[AISWorld] CFP: special issue on SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SYSTEMIC THINKING – RESEARCH AND TEACHING ISSUES / IJITSA

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Calls for Papers (special): International Journal of Information
Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA)

Special Issue On: SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SYSTEMIC THINKING – RESEARCH AND
TEACHING ISSUES
Submission Due Date
4/15/2015

http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers-special/international-journal-information-technologies-systems/1098

Guest Editors
Don Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA
George Schell, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, USA
Theo Andrew, Durban University of Technology, South Africa

Introduction
The importance of Systems Analysis and Design (SA&D) for any program of
study in information systems and to the field of Information Technology
(IT) development is well summarized by Harris et al. (2006, p. 242). The
re-emerging interest in SA&D a few years ago (see Parsons et al., (2005))
was evolving in parallel with a renewed interest in the applicability of
systems thinking to Information Systems as a discipline (see Mora et al.,
2007, Petkov et al., 2008). A number of relevant papers on the application
of systemic approaches to Information Systems development were published
over the last seven years in the International Journal on Information
Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA). The body of knowledge in
Soft Systems Methodology has reached a stage of maturity that allows
reflections on how it is applied in practice (see Checkland & Winter
(2006) for general insights on SSM and Rose & Saifullah (2012) for a
recent case study of its application to IS development). The Work System
Theory by Steven Alter, a systemic methodology specifically developed to
bridge the gap in the language of IT practitioners and the clients, has
also been the subject of increasing research (see Alter (2013), Petkov et
al. (2012)). We seek to identify the state of research on applying or
teaching systemic approaches to systems analysis and design in the last
several years and hence this special issue call for papers.

Objective
The objective of the special issue is to disseminate high quality research
that links systemic approaches and systems analysis and design and shows
how that can be practiced in IT projects or how such ideas can be taught
to IT students at undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Recommended Topics
Combining systemic thinking and agile software development
Combining systemic thinking and object oriented analysis
Management of software development, action research and systems thinking
Using systemic action research for studying the effectiveness of object
oriented modeling
Using systemic approaches to decide on development methods enabling
balance between discipline and agility in software development (as
advocated by Boehm &Turner, 2004)
Systems approaches applied to the management of IT outsourcing
Systemic approaches, systems analysis and design science research in IS
Systems Analysis and Design in the curriculum
System Analysis and Design methods and Process Models and Standards (ISO
12207, ISO 29110, CMMI, among others)
System Dynamics Models for supporting System Analysis and Design
Systemic thinking and software requirements analysis
Soft Systems Methodology and action research applied to IS development
Teaching systems approaches to IT students and practitioners
Work System Theory and its applications

References

Alter, S. (2013). Work system theory: overview of core concepts,
extensions, and challenges for the future. Journal of the Association for
Information Systems, 14 (2): 72-121.

Boehm, B. and R. Turner (2004). Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide
for the Perplexed, Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, Inc.

Checkland, P. and Winter, M. (2006). Process and content: Two ways of
using SSM. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 57 (12):
1435-1441.

Harris A. L,  Lang, M., Oates B., Siau, K. (2006) “Systems Analysis &
Design: An Essential Part of IS Education,  Journal of Information Systems
Education, 17 (3): 241-248.

Mora, M. Gelman, O, Forgionne, G. Petkov D and Cano, (2007) J. Integrating
the fragmented pieces in IS research paradigms and frameworks – a systems
approach, Information Resource Management Journal, 20(2): 1-22.

Parsons, J., Iivari, J., &  Hevner A. (2005) Research in Information
Systems Analysis and Design: Introduction to the Special Theme Papers,
Communications of the AIS, 16: 810-813.

Petkov, D., Edgar-Nevill, D, Madachy, R., O’Connor, R. (2008). 
Information Systems, Software Engineering and Systems Thinking? Challenges
and Opportunities. International Journal on Information Technologies and
the Systems Approach 1 (1): 62—78.

Petkov, D., Petkova O., Sewchurran, K., Andrew T. and Misra, R. (2012) The
work system method as an approach for teaching and researching information
systems, in Dwivedi, Y.K, Wade, M.R. and Schneberger, S.L.(eds),
Information Systems Theory: Explaining and Predicting Our Digital Society,
Vol.2, ch.43, Springer, New York. 413-424.

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this
special theme issue on SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND SYSTEMIC THINKING – RESEARCH
AND TEACHING ISSUES on or before April 30th, 2015. All submissions must be
original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED
AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at
http://www.igi-global.com/Files/AuthorEditor/guidelinessubmission.pdf. All
submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis.
Papers must follow APA style for reference citations. All manuscript
submissions to IJITSA should be sent through the online submission system:
http://www.igi-global.com/authorseditors/titlesubmission/newproject.aspx

All submissions and inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
Don Petkov Guest Co-Editor International Journal of Information
Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) E-mail: petkovdon at yahoo.com