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  • © 1998

Information Systems Development

An Introduction to Information Systems Engineering

  • 1Balanced account of technical and organisational issues involved in IS
    2 Material on tools, techniques and developments is updated
    3 IS management and planing issues are discussed with particular reference to the IS development process

Part of the book series: Computer Science Series (COMPSS)

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Information

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 3-12
    3. Information Systems

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 13-20
    4. Information Systems and Organisations

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 21-28
    5. Information Society and Economy

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 29-35
    6. Information Technology

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 36-45
    7. Information Systems Services Function

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 46-52
    8. Information Systems Engineering

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 53-66
  3. Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
    2. Structured Programming Languages

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 69-75
    3. Object-Oriented Programming Languages

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 76-82
    4. Database Systems

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 83-94
    5. Fourth Generation Environments

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 95-102
    6. Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 109-115
    7. Knowledge Based Systems

      • Paul Beynon-Davies
      Pages 116-123
  4. Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 124-125
    2. Data Analysis

      1. Normalisation
        • Paul Beynon-Davies
        Pages 127-140
      2. Entity-Relationship Diagramming
        • Paul Beynon-Davies
        Pages 141-153

About this book

In this third edition, the author has arranged the material in five major parts: context, tools, techniques, methods, management and discipline.

Within the parts, popular chapters have been retained and updated to reflect modern developments in the area of information systems development. A number of new chapters have been included on topics such as object-oriented analysis and design methods, rapid applications development and business process re-engineering.

Each chapter contains a number of case studies illustrating the frameworks, techniques and concepts discussed. A number of exercises are also included to test the understanding of the material.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Studies, University of Glamorgan, UK

    Paul Beynon-Davies

About the author

PAUL BEYNON-DAVIES spent several years in the information systems industry before taking up an academic post. He is currently reader in Information Systems at the University of Glamorgan. He has written a number of other books on information systems topics and regularly publishers academic papers and professional articles on issues concerning information systems development. Dr Beynon-Davies has acted as a regular consultant to industry for a number of years.

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