Advanced Principles for Improving Database Design, Systems Modeling, and Software Development

Recent years have witnessed giant leaps in the strength of database technologies, creating a new level of capability to develop advanced applications that add value at unprecedented levels in all areas of information management and utilization. Parallel to this evolution is a need in the academia and industry for authoritative references to the research in this area, to establish a comprehensive knowledge base that will enable the information technology and managerial communities to realize maximum benefits from these innovations. Advanced Principles for Improving Database Design, Systems Modeling, and Software Development presents cutting-edge research and analysis of the most recent advancements in the fields of database systems and software development. This book provides academicians, researchers, and database practitioners with an exhaustive collection of studies that, together, represent the state of knowledge in the field.

Keng Siau is the E. J. Faulkner Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL). He is currently serving as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Database Management and editor-in-chief for Advances in Database Research. In addition to being an internationally renowned systems analysis and design, and database researcher, Professor Siau is ranked as one of the top ten e-commerce researchers in the world (Kim et al. 2006). He won numerous research, teaching, and service awards e.g., the IFIP Outstanding Service Award in 2006. He received his PhD degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he majored in management information systems and minored in cognitive psychology. His master and bachelor degrees are in computer and information sciences from the National University of Singapore. Dr. Siau has over 200 academic publications. He has published more than 95 refereed journal articles, and these articles have appeared (or are forthcoming) in journals such as Management Information Systems Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, Information Systems, ACM s Data Base, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on Education, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Decision Support Systems, Journal on Information Technology, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Behaviour and Information Technology, Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce, and others. In addition, he has published more than 100 refereed conference papers (including 10 ICIS papers), edited/co-edited more than 15 scholarly and research-oriented books, edited/co-edited 10 proceedings, and has written more than 20 scholarly book chapters. He served as the Organizing and Program Chairs of the International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD) (1996 20005). He was on the Organizing Committee of AMCIS 2005 and is serving on the Organizing Committee of AMCIS 2007. He also serves on numerous advisory boards and journal editorial boards.

John Erickson is an assistant professor in the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His research interests include UML, software complexity and Systems Analysis and design issues. He has published in journals such as the CACM, JDM, and in conferences such as AMICIS, ICIS WITS, EMMSAD, and CAiSE. He has also co-authored several book chapters.