The Australasian Journal of Information Systems
The Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS) is an international quality, peer reviewed journal covering innovative research and practice in Information Systems. Specifically, the journal seeks to publish 'interesting and sufficiently rigorous' research that is sufficiently grounded in the “So What?” question.
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Co-Editors-in-Chief
Professor Michael Davern, The University of Melbourne, Australia,
Associate Professor Stuart Black, The University of Melbourne, Australia
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Recent Content
A Study of Journal Publication Diversity within the Australian Information Systems Sphere
Carmine Sellitto
A Ranking List for Information Systems Journals
Julie Fisher and Graeme Shanks
Power Relationships that Lead to the Development of Feral Systems
D. V. Kerr and Luke Houghton
The Alignment of Business and Information Technology Strategy in Australia
Jovita Gartlan and Graeme Shanks
Information Systems Outsourcing Relationship Model
Richard Flemming and Graham Low
The Development of a B2G Online Authentication Standard: a design perspective of the policy consultation process
John Campbell
Information Technology and Aesthetics: Passive and Active Dimensions
John D. Haynes and David Bryan Paradice
AJIS Editorial
Craig McDonald
The State of Information Systems in Australian Universities – South Australia Report
Andy Koronios and Paula Swatman
The State of IS in Australian Universities – New South Wales Report
Jim Underwood and Ernie Jordan
Case Study: The State of Information Systems in Australian Capital Territory Universities
Shirley Gregor and Edward Lewis
The 2005 Survey of Information Systems Research in Australia
Graham Pervan and Graeme Shanks
Case Study: The State of Information Systems in Queensland Universities
Robert W. Smyth and Guy Gable
Information Systems in Western Australian Universities
Craig Standing and Janice Burn
A Review of Information Systems Programs in Universities in Victoria
Carol Pollard and Elsie S. K. Chan
The Information Systems Discipline in Australian Universities: A Contextual Framework
Guy Gable Gable
User Behaviours Associated with Password Security and Management
Kay Bryant and John Campbell
Painting With and Without Numbers: the use of qualitative and quantitative methods to study social learning
Leoni Warne and Celina Pascoe
A Theoretic Basis for IS? The Contribution of ANT
Jim Underwood
Researching Human Experience: video intervention/prevention assessment (VIA)
Jennifer Patashnick and Michael Rich
Grounded Theory and User Requirements: a challenge for qualitative research
Supriya Singh and Kylie Bartolo
A Critique of Generalizability in Interpretive Research
Mike Metcalfe and Maureen Lynch
"Hybrids" and the Gendering of Computing Jobs in Australia
Gillian Whitehouse and Chris Diamond
Diffusion of Innovation - The Adoption of Electronic Commerce by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMES)- A Comparative Analysis
Wayne Pease and Michelle Rowe
Shared Visualizations in Support of Distributed Creative Communities
Alastair Weakley and Ernest Edmonds
Editorial on Qualitative Research
Liisa von Hellens and Jenine Beekhuyzen
A Capabilities Analysis of E-Fulfilment Businesses: transformation in the logistics industry
Janice Burn and Paul Alexander
Systems Thinking About Purpose
Gaye Lewis
3G Multimedia Content Production as Social Communication
Christine Satchell, Supriya Singh, and John Zic
Business Value Creation from IT Investments: towards a process theory of IT governance
Peter Marshall and Judy McKay
Exploring Virtual Enterprises Using Activity Theory
Ronald Beckett
A PDA based Point of Care E-Health Solution for Ambulatory Care
Daniel Walsh and Carole Alcock
Striking a Balance Between Ethics and ICT Governance
Graeme Pye and Matthew Warren
The Foundation Role for Theories of Agency in Understanding Information Systems Design
Robert Johnston and Simon Milton
Using Cultural Probes to Explore Mediated Intimacy
Jesper Kjeldskov, Martin Gibbs, Franks Vetere, Steve Howard, Marcus Bunyan, and Karen Mecoles
A Descriptive Analysis of Decision Support Systems Research Between 1990 and 2003
David Arnott and Graham Pervan
Realist and Postmodernist Perspectives on Information Systems Research: points of connection
Phillip Dobson and Peter Love
The Relevance of Value Net Integrator and Shared Infrastructure Business Models in Managing Chronic Conditions
Susan Lambert
Penetration Testing Professional Ethics: a conceptual model and taxonomy
Justin Pierce, Ashley Jones, and Matthew Warren
Desktop Computing - Distributed Cognition in a Tax Office
Martin Nielsen and Susanne Bødker
Altered Images: the relations between design representation and design practic
Susan Keller and Ross Smith
The Significance of Electronic Commerce to Firms' Operations in Relation to Business Location: an empirical investigation
Uchenna Eze and A. Lee Gilbert
The Virtual Shopping Experience: using virtual presence to motivate online shopping
Carolyn Chin and Paula Swatman
Australian Hackers and Ethics
M. J. Warren and W. Hutchinson
"Help Me Pull That Cursor" A Collaborative Interactive Floor Enhancing Community Interaction
Peter Krogh, Martin Ludvigsen, and Andreas Lykke-Olesen
The Buywell Way: seven essential practices of a highly successful multi-channel e-tailer
Mary Tate and Beverley Hope
E-Commerce in Saudi Arabia: adoption and perspectives
Sadiq Sait and Khalid Al-Tawil
Requirements Engineering and Software Project Success: an industrial survey in Australia and the U.S
June Verner and Karl Cox
ICT Integrity: bringing the ACS code of ethics up to date
Michael Bowern, Oliver Burmeister, Don Gotterbarn, and John Weckert
Design Theory in Information Systems
Shirley Gregor
Supporting Topic Map Creation Using Data Mining Techniques
Witold Abramowicz and Tomasz Kaczmarek
On Understanding Evaluation of Tool Support for IS Development
Björn Lundell and Brian Lings
Consensus Making in Requirements Negotiation: the communication perspective
Jenny Price and Jacob Cybulski
Ethics in Information Systems
Matthew Warren
Designing Systems for E-Commerce
Shona Leitch and Matthew Warren
The Meaning of Tacit Knowledge
Kit Dampney and Peter Busch
Usable Security and E-Banking: ease of use vis-a-vis security
Morten Hertzum, Niels Jørgensen, and Mie Nørgaard
Requirements Engineering: a close look at industry needs and a model curricula
Oliver Minor and Jocelyn Armarego
How to Develop a Multi-Grounded Theory: the evolution of a business process theory
Mikael Lind and Goran Goldkuhl
Considering the Problem of Insider IT Misuse
Steven Furnell and Aung Htike Phyo
Editorial - Selected Papers from the Information Systems Foundations Conference (ISF)
Shirley Gregor and Dennis Hart
Continuous Integration and Quality Assurance: a case study of two open source projects
Jesper Holck and Niels Jørgensen
The Effect of GST on Farm Management Information Systems and Business Management Skills
Tony Lewis and Christopher Bell
Securing XML Documents
Charles Shoniregun and Oleksandr Logvynovskiy
Issues in IT Service-Oriented Requirements Engineering
Sharman Lichtenstein and Lemai Nguyen
Demonstrations of the Activity Theory Framework for Research in Information Systems
Kate Crawford and Helen Hasan
Doing Ethics: A Universal Technique in an Accessibility Context
Christopher Simpson and Liddy Nevile
Electronic Commerce and Market Focus: some findings from a study of Swedish small to medium enterprises
Lejla Vrazalic, Deborah Bunker, Monika Magnusson, and Sten Carlsson
Software Development Methods and Tools: a New Zealand study
Chris Phillips and Elizabeth Kemp
Applying the Australian and New Zealand Risk Management Standard to Information Systems in SMES
Robyn Davidson and Susan Lambert
Creativity, Requirements and Perspectives
Oliver Hoffmann, David Cropley, Paul Swatman, and Lemai Nguyen
Demystifying a Hermeneutic Approach to IS Research
Phyl Webb and Carol Pollard
The Extent to Which Information Communication Technology Careers Fulfil the Career Ideals of Girls
Judy Young
Small Firm Internet Adoption: a market oriented approach
Colin Jones and Rob Hecker
Vernacularism in Software Design Practice: does craftsmanship have a place in software engineering?
Paul Taylor
Consumption of Multiple Concurrent Identities: the need from the instant messaging virtual community
Minh Tran, Yun Yang, and Gitesh Raikundalia
Securing XML Query Processing Storage
Charles Shoniregun and Oleksandr Logvynovskiy
Evading Technological Determinism in ERP Implementation: towards a consultative social approach
Clare Archer-Lean, Jo-Anne Clark, and Donald Kerr
Challenging Dualisms in Female Perceptions of IT Work
Jenine Beekhuyzen and Sue Nielsen
Evaluating the Knowledge Assets of Innovative Companies
Maen Al-Hawari and Helen Hasan
A Model for an Electronic Information Marketplace
Wei Ge and Marcus Rothenberger
Qualitative Research in Information Systems
Liisa Von Hellens, Jenine Beekhuyzen, and Donald Kerr
Student Use of the Internet: an extension of TAM in technical and vocational institutions in Brunei Darussalam
Afzaal Seyal and Mohd. Noah Abd. Rahman
Information and Communications Technology in Asia Pacific Countries: implications for small and medium enterprises in Malaysia
Tim Beal and Moha Abdullah
Editorial - Research on Information Systems Development
Henry Linger and Julie Fisher
Adoption of Online Purchasing Methods in Communities and its Socio-Economic Implications in Regional Central Queensland, Australia
W. J. Taylor, G. X. Zhu, J. Dekkers, and S. Marshall
Exploring Virtual Enterprises Using Activity Theory
Ronald Beckett
A Credit Union Case Study of the Business Value of IS/IT
Graham Pervan and Hilangwa Maimbo
An Exploration of User Interface Designs for Real-Time Panoramic
Patrick Baudisch, Desney Tan, Drew Steedly, Eric Rudolph, Matt Uyttendaele, Chris Pal, and Richard Szeliski
The Australian Government's Abandoned Infrastructure Outsourcing Program: what can be learned?
Anne Rouse
Have SMEs Benefited from E-Commerce?
Simpson Poon
Product Cost Management Structures: a review and neural network modelling
P. Jha and G. Montague
Community Sector Organisations: a digital divide in communication and knowledge creation?
Tom Denison
Realist and Postmodernist Perspectives on Information Systems Research: points of connection
Phillip Dobson and Peter Love
The Management of Computer Systems in Small Business: a preliminary analysis of the issues of importance to managers
Evan Patullock
Accessing Data: methods for understanding mobile technology use
Penny Hagen, Toni Robertson, and Kirsten Sadler
The Role of Information Systems and Technology in Case Management: a case study in health and welfare insurance
Helen Richardson and Beverley Hope
Editorial - Research on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises
Charles Harvie and Boon-Chye Lee
Investigating the Partial Relationships Between Testability and the Dynamic Range-to-Domain Ratio
Zuhoor Al-Khanjari and Martin Woodward
Factors Influencing Information Systems Success in Papua New Guinea Organisations: a case analysis
Limbie Kelegai and Michael Middleton
The Significance of Electronic Commerce to Firms' Operations in Relation to Business Location: an empirical investigation
Uchenna Eze and A. Lee Gilbert
Executive Information Systems and the Top-Officers' Roles: an exploratory study of user-behaviour model and lessons learnt
Emmanuel Ikart
The F@ Framework For Designing Awareness Mechanisms in Instant Messaging
Minh Hong Tran, Yun Yang, and Gitesh Raikundalia
Information Systems Development Contracts: an exploratory study of Australian legal practitioners' and Information Systems professionals' perceptions
Phil Joyce and Ross Smith
Business On-Line? An Empirical Study of Factors Leading to the Adoption of Internet Technologies by Australian SMEs
Peter Slade and Jeanette Van Akkeren
Software Engineering Practices and Tool Support: an exploratory study in New Zealand
Chris Phillips and Jamie Alam
E-Commerce in Saudi Arabia: adoption and perspectives
Sadiq Sait and Khalid Al-Tawil
An Empirical Study of Relationships Between Traditional Usability
Tao Lin, Atsumi Imamiya, and Wanhua Hu
E-Commerce Experiences in the Real Estate Industry: a preliminary study in regional Queensland
Jeanette Van Akkeren
Patterns of Programmers' Use of Computer-Mediated Communications Systems
Chatpong Tangmanee
Steps to Internet Adoption Success: a study of four small regional organisations
Aileen Cater-Steel and Shelly Grist
On Understanding Evaluation of Tool Support for IS Development
Björn Lundell and Brian Lings
Technology for the Humdrum: trajectories, interactional needs and a care setting
Connor Graham, Keith Cheverst, and Mark Rouncefield
From Adoption to Use: the process of appropriating a mobile phone
Jennie Carroll and Steve Howard
A Critical Analysis of the Knowledge Creation Process
Stephen Probert
Don't Leave Patch Management to Chance
Ralph DeFrangesco
Human-Computer Interaction in Information Systems
Sandrine Balbo, Todd Bentley, and Penny Collings
Information Privacy: Culture, Legislation and User Attitudes
Sophie Cockcroft
Market Makers' Recognition of Key Success Factors in Electronic Marketplaces
Rosemary Stockdale and Craig Standing
Exploratory Analysis of the Effect of Consultants on the Use of World Wide Web Sites in SMEs
Sigi Goode
The Management of Intuition
John Haynes
Strategic IT Planning, Evaluation and Benefits Management: the basis for effective IT governance
Peter Marshall and Judy McKay
Securing XML Documents
Charles Shoniregun and Oleksandr Logvynovskiy
Rule Mining for Dynamic Databases
A Das and D Bhattacharyya
Stakeholder Safety in Information Systems Research
R. H. Barbour
The Viewpoint Paradigm: a semiotic based approach for the intelligibility of a cooperative designing process
Pierre-Jean Charrel
Success Factors and Measures for Public Sector IS/IT Co-Sourcing Contracts
Erhan Edguer and Graham Pervan
Applying the Australian and New Zealand Risk Management Standard to Information Systems in SMES
Robyn Davidson and Susan Lambert
Women in the Australian IT Industry: where are we now?
Graeme Byrne and Lorraine Staehr
AJIS Editorial
Craig McDonald
AJIS Founding Editor, Rob Macgregor
Robert MacGregor
A Holistic Approach to Knowledge Management and Social Learning: lessons learnt from military headquarters
Leoni Warne, Irena Ali, Celina Pascoe, and Katerina Agostino
Impediments to Inter-Firm Transfer of Best Practice in an Enterprise Systems Context
Greg Timbrell, Natalie Andrews, and Guy Gable
Theory and Practice: thinking styles in engineering and science
Hanspeter Schmid
An Approach to Managing Repurposing of Digitised Knowledge Assets
Diarmuid Pigott, Valerie Hobbs, and John Gammack
Meeting Ethical Demands in a Multi-Agent Project
Joe Thomas and Andy Bissett
From Medieval Philosophy to the Virtual Library: a descriptive framework for scientific knowledge and documentation as basis for document retrieval
Frances Morrissey
Systems of the Information Society
Simon Rogerson
Knowledge Management and Organisational Effectiveness: balancing the mild, the wild and the crazy
Greg Marsh and Martin Burke
Virtuous Hackers: developing ethical sensitivity in a community of practice
Paula Roberts and Jenny Webber
Making the Invisible Visible: modelling social learning in a knowledge management context
Henry Linger and Leoni Warne
Customer Relationship Management System (CRM) and Information Ethics in Call Centres - 'You are the Weakest Link. Goodbye!'
Helen Richardson and Kate Richardson
Exploring Knowledge Management Perceptions Among Information Systems Managers - empirical sense-making through focus group research
David Yuh Foong and Joo Eng Lee-Patridge
Reducing Software Failures: addressing the ethical risks of the software development lifecycle
Don Gotterbam
Knowledge Management Audit - a methodology and case study
Thomas Lauer and Mohan Tanniru
Evaluating the Benefits of Electronic Commerce in Small and Medium Enterprises
Peter Marshall and Judy McKay
Diffusion of Electronic Commerce in Small and Medium Enterprises
Robyn Lawson and Carole Alcock
Editorial - Knowledge Management
Frada Burstein
Understanding the Diffusion of Efficient Consumer Response: an Australian survey study
Sherah Kurnia and John M. Belts
Problems and Issues in Using Computer- Based Support Tools to Enhance 'Soft' Systems Methodologies
Mark Stansfield
A Virtual Organisation Model for E-Government
Janice Bum and Greg Robins
Designing for Website Usability
Chris Procter and Judith Symonds
The Systems Approach to Innovation Studies
Karen Manley
The Use of Influence Diagrams in the Design of Spreadsheet Models: an experimental study
Peter O'Donnell
Consensus Building Through Systems Thinking: the case of policy and planning in healthcare
Kambiz E. Maani
The Evolution of Confusion: soft systems methodology and social theory revisited
L. Houghton and P. W.J. Ledington
A Balanced Approach to Capturing User Requirements in Business- to- Consumer Web Information Systems
M. S. Lane and A. Koronios
Information Warfare: using the viable system model as a framework to attack organisations
Bill Hutchinson and Mat Warren
Tasks and Methods for Software Maintenance: a process oriented framework
Khaled Khan, Bruce Lo, and Torbjom Skramstad
A Technology Acceptance Model for Inter-Organisational Electronic Medical Records Systems
Jocelyn Handy, Richard Whiddett, and Inga Hunter
Using Soft Systems Methodology to Address Supply Chain Management Problems
Gulender Gencoglu and Graeme Altmann
Integrated Multimedia Based Intelligent Group Decision Support System for Electrical Power Network
Ajay Kumar Saxena and S. 0. Bhatnagar
The Impact of Business Size and Business Type on Small Business Investment in Electronic Commerce: a study of Swedish small businesses
Robert MacGregor, L. Vrazalic, M. Magnusson, and D. Bunker
Mobile Data Technology for Small Businesses: needs, uses and adoption
Debra Harker and Jeanette Van Akkeren
Scalable Fault-Tolerant Location Management Scheme for Mobile IP
JinHo Ahn, Sung-Gi Min, and ChongSun Hwang
Mobile Data Technologies and SME Adoption and Diffusion: an empirical study of barriers and facillitators
Jeanette Van Akkeren and Debra Harker
The New 'Knowledge Speak': the implications of contested definitions of knowledge and information
Rob Shields
Aspects of Text Mining From Computational Semiotics to Systemic Functional Hypertexts
Alexander Mehler
Top-Down Enterprise Application Integration with Reference Models
Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Wilhelm Hasselbring, and Mike Papazoglou
Echoes of Semiotically-Based Design in the Development and Testing of a Workflow System
Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, Cecilia Kramer Vieira da Cunha, Raquel Oliveira Prates, and Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa
Adding Conflict Resolution Features to a Query Language for Database Federations
Kai-Uwe Sattler, Stefan Conrad, and Gunter Saake
Organisational Semiosis: integration and serparation between system features and workpractices
Rodney Clarke
Plugging Files in Database Federations
Uwe Hohenstein and Andreas Ebert
Maritime Work and Communication
Peter Andersen
Transitioning Existing Content: inferring organisation-specific documents
Arijit Sengupta and Sandeep Purao
Ethics in Research
Mark Williams
A Methodology for Evaluating User Perceptions of the Delivery of ICT Services: a comparative study of six UK local authorities
Les Worrall, Dan Remenyi, and Arthur Money
Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? The Use of Non-Text Items in Information Systems Research
Alison Parkes
Information Warfare and Ethics
M. J. Warren and W. Hutchinson
Evolution of Web-Based Applications Using Domain-Specific Markup Languages
Guntram Graef and Martin Gaedke
It Takes More Than Ethics
Chris Simpson
Framework Architecture Enabling an Agent-Based Inter-Company Integration with XML
Klement Fellner and Klaus Turowski
Cops, Computers and the Right to Privacy in the Information Age: unauthorised access and inapropriate disclosure of information complaints in New South Wales
Mike Enders and Lily Enders
Synthesizing Structuration and Institutional Theory: three cases
Jason Thatcher, Mark Srite, Manolis Diakourakis, and David Kuhlmeier
Incorporating Database Design in Warnier Method
Donald Chand
Assessing Software Quality Through Visualised Cohesion Metrics
Timothy Shih, Ming-Chi Lee, Teh-Sheng Huang, and Lawrence Deng
An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Criticality, Complexity and Organisational Influence on Software Reliability
Paul Bowen, Jon Heales, and Anne Speed
A Method for Reverse Engineering of Use Case Realisations in UML
Dragan Bojic and Dusan Velasevic
Electronic Commerce: a battle on regulation, standards transportation media and business integration
Kim Andersen, Niels Bjorn-Andersen, and Niels Juul
Electronic Commerce and Collaboration Between Competing Firms
Eberhard Stickel
Content Provision on the Web: an economic challenge for TV stations
Claudia Loebbecke
Planning and Designing Web- Based Electronic Commerce: a case study in the insurance industry
Rolf Teubner and Stefan Klein
Automating Requirements Refinement with Cross-Domain Requirements Classification
Jacob Cybulski and Karl Reed
Using Abduction to Evolve Inconsistent Requirements Specification
Bashar Nuseibeh and Alessandra Russo
Inter-Organisational Systems, Strategy and Structure: the case for planning environments
Pat Finnegan, Robert Galliers, and Philip Powell
The Evolution of Electronic Marketplaces: an exploratory study of internet-based electronic within the American Independent Insurance Agency system
Andrew Burton and John Mooney
Requirements Evolution and Reuse Using the Systems Engineering Process Activities (SEPA)
K. Suzanne Barber and Thomas J. Graser
Issues of Page Representation and Organisation in Web Browser's Revisitation Tools
Andy Cockburn and Saul Greenberg
The Long Term Effects of Electronic Commerce and Data Interchange on Firms
François Bergeron and Louis Raymond
Addressing Organisational Issues in Requirements Engineering Practice: lessons from action cases
Jim Hughes and Trevor Wood-Harper
Cursor Control Device Characteristics
James Phillips and Thomas Triggs
An Integrated, Probabilistic Framework for Requirement Change Impact Analysis
Simon Lock and Gerald Kotonya
Ecological Interface Design for Anaesthesia Monitoring
Marcus Watson, W. John Russell, and Penelope Sanderson
A Hybrid Parallel Execution Model for Logic Based Requirement Specifications (Invited Paper)
Jeffrey J. P. Tsai and Bing Li
Adapting the Locales Framework for Heuristic Evaluation of Groupware
Saul Greenberg, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Carl Gutwin, and Simon Kaplan
Realising Requirements in Product - Line Development Using O-O Frameworks (Invited Position Paper)
Garry Froehlich, James Hoover, and Paul Sorenson
The Integrated Decision Model in Emergency Dispatch Management and It's Implications for Design
B.L. William Wong
Database Issues in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Chris Rainsford and John Roddick Roddick
Editorial - Selected papers from OZCHI
Jan Scott and Barney Dalgarno
The Origin of the Year 2000 Date Problem: an alternative hypothesis
Richard Kingsford and Leone Dunn
Understanding Organisational Learning in Military Headquarters: findings from a pilot study
Leoni Warne
Constructing Multidatabase Collections Using Extended ODMG Object Model
Adrian Skehill Mark Roantree
Object Oriented Analysis: a voyage of discovery
Elizabeth Kemp
EFTPOS Impacts on Branch Banking: an extra organisational analysis
Gregory Shailer, Kenneth Stevens, and Hargo Utomo
A Generative Approach for Building Database Federations
Uwe Hohenstein
Applying Quality Costs in a Software Development Environment
I. P. Hollingsworth, W. Keogh, and M. H. Atkins
Testing Hammer and Stanton's Reengineering Success Diagnostic
Felicity Murphy, Peter Seddon, and Sandy Staples
Arguing for PhD Coursework
Mike Metcalfe and Margaret Kiley
Confusion with Diffusion? Unravelling IS Diffusion and Innovation Literature with a Focus on SME'S
Jeanette Van Akkeren and Angele Cavaye
Employee Perception of the Impact of Information Technology Investment in Organisations: a survey of the hotel industry
Bruce Lo and Cede Sri Darma
Advances and Research Directions in Data-Warehousing Technology
Mukesh Mohania, Sunil Samtani, John Roddick, and Yahiko Kambayashi
Tribes of Users and System Developers
Sharon Dingley, Hanifa Shah, and Paul Colder
Strengthen and Support the Maintenance of Object-Oriented Software
Ming-Chi Lee, Timothy Shih, and Teh-Sheng Huang
Refinement of Research Surveying in Software Methodologies by Analogy: finding your patch
Eugene Doroshenko and Felicity Lear
Increased Availability for Networked Software Services
Peter Clutterbuck
Preliminary Insights into the Implementation of Standardised IT in Franchise Systems
Angele Cavaye, Colin McCosker, and Chad Perry
Efficient Mobile Client Caching Supporting Transaction Semantics
IlYoung Chung and Chong-Sun Hwang
Discourse Strategies Model: an initial phase for discovery of the fact-based statements from descriptive texts
Bruce Calway and Ross Smith
The Need for an Applied Computer Ethics Handbook
Daniel Salber
Living with the Internet: ethics in the Noosphere
Emma Rooksby and Diarmuid Pigott
Ethical Issues in Network System Design
Duncan Langford
Special Section Editorial
Robert MacGregor
Ethics and Information Technology
Simon Rogerson
Tool Based Psychology as a Philosophy of Technology
Irina Verenikina and Edward Gould
Structure and Extensions of the User Information Satisfaction Construct
Clive Wrigley, Don Drury, and Ali Farhoomand
Reengineering a Software Review Process with the Functions Based Process Analysis (FPA) Method
Claude Strieker and Jintae Lee
The Tasks of Information Systems Professionals in the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia
Graham Winley, Ang Ang, and Sim Lau
Evaluation of Workflow Management Systems - A Meta Model Approach
Michael Rosemann and Michael zur Muehlen
An Empirical Examination of Project Leadership Style in an Information Systems Environment
Mohan Thite and Pamela Simmons
Speech Act Based Communication and Information Modeling with Demo
Victor van Reijswoud and Hans Mulder
An Investigation of Information Technology-Enabled Remote Management and Remote Work Issues
D. Sandy Staples
The Australian Information Systems Research Community: an analysis of mainstream publication outlets
Gail Ridley, Paula Goulding, and Glenn Lowry
An Investigation into the Feasibility of Tasmanian Stonefruit Growers Employing Electronic Commerce
Stewart Pedersen
The Dynamics of Establishing Organisational Web Sites: some puzzling findings
Celia Romm and Jeanne Wong
Executive Support of Information Technology and Information Systems in Australian Hospitals: an empirical study
Graeme Rose and Robert Reeve
Reengineering in Australia: factors affecting success
Felicity Murphy and Sandy Staples
Evolution of OO Methods: the unified case
Matti Rossi
Going Soft on Information Systems Evaluation
Barry Jackson and Sony Sulaksono
Revisiting the Usability of Graphical Displays: an experimental approach
Dan Hawthorn and Ananth Srinivasan
Evaluating Method Engineer Performance: an error classification and preliminary empirical study
Steven Kelly and Matti Rossi
Reassessing Function Points
G. R. Finnie, G. E. Wittig, and J-M. Desharnais
A Pilot Study of Small Business's Perception of Vendor Services: are these associated with small business IT educational requirements
R. C. MacGregor, D. J. Bunker, J. K. Pierson, and K. A. Forcht
A Fresh Look at Integrated Business Applications - Neither Package nor Custom - Made
Andrea Engelhardt
Strategic Systems? Only When They Work!
Ernest Jordan and David Musson
Standardising the Information Technology Environment at Telstra Corporation: a case study
Carey Butler and Peter Weill
Assessing Software Cost Estimation Models: criteria for accuracy, consistency and regression
Bruce Lo and Xiangzhu Gao
Towards Guidelines for Development and Management of Transnational Information Systems
Angele Cavaye, Paul Mantelaers, Wander van de Berg, and Arre Zuurmond
Evaluation of Database Modeling Methods for Geographic Information Systems
Thanasis Hadzilacos and Nectaria Tryfona
The Effects of Normalisation of the Satisfaction of Novice End-User Querying Databases
Conrad Benedict, Paul Bowen, Colin Ferguson, and Fiona Rohde
A Comparison of Five Alternative Approaches to Information Systems Development
Rudy Hirschheim, Juhani livari, and Heinz Klein
Opportunities for Knowledge Discovery in Spatio-Temporal Information Systems
Tamas Abraham and John Roddick
Inquiring Organisations
James Courtney, David Croasdell, and David Paradice
Using Artificial Neural Networks and Function Points to Estimate 4GL Software Development Effort
G. E. Wittig and G. R. Finnie
Towards the Development of Effective and Flexible Information Systems
Aphrodite Tsalgatidou, Dimitris Gouscos, and Constantin Halatsis
Synthesizing Expert Systems and Operations Research Techniques: system classification and review
H. Raghav Rao, B. P. Lingaraj, and Maithili Rao
What Happens When Designers Don't Play by the Rules: towards a model of opportunistic behaviour in design
A. Khushalani, R. Smith, and S. Howard
A Partial Test and Development of Delone and Mclean's Model of IS Success
Peter Seddon and Min-Yen Kiew
A Methodology for Measuring the Risk Associated with A Software Requirements Specification
Trevor Moores and Ralph Champion
Data Warehouse Architecture for DSS Applciations
V. J. Anand and Himawan Gunadhi
A Content Specification for Business Process Models
Akhilesh Bajaj and Sudha Ram
How Strategic are Strategic Information Systems?
David Avison, Alan Eardley, and Philip Powell
Computerised Support for Requirements Modelling in FOOM
Terence Tan and Paul Swatman
Philosophical and Conceptual Perspectives on the Design of Group Support Systems
Karma Sherif and James Courtney
The Role of E-Mail in an Industrial Dispute
Nava Pliskin and Celia Romm
Groupware and Business Process Improvement: technology enabled organisational learning
Nereu Kock Jr and Robert McQueen
Grammatical Conversion of Descriptive Narrative - an application of discourse analysis in conceptual modelling
Bruce Calway and James Sykes
Software Quality Certification: identifying the real obstacles
Megan Baker and Anne Rouse
Visual Navigation of Complex Information Spaces
Sarah North, Max North, and Nazir Warsi
Software Quality Management and Organisational Fit
S. H. Nielsen
Justifying Investment in Information Resource Management
Daniel Moody and Graeme Simsion
Quality Management Systems in Australian Software Houses: some problems of sustaining creativity in the software process
Liisa von Hellens
The Evolution of an Information System for Managerial Use: a longitudinal study
Helen Hasan and Edward Gould
Implementing Business Process Redesign: early lessons from the Australian experience
Marianne Broadbent and Carey Butler
Defining System Requirements: a critical assessment of the Niam conceptual design procedure
Peta Darke and Graeme Shanks
An Information Technology Tool to Support Negotiating Teams
Jose A. Pino and Jose Montanana
Knowledge Analysis of Tasks as a Basis for Interface Design of Complex Developmental Systems
Alan Colman and Ying Leung
A Novel Interface for Information Exploration and Visualisation
Max North, Sarah North, and
Meta-Information Systems: a design study
Mark Madsen, Iain Fogg, and Clive Ruggles
Information Systems Contribution to Business Performance: a study of information systems executives' attitudes
Dieter Fink and Falantina Tjarka
Assessing the Graphical and Algorithmic Structure of Hierarchical Coloured Petri Net Models
George Benwell and Stephen MacDonell
Forecasting Demand Using Survival Modeling: an application to US prisons
Joanna Baker and Pamela Lattimore
Information Systems and Corporate Memory: design for staff turn-over
Colin Sharp and Neil Lewis
Whistleblowing: an ethical dilemma
Joan K. Pierson, Karen A. Forcht, and Ben M. Bauman
Data Modelling and Conceptual Modelling: a comparative analysis of functionality and roles
T. William Olle
Cyclomatic Complexity: theme and variations
Brian Henderson-Sellers, Yagna Raj Pant, and June M. Vemer
A Review of Object Oriented Database Concepts and their Implementation
Narciso Cerpa and Roy Dean