Advances in Information Systems Development New Methods and Practice

Advances in Information Systems Development: Bridging the Gap between Academia and Industry, Volumes 1 and 2, are the collected proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Information Systems Development: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practi

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Advances in Information Systems Development New Methods and Practice for the Networked Society Volume 1 Edited by

Gabor Magyar and Gabor Knapp Budapest University of Technology Budapest, Hungary

Wita Wojtkowski and W. Gregory Wojtkowski Boise State University Boise, Idaho USA

Jože Zupančič University of Maribor Kranj, Slovenia

Gabor Magyar Budapest University of Technology and Economics Budapest 1111 Muegyetem rkp. 1-3. Hungary [email protected]

Gabor Knapp Budapest University of Technology and Economics Budapest 1111 Muegyetem rkp. 1-3. Hungary [email protected]

Wita Wojtkowski Boise State University 1910 University Drive Boise, Idaho 83725 USA [email protected]

W. Gregory Wojtkowski Boise State University 1910 University Drive Boise, Idaho 83725 USA [email protected]

Jože Zupančič University of Maribor Systems Development Laboratory SI-6400 Presernova 11 Slovenia [email protected]

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Systems Development—New Methods and Practice for the Networked Society (ISD 2006), held in Budapest, Hungary, August 31–September 2, 2006. Volume (1): Part 1 of a two-volume set.

ISBN-13 978-0-387-70760-0

e-ISBN-13 978-0-387-70761-7

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Preface

This book is the outcome of the Fifteenth International Conference on Information Systems Development, ISD’2006, held in Budapest, Hungary between 31st August – 2 nd September 2006. The theme of the 2006 conference was “New Methods and Practice for the Networked Society”. This theme expresses that we are living in a new era when practically all of our information resources are organized and managed in a networked environment. Information technology has reformed and restructured the workflows of companies and other organizations over the past several decades, and will continue to do so well into the future. This is particularly important now, as we see the emergence of complex networked information systems. “Being digital” by Nicholas Negroponte was the watchword at the dawn of the information society. “Being online” is now at the very heart of our everyday life. New postulates and requirements are stemming from this nature of society of tod