index contains information on 455 journals, of which 415 are still active.

http://lamp.infosys.deakin.edu.au/journals/

posted by Poltak S. Lumbanbulus @ 8:46 AM

Major Issues Facing Information Systems Researchers

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/8.html

Over 1200 issues from Round-1 have been synthesized into a summary set of ISSUES FACING INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCHERS. We thank Round-1 respondents, and now invite you ALL to participate in *** ROUND-2 *** by expressing your views on the summary issues listed at...
http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/ais-issues
(this will require less than 15 minutes of your time). We seek with Round-2 to reach as many I.S. researchers as possible, regardless of affiliation (you need not be a member of AIS).

posted by Poltak S. Lumbanbulus @ 12:35 PM

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posted by Poltak S. Lumbanbulus @ 8:50 PM

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC BUSINESS

http://www.inderscience.com/sample.php?id=38

The Full text of the following articles is freely available:

• A validation of the customer information satisfaction instrument for digital market context.
  
• E-measurement: an integrated methodology for measuring the performance of e-services.
  
• Electronic marketplaces: an empirical study in the UK healthcare sector.
  
• E-health: applying business process reengineering principles to healthcare in Canada.
  
• Is cybermediation really the future or risk?
  
• Transaction automation on the internet: open electronic markets, private electronic markets and supply network solutions
  

posted by Poltak S. Lumbanbulus @ 7:39 PM

MIS Faculty Offer Survey

http://www.pitt.edu/~galletta/salsurv.html

The main focus is on U.S. Assistant Professors, given the numbers, the currency complications, and the situation with many schools outside the U.S. where many professors must supplement their earnings with consulting.

posted by Poltak S. Lumbanbulus @ 4:57 PM

Need Applied Case(s) for Intro to IS course

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/6.html

Compiled by Andrea Carugati, IÉSEG School of Management, March 2005.

I usually give to my students in Introduction to IS (it is the first undergrad course in IS for them) a simple case to solve. I want them to have an idea of the difference between data and applications and to understand TPS, MIS and DSS in practice. So, for example, in the past I gave them to do an hotel reservation system in Excel. I gave them a basic system to improve. They had to create a searchable DB of clients, register bookings, deplete stock, create invoices (TPS), they had to make overview graphs (MIS), and have the system suggest a discount rate (DSS).

posted by Poltak S. Lumbanbulus @ 2:23 PM

Crisis of Identity

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/5.html
(Ilia Bider)

I recently came across a number of papers on "crisis of identity". My general impression was that while trying to solve the issue, too many efforts had been spent to connect the solution to the historical roots and to the name "Information Systems". Has anybody tried to solve the problem of IS-field definition based on synchronous "state of affairs" only (e.g., based on the current bulk of papers produced in the field in the last 10 years)?

Personally, I have a feeling (without much research on the topic) that a solution can be simple. If we agree that a field can be defined by its subject and by its method, one suggestion could be as follows. Subject - real life organizations including private companies, public sector, non-profit organizations, etc. (with or without any IT systems). Method - system approach (quite vague but still). This can lead us to "IS research" investigates "the behaviour of real life organizations as systems". If we accept this hypothesis, is there anything that does not belong to IS but satisfies the definition, or does belong to IS but does not satisfy the definition?

posted by Poltak S. Lumbanbulus @ 2:05 PM

Social Science Readings for MIS Courses

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/4.html

I would like to know if there should be a separate senior/master
class that discusses Social Science issues like "Philosophy,
Paradigms, Epistemology, and Ontology". Or, should those issues
be inserted in a "Research Methodology" class?

Is it safe to argue that "Burrell and Morgan's Sociological
Paradigms and Organizational Analysis" (Heineman 1979 Ch. 1-3)"
is more than enough for what an MIS fellow needs to know?

Last, I am interest to collect a list of articles in Research
Methodology and Philosophy. Please send me 5-20 titles of what
are believed to be "must read" and "classical".

posted by Poltak S. Lumbanbulus @ 10:00 AM

Implementation Of Business Rules

http://geocities.com/lumbanbulus/3.html
(ISWorldNet Summary of Ilia Bider)

We are currently investigating ways of implementing business
rules in a computer system. We would appreciate very much any
information on the publications that deal with the issue. At this
stage, we are looking mostly for the works that describe actual
implementation of business rules methodology in experimental or
industrial systems. Most interesting for us are the works that
describe a language for expressing business rules along with an
algorithm/program that can interpret/use the rules in an
operational business environment.

posted by Poltak S. Lumbanbulus @ 10:36 AM