Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. The aim of the Conference is to provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences between academia and industry, and to stimulate exploration of new solutions.

A Revised Perspective on Documentation Practices in the Modern Organisation.- Towards a Dialectic Understanding of Enterprise Systems – Vendor Challenges and Contradictory Rhetoric.- Understanding Strategic ISD Project in Practice – An ANT Account of Success and Failure.- How Can Organizations Achieve Competitive Advantages Using ERP Systems Through Managerial Processes?.- Novel Approach to BCG Analysis in the Context of ERP System Implementation.- Approach to Enterprise Knowledge Base Development.- Co-designing Models for Enterprises and Information Systems – A Case for Language Integration.- The Integration of Functional Decomposition with UML Notation in Business Process Modelling.- The Framework for Adaptable Data Analysis System Design.- A Comparative Review of Approaches for Database Schema Integration.- Strategic Use of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in Sports: The Rosenborg Case.- Towards Knowledge Management Oriented Information System: Supporting Research Activities at the Technical University.- An Architecture for Highly Available and Dynamically Upgradeable Web Services.- Distributed Service Development in Personal Area Networks.- Using a SOA Paradigm to Integrate with ERP Systems.- SOA-MDK: Towards a Method Development Kit for Service Oriented System Development.- An Analysis of the Internal Structure and its Development of Virtual Organizations in the Grid.- Mobile Systems Development: Exploring the Fit of XP.- Implementation of Server on Grid System: A Super Computer Approach.- Customizing Groupware for Different Collaborative Needs.- Proposal for a System Based on the Universal Design Approach for Providing Tourism Information by Linking RFID and GIS.- Industrial Automated Fingerprint-Based Identification System.- Database Architectures:Current Trends and their Relationships to Requirements of Practice.- The IT Culture as an Obstacle to the Adoption of an ERP: Case of a High-Tech SME.- An Analysis of Communication Technologies for Distributed Embedded Systems in Industrial Process Automation.- How to Identify Objectives and Genres in E-Democracy Projects: Learning from an Action Case Study.- Replacing a Human Agent by an Automatic Reverse Directory Service.- Topic Identification by the Combination of Fuzzy Thesaurus and Complexity Pursuit.- Long-term Preservation of Electronic Information – A study of Seven Swedish Governmental Organizations.- The Managing and Complex Querying of the Digital Medical Images Collections.- Semantic Execution of BPEL Processes.- MEO Ontology Infrastructure.- A Semantic-Based Web Service Composition Framework.- Community-Based Partnerships in the Design of Information Systems: The Case of the Knowledge Commons.- ICT Solution and Network Capabilities Development: The Role of the Codification Process in the KMP Experience.- Ontology as an Information Base for a Family of Domain Oriented Portal Solutions.- Business Rules in Clinical Trials.- On Some Inferences Based on Stratified Forward Chaining: An Application to E-Government.- Requirements Determination for Knowledge Management Systems in Information Technology Outsourcing Relationships.- Using Concept Maps in Adaptive Knowledge Assessment.- Term Clustering and Confidence Measurement in Document Clustering.- Automation of the Ontology Axioms Transformation into Information Processing Rules Model.- Using Common Process Patterns for Semantic Web Service Composition.- Categories Extraction for Reuse in Semantic Applications and Profile Based Recommendation Service.- Knowledge and Decision-Making within Software Projects.

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 Practice – ISD’2005 Conference. These latest volumes on Information Systems Development examine the exchange of ideas between academia and industry and aims to explore new solutions. The field of Information Systems Development (ISD) progresses rapidly, continually creating new challenges for the professionals involved. New concepts, approaches and techniques of systems development emerge constantly in this field. The seven conference tracks highlighted at the Fourteenth International Conference on Information Systems Development – ISD’2005 Conference:   - Co-design of Business and IT - Communication and Methods - Human Values of Information Technology - Service Development and IT - Requirements Engineering in the IS Life-Cycle - Semantic Web Approaches and Applications - Management and IT

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Systems Development Examines the exchange of ideas between academia and industry Explores new solutions Meets challenges in Information Systems Development