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International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA)

An Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
Published Semi-Annually. Est. 2008.
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DOI: 10.4018/IJITSA, ISSN: 1935-570X, EISSN: 1935-5718
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Stowell, Frank and Manuel Mora. "International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA)." (2008). Web. 24 May. 2012. doi:10.4018/IJITSA

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Stowell, F., & Mora, M. (2008). International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA). doi:10.4018/IJITSA

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Stowell, Frank and Manuel Mora. "International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA)," (2008), accessed (May 24, 2012), doi:10.4018/IJITSA

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Description

The International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) is a refereed, international journal on applied and theoretical research, aimed at providing coverage of the foundations, challenges, opportunities, problems, trends, and solutions encountered by both scholars and practitioners in the field of information systems when applying systems approach. IJITSA emphasizes the systemic worldview of managerial, organizational and engineering interaction facets provided by modern complex information systems and information technologies. The articles published in IJITSA will focus on information systems (IS) and their interactions with software engineering, systems engineering, complex systems, and philosophy of systems science issues for a better understanding and development of the information systems discipline.
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Journal Contents

Volume 5: 1 Issues (2012)
Volume 4: 2 Issues (2011)
Volume 3: 2 Issues (2010)
Volume 2: 2 Issues (2009)
Volume 1: 2 Issues (2008)
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Mission

The International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA) is an academic and practitioner journal created to disseminate and discuss high quality research results on information systems and related upper and lower level systems as well as on its interactions with software engineering, systems engineering, complex systems and philosophy of systems sciences issues, through rigorous theoretical, modeling, engineering or behavioral studies in order to explore, describe, explain, predict, design, control, evaluate, interpret, intervene and/or develop organizational systems where information systems are the main objects of study and the systems approach – any variant –is the main research method and philosophical stance used.
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Reviews and Testimonials

“This journal provides an outlet for research that truly takes a systems-oriented perspective. The perspective supported by this journal is one that recognizes the complexity of today’s information systems; systems which require multiple perspectives of issues to be accommodated and resolved.”
- David Paradice, Florida State University, USA

“…the journal's positioning is a very important one for the future development of systems thinking…”
- Yasmin Merali, The University of Warwick, UK

“This journal will fill a widely felt need to develop theory and practice in a critical aspect of organizational management.”
- Russell L. Ackoff, University of Pennsylvania, USA

“Information centricity and complexity are keys to innovative and economic products for our global economy. Systems engineering has become the engineering of the 21st century to meet these needs. Outlets such as the IJITSA are desperately needed to advance Systems Engineering and related professions and disseminate best practices.”
- John Farr, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

"This new journal should provide a very much needed and welcome source of multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary thought having to do with the systems approach and associated lateral thinking related to contemporary information systems and information technology issues."
- Andrew P. Sage, George Mason University, USA

"IJITSA addresses an important gap in IS research and practice. The IS discipline has done far too little to exploit the system nature of systems in organizations. Although called systems, information systems in organizations are often viewed as tools that "users" use. IS success is often gauged as though it were about acceptance and usage of a tool. "System development" is often conceived as building computerized tools that satisfy information requirements of idealized business processes. IJITSA will make a significant contribution to the IS field by focusing more attention on systems and the systems approach."
- Steven Alter, University of San Francisco, USA

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Indices

Bacon's Media Directory
CSA Illumina
GetCited
Library & Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD)
SCIRUS
The Index of Information Systems Journals
The Standard Periodical Directory
Ulrich's Periodicals Directory
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Topics Covered

Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Systemic studies on the diverse types of IS (TPS, MIS, OAS, DMSS, KBS, KMS, IS, ERP, EIS, IOS, BPIS, among others)
  • Systemic studies on the diverse types of IT organizational settings (personal computing, home-based computing, end-user computing,  office computing,  corporative computing, inter-organizational computing)
  • IT-based system systemic design methodologies
  • IT-based system systemic evaluation methodologies
  • IT-based system systemic implementation methodologies
  • Systemic evaluation and review of IT (technologies, tools, technological trends)
  • International standards and models for IT-based systems and its relations with systems approach
  • Systemic innovative IT-based systems studies addressing real problems
  • Challenges and ill-structured worldwide problems linked to IT-based systems from a systems approach view (green IT, national security, human rights, global education, mobile education, global economy,  interaction between developed and developing organizations, e-digital gap,  service systems,  cultural differences, among others)
  • Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for engineering issues for IT-based systems
  • Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for managerial issues for IT-based systems
  • Systemic frameworks, models, and theories for organizational issues for IT-based systems
  • Interdisciplinary systemic relevant themes from information systems and software-systems engineering
  • Interdisciplinary systemic relevant themes from information systems and complex systems
  • Systems methodologies for basic and applied research
  • Systems methodologies for consulting activities
  • IT curriculum systemic studies on undergraduate and graduate programs
  • IT systemic studies on accreditation undergraduate and graduate programs
  • IT systemic studies on Faculty issues (tenure promotions, profile of PhDs, types of institutions (research-oriented vs teaching-oriented ones)
  • Multi-method systemic research methods to study IT-based systems
  • Debates on research methods and systems approach for IT-based systems
  • Philosophical themes related with research methods and systems science for IT-based systems

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Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography

Frank Stowell
Frank Stowell is Professor of Systems and Information Systems at the University of Portsmouth (UK). Before moving to Portsmouth, he was Director of Campus at De Montfort University at Milton Keynes. He has a PhD in organizational change and is an expert in systems thinking and practice. He has published papers and texts in the field and presented papers at a number of international conferences in Europe and the United States. He has supervised a large number of research projects and continues to supervise and examine PhD research. He has been a specialist reviewer for the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education within the UK. He is Co-Chair of the Systems Practice for Managing Complexity project (http://spmc.open.ac.uk/), past President of the UK Academy of Information Systems and board member for 9 years. He is Vice President of the UK Systems Society (http://www.ukss.org.uk/) and responsible for external relations. Prior to his academic career, he was a consultant in a central government sponsored management systems development group and has experience in defining and developing IT supported management information systems. His area of interest includes the application of systems ideas to the development of IT supported information systems. His present research is in the development of ways, in which the client can lead and control the development of their information system (http://www.ciiis.port.ac.uk/index.htm).

Manuel Mora
Manuel Mora is a Full Professor and Researcher in the IS Department in the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico. Dr. Mora holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering (1984) and M.Sc. in Computer Sciences (Artificial Intelligence area, 1989) from Monterrey Tech (ITESM) and an Eng.D. in Engineering (Systems Engineering area, 2003) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has published about 50 research papers in international top conferences, research books, and journals. Dr. Mora is a member of ACM (senior), of IEEE SMC Society and of AIS, and serves in the ERB of several international journals
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Editorial Board

Honorary Editorial Board
Bela A. Banathy, Saybrook Institute, USA
Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute, USA
Ovsei Gelman, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Adolfo Guzmán-Arenas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico
Michael C. Jackson, University of Hull, UK
George J. Klir, State University of New York, USA
Andrew P. Sage, George Mason University, USA
Barry G. Silverman, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Associate Editors
David Brown, University of Lancaster, UK
Robert Cloutier, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Philip Dobson, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Denis Edgar-Nevill, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Miroljub Kljajic, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Rory O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland

International Editorial Review Board

Systems Engineering
Delen Dursen, Oklahoma State University, USA
Adir Even, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
John Farr, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Moti Frank, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
Leonardo Garrido, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Rafael Gonzalez, Universidad Javierana, Colombia
Ashish Gupta, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA
Walter Huerster, ICT Consultant, Germany
Carlos Legna, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain
James Martin, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Jack Ring, INCOSE, USA
Nick Sizemore, INCOSE, USA
Andrej Skraba, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Javier Suárez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Software Engineering
David Bustard, University of Ulster, Ireland
Gavin Finnie, Bond University, Australia
Carina Gonzalez, Universidad de la Laguna, Spain
Doncho Petkov, Eastern Connecticut State University, USA
Kosheek Sewchurran, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Annette Steenkamp, Lawrence Technological University, USA
Frank Tsui, Southern Polytechnic State University, USA

Information Systems
Steven Alter, University of San Francisco, USA
Jeimy Cano, University of the Andes, Colombia
Timo Kakola, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Evangelos Katsamakas, Fordham University Business School, USA
Paul Lewis, University of Lancaster, UK
Neil McBride, De Montfort University, UK
Wullianallur Raghupathi, Fordham University Business School, USA
Rahul Roy, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
Hans Vanderheijden, University of Surrey, UK

Philosophy and Complex Systems
Rodrigo Cordoba, University of London, UK
James Courtney, Louisiana Tech, USA
Manfred Drack, University of Vienna, Austria
Payam Hanafizadeh, Allameh Tabatabae'i University, Iran
Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Loet Leydesdorff, Amsterdam School of Communication Research, The Netherlands
David Paradice, Florida State University, USA
Eleanor Wynn, Intel Corporation, USA
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