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From Sustainable Information System with a Farandole of Models to Services

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This chapter is an overview of the development of the information systems domain since its infancy. This domain is recognized as very important for the development of private companies and public organisations and therefore it more and more needs solid concepts and sharp ways of thinking. This chapter relates some breakthroughs and tries to place the IS domain in the centre of several worlds. From a simple mediator between the activities world and the informatics world, IS becomes a creator of values, in particular with the emergence of services. But, it requires a shift with several dimensions in the usual way of thinking about activities and informatics and this is the origin of the difficulty. IS complexity comes from its trans-disciplinary nature, which requires several different models to describe it. Besides, all these models must be articulated together to constitute a coherent IS – that is a farandole of models. When a model changes, due to its environment, the other models have to change too in order to keep the farandole coherent. The IS is then sustainable.

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    Notably, the members of the CAISE advisory board: Professor Janis Bubenko Jr., Professor Colette Rolland, Professor Arne Solvberg.

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    Management Information Systems.

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    Align – to arrange in a line or so as to be parallel; to adjust (parts of a mechanism, for example) to produce a proper relationship or orientation; to ally (oneself, for example) with one side of an argument or cause; to adhere to a prescribed course of action; to move or be adjusted into proper relationship or orientation (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/align).

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    Often called integrity constraint.

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    For example existential dependency: a class A is existentially dependent on another class B if any object of A is related with an object of B permanently; another kind of relation is specialization: A is a specialization of B if A is existentially dependent on B and if an B object can be related to only one A object.

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    Michel Léonard

  2. University of Geneva, CUI, Battelle – bâtiment A, 7, route de Drize, CH-1227, Carouge, Switzerland

    Jolita Ralyté

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Léonard, M., Ralyté, J. (2010). From Sustainable Information System with a Farandole of Models to Services. In: Nurcan, S., Salinesi, C., Souveyet, C., Ralyté, J. (eds) Intentional Perspectives on Information Systems Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12544-7_1

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