MSIS 2006 Implementation Review in Bulgaria

MSIS 2006 is the last version of model curriculum and guidelines for graduate degree programs in information systems, that ACM, AIS, AITP and IFIP have proposed. At Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of University of Sofia, the oldest Master degree program is in Information systems. Its curriculum has been developed following MSIS 2006 predecessor recommendations. In this paper, specifics in implementation of MSIS 2006 are discussed with focus on Service-Oriented Architecture as a backbone of the new recommendations

INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN COURSE WITH PROJECTS BASED ON REAL CUSTOMERS REQUIREMENTS

Establishing a learning process that reflects various specifics of Information systems area is a challenge for every Information Systems educational program. Creating practical skills at student education requires significant efforts universities cannot afford using only traditional forms of education. This is particularly true when it comes to information systems development, where the expectation of the users play significant role in defining systems requirements. To address this challenge for an important issue – information systems analysis and design, we apply a specific approach of involving real user’s requirements for student projects as a part of students’ education. The study contributes to the pedagogical and theoretical aspects of education in Information systems area by adapting methods and models for successful information systems analysis and design process. To practitioners, this paper presents directions for using effective requirements engineering activities

Semantic discovery and reuse of business process patterns

Patterns currently play an important role in modern information systems (IS) development and their use has mainly been restricted to the design and implementation phases of the development lifecycle. Given the increasing significance of business modelling in IS development, patterns have the potential of providing a viable solution for promoting reusability of recurrent generalized models in the very early stages of development. As a statement of research-in-progress this paper focuses on business process patterns and proposes an initial methodological framework for the discovery and reuse of business process patterns within the IS development lifecycle. The framework borrows ideas from the domain engineering literature and proposes the use of semantics to drive both the discovery of patterns as well as their reuse