[AISWorld] Contents of International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT) - Vol. 9, No. 2

Wed Jul 10 12:38:15 EDT 2013

The contents of the latest issue of:

International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT)

Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association

Volume 9, Issue 2, April - June 2013

Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically

ISSN: 1548-3657 EISSN: 1548-3665

Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA

www.igi-global.com/ijiit

Editor-in-Chief: Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University, USA

PAPER ONE

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) Adoption Challenges

Ghassan Beydoun (School of Information Systems and Technology, University of
Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia), Dongming Xu (UQ Business School,
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia) and Vijayan
Sugumaran (Department of Decision and Information Sciences, Oakland
University, Rochester, MI, USA, & Department of Global Service Management,
Sogang University, Seoul, Korea)

Predictions for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) to deliver
transformational results to the role and capabilities of IT for businesses
have fallen short. Unforseen challenges have often emerged in SOA adoption.
They have fallen into two categories: technical issues stemming from service
components reuse difficulties and organisational issues stemming from
inadequate support or understanding of what is required from the executive
management in an organisation to facilitate the technical rollout. This
special issue of IJIIT presents a collection of papers which attempt to
resolve some of these issues. This paper first explores and analyses the
hindrances to the full exploitation of SOA.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/service-oriented-architectures-soa-adoptio
n/77870

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=77870

PAPER TWO

Self-Service Technology Banking Preferences: Comparing Libyans' Behaviour in
Developing and Developed Countries

Fouad Omran Elgahwash (Centre for Social Technical Information Systems,
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia) and Mark Bruce Freeman
(Centre for Social Technical Information Systems, University of Wollongong,
Wollongong, NSW, Australia)

Technology-enabled banking services are currently being implemented in
developing countries. This research examines how citizens of developing
countries adapt to these changes in their banking services. Technological
expansion has been occurring in the Arabic region since the 1980s; however,
the focus has been on trade and services offered by industries. The banking
sector is an information intensive industry and should be at the forefront
of advanced use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The
banking sector has started to utilize technology-enabled services through
the Internet and mobile devices, with the goal of improving customer
relationships by empowering customers. One common trend is increasing the
use of self-service technologies, which are facilitated by ICTs. This study
discusses how Libyan banks should focus their technology strategies to
relate to customers, reduce costs and improve services, achieved through the
use of a survey completed by customers who have become accustomed to
technology-enabled banking services in the developed world. The current
availability of technology-enabled banking services in Libya is limited.
This paper presents a comparative review of the use of technology-enabled
banking services by Libyans when they are in Libya and whilst they are in
Australia (a foreign developed country where Libyans are furthering their
education).

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/self-service-technology-banking-preference
s/77871

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=77871 

PAPER THREE

A Framework for Assessing Enterprise-Wide SOA Implementation Readiness

Mahshitah Abdul-Manan (School of Information Systems and Technology,
University of Wollongong,Wollongong, NSW, Australia) and Peter Hyland
(School of Information Systems and Technology, University of
Wollongong,Wollongong, NSW, Australia)

Many vendors have acclaimed Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a better
way to design and build enterprise-wide information systems (EWIS). While
these claims may be true in the private sector, there is scant evidence in
the literature for the same success in the public sector. The adoption of
Enterprise-wide SOA (ESOA) as the dominant development paradigm within an
organization often requires significant organizational changes, which are
difficult to achieve in the public sector, with its strict hierarchies and
departmental independence. Although many government departments are
beginning to adopt this new paradigm, the literature does not provide a
suitable ESOA implementation readiness framework for use in the public
sector. This research proposes a framework based on Critical Success Factors
(CSFs) and a CSF scorecard to evaluate an organisation's ESOA implementation
readiness. The framework and scorecard were tested in a test case in the
Malaysian government, and the results validate the accuracy and usefulness
of both the CSF Framework and the CSF Scorecard.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/framework-assessing-enterprise-wide-soa/77
872

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=77872

PAPER FOUR

Group Process Losses in Agile Software Development Decision Making

Sharon Coyle (Whitaker Institute for Innovation and Societal Change,
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland), Kieran Conboy (Lero and
Business Information Systems, National University of Ireland, Galway,
Ireland) and Thomas Acton (Lero and Business Information Systems, National
University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland)

The importance of effective decision making in organisations has been well
documented. Despite the many benefits associated with groupwork, groups are
often subjected to process losses such as groupthink, which in turn have a
negative impact on group decision making. Limited prior research has
suggested that such process losses may be even more prevalent in agile
software development characterised by highly cohesive, self-managing teams.
This study is one of the first to rigorously investigate the group process
losses most prevalent in agile software development teams and assesses how
the implementation of agile practices can reduce the impact or occurrence of
such losses.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/group-process-losses-agile-software/77873

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=77873

PAPER FIVE

A Comparative Analysis of the Integration of SOA Elements in Widely-Used
Enterprise Architecture Frameworks

Ayed Alwadain (Department of Science and Engineering, Queensland University
of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, & King Saud University, Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia), Erwin Fielt (Department of Science and Engineering,
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia), Axel
Korthaus (School of Management and Information Systems, Victoria University,
Melbourne, VIC, Australia) and Michael Rosemann (Department of Science and
Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia)

In recent years, enterprise architecture (EA) has captured increasing
interest as a means to systematically consolidate and manage various
enterprise artefacts in order to provide holistic decision support for
business/IT alignment and business/IT landscapes management. To provide a
holistic perspective on the enterprise over time, EA frameworks need to
co-evolve with the changes in the enterprise and its IT over time. In this
paper the authors focus on the emergence of Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA). There is a need to integrate SOA with EA to keep EA relevant and to
use EA products to help drive successful SOA. This paper investigates and
compares the integration of SOA elements in five widely used EA frameworks:
Archimate, The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF), Federal Enterprise
Architecture Framework (FEAF), Department of Defence Architecture Framework
(DoDAF) and the Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework (MODAF). It
identifies what SOA elements are considered and their relative position in
the overall structure. The results show that services and related elements
are far from being well-integrated constructs in current EA frameworks and
that the different EA frameworks integrated SOA elements in substantially
different ways. The results can support the academic EA and SOA communities
with a closer and more consistent integration of EA and SOA and support
practitioners in identifying an EA framework that provides the SOA support
that matches their requirements.

To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/article/comparative-analysis-integration-soa-eleme
nts/77874

To read a PDF sample of this article, click on the link below.

http://www.igi-global.com/viewtitlesample.aspx?id=77874

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International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT) in
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aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database:
http://www.igi-global.com/eresources/infosci-journals.aspx.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Mission of IJIIT:

The advent of the World Wide Web has sparked renewed interest in the area of
intelligent information technologies. There is a growing interest in
developing intelligent technologies that enable users to accomplish complex
tasks in web-centric environments with relative ease, utilizing such
technologies as intelligent agents, distributed computing in heterogeneous
environments, and computer supported collaborative work. The mission of the
International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT) is to
bring together researchers in related fields such as information systems,
distributed AI, intelligent agents, and collaborative work, to explore and
discuss various aspects of design and development of intelligent
technologies. This journal provides a forum for academics and practitioners
to explore research issues related to not only the design, implementation
and deployment of intelligent systems and technologies, but also economic
issues and organizational impact. Papers related to all aspects of
intelligent systems including theoretical work on agent and multi-agent
systems as well as case studies offering insights into agent-based problem
solving with empirical or simulation based evidence are welcome.

Coverage of IJIIT:

The International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT)
encourages quality research dealing with (but not limited to) the following
topics:

.         Agent-based auction, contracting, negotiation, and ecommerce

.         Agent-based control and supply chain

.         Agent-based simulation and application integration

.         Cooperative and collaborative systems

.         Distributed intelligent systems and technologies

.         Human-agent interaction and experimental evaluation

.         Implementation, deployment, diffusion, and organizational impact

.         Integrating business intelligence from internal and external
sources

.         Intelligent agent and multi-agent systems in various domains

.         Intelligent decision support systems

.         Intelligent information retrieval and business intelligence

.         Intelligent information systems development using design science
principles

.         Intelligent Web mining and knowledge discovery systems

.         Manufacturing information systems

.         Models, architectures and behavior models for agent-oriented
information systems

.         Multimedia information processing

.         Privacy, security, and trust issues

.         Reasoning, learning, and adaptive systems

.         Semantic Web, Web services, and ontologies 

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Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript submission
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All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Vijayan Sugumaran at sugumara at oakland.edu
<mailto:%20sugumara at oakland.edu> 

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Vijayan Sugumaran, Ph.D.

Professor of Management Information Systems

Department of Decision and Information Sciences

School of Business Administration

Oakland University

Rochester, MI 48309

Phone: +1 248 370 2831

Fax: +1 248 370 4275

Email:  <mailto:sugumara at oakland.edu> sugumara at oakland.edu

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