IT is now 144 years since John Henry Newman began the public! ccmres that resulted in his
book Tbe Idea ofa University. Much has changed in that timc and Newman would have …

A very negative development, however, is the increased employment of “force” as a euphemism
for what is actually violence, even the extreme violence of warfare. The euphemistic use …

This paper describes a reflective and empirical investigation by staff involved in delivery of
the Heriot-Watt University Information Systems undergraduate degree. It looks particularly at …

… CAJ Coady: I think that one of the positive changes since I first began thinking and writing
on this issue has been the increased awareness of the subtle, often hidden effects of …

There is much discord and contradiction in academia amongst those who teach on Information
System Programmes. Much of the argument is based upon content and structure. This …

It is widely agreed that information systems is a field requiring knowledge and competence,
spanning business processes, information infrastructure and technical processes, uniting …

… In light of these considerations, Coady and colleagues … Coady and colleagues interpreted
these results as evidence … Coady and colleagues only examined perception of a single …

The purpose of a rich picture is to help the analyst gain an appreciation of the problem
situation. As it is understood in Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), rich pictures are used as a …

There is a strong tendency in the scholarly and sub-scholarly literature on terrorism to treat it
as something like an ideology. There is an equally strong tendency to treat it as always …

This chapter examines whether there is more to teaching students how to identify object-oriented
(OO) concepts in domain analysis than has perhaps previously been appreciated. …