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.
See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.
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
The New 'Knowledge Speak': the implications of contested definitions of knowledge and information
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Aspects of Text Mining From Computational Semiotics to Systemic Functional Hypertexts
Alexander Mehler
Top-Down Enterprise Application Integration with Reference Models
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Echoes of Semiotically-Based Design in the Development and Testing of a Workflow System
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Adding Conflict Resolution Features to a Query Language for Database Federations
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Organisational Semiosis: integration and serparation between system features and workpractices
Rodney Clarke
Plugging Files in Database Federations
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Maritime Work and Communication
Peter Andersen
Transitioning Existing Content: inferring organisation-specific documents
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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
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Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? The Use of Non-Text Items in Information Systems Research
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Information Warfare and Ethics
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Evolution of Web-Based Applications Using Domain-Specific Markup Languages
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It Takes More Than Ethics
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Framework Architecture Enabling an Agent-Based Inter-Company Integration with XML
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Cops, Computers and the Right to Privacy in the Information Age: unauthorised access and inapropriate disclosure of information complaints in New South Wales
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Synthesizing Structuration and Institutional Theory: three cases
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Incorporating Database Design in Warnier Method
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Assessing Software Quality Through Visualised Cohesion Metrics
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An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Criticality, Complexity and Organisational Influence on Software Reliability
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A Method for Reverse Engineering of Use Case Realisations in UML
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Electronic Commerce: a battle on regulation, standards transportation media and business integration
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Electronic Commerce and Collaboration Between Competing Firms
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Content Provision on the Web: an economic challenge for TV stations
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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
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Using Abduction to Evolve Inconsistent Requirements Specification
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Inter-Organisational Systems, Strategy and Structure: the case for planning environments
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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)
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Issues of Page Representation and Organisation in Web Browser's Revisitation Tools
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The Long Term Effects of Electronic Commerce and Data Interchange on Firms
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Addressing Organisational Issues in Requirements Engineering Practice: lessons from action cases
Jim Hughes and Trevor Wood-Harper
Cursor Control Device Characteristics
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An Integrated, Probabilistic Framework for Requirement Change Impact Analysis
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Ecological Interface Design for Anaesthesia Monitoring
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A Hybrid Parallel Execution Model for Logic Based Requirement Specifications (Invited Paper)
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Adapting the Locales Framework for Heuristic Evaluation of Groupware
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Realising Requirements in Product - Line Development Using O-O Frameworks (Invited Position Paper)
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The Integrated Decision Model in Emergency Dispatch Management and It's Implications for Design
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Database Issues in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
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Editorial - Selected papers from OZCHI
Jan Scott and Barney Dalgarno
The Origin of the Year 2000 Date Problem: an alternative hypothesis
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Understanding Organisational Learning in Military Headquarters: findings from a pilot study
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Constructing Multidatabase Collections Using Extended ODMG Object Model
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Object Oriented Analysis: a voyage of discovery
Elizabeth Kemp
EFTPOS Impacts on Branch Banking: an extra organisational analysis
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A Generative Approach for Building Database Federations
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Evaluation of Workflow Management Systems - A Meta Model Approach
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An Empirical Examination of Project Leadership Style in an Information Systems Environment
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Speech Act Based Communication and Information Modeling with Demo
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An Investigation of Information Technology-Enabled Remote Management and Remote Work Issues
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The Australian Information Systems Research Community: an analysis of mainstream publication outlets
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An Investigation into the Feasibility of Tasmanian Stonefruit Growers Employing Electronic Commerce
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The Dynamics of Establishing Organisational Web Sites: some puzzling findings
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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
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Going Soft on Information Systems Evaluation
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Revisiting the Usability of Graphical Displays: an experimental approach
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Evaluating Method Engineer Performance: an error classification and preliminary empirical study
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Reassessing Function Points
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A Pilot Study of Small Business's Perception of Vendor Services: are these associated with small business IT educational requirements
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A Fresh Look at Integrated Business Applications - Neither Package nor Custom - Made
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Strategic Systems? Only When They Work!
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Standardising the Information Technology Environment at Telstra Corporation: a case study
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Assessing Software Cost Estimation Models: criteria for accuracy, consistency and regression
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Towards Guidelines for Development and Management of Transnational Information Systems
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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
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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