Systems Analysis and Design for Advanced Modeling Methods : Best Practices

The field of systems analysis and design is experiencing ongoing changes that significantly impact the way information systems are being analyzed and designed in practice. Systems Analysis and Design for Advanced Modeling Methods: Best Practices collects work representing leading research in the area of systems analysis and design practices and methodologies. This Premier Reference Source provides researchers, academicians, and practitioners with a useful overview and related references in the field.

Akhilesh Bajaj is Chapman Associate Professor of MIS, at the University of Tulsa. He received a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 1989, an MBA from Cornell University in 1991, and a Ph.D. in MIS (minor in Computer Science) from the University of Arizona in 1997. Dr. Bajaj s research deals with the construction and testing of tools and methodologies that facilitate the construction of large organizational systems, as well as studying the decision models of the actual consumers of these information systems. He has published articles in several academic journals such as Management Science, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Systems and the Journal of the Association of Information Systems. He is on the editorial board of several journals in the MIS area. His research has been funded by the department of defense (DOD). He teaches graduate courses on basic and advanced database systems, management of information systems, and enterprise wide systems.

Stanis aw Wrycza (PhD) has been the Head of the Department of Business Informatics at the University of Gdansk (Poland) since 1991. Dr. Wrycza is an established participant and leader in many other Information Systems professional organizations; he is the Vice President and founding member of the Information Systems Academic Heads International (ISAHI), the President of the Polish Chapter of Association for Information Systems, initiator and first President of Polish Research Society for Business Informatics. He teaches on a variety of subjects at the University of Gdansk, including information systems design, databases, e-business, and customer relationship management. He has authored more than 150 publications in Polish and English. Dr. Wrycza s research interests include business informatics, e-learning, the digital economy, systems analysis and design, UML, and electronic data exchange. He is also the member of editorial boards of highly-ranked international professional journals.