UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj

2007

Abstract

Information systems are in the process of undergoing significant transformations triggered by the Internet technology. However, most existing systems suffer from poor to non-existent documentation, which makes the maintenance process a daunting task even for a skilled software engineer. As a result, software engineers are often faced with the inevitable problem of understanding different aspects of the system before undertaking a simple maintenance task. This paper describes ongoing research in the area of program comprehension that aims at investigating efficient techniques for the understanding of the dynamics of software systems with a particular emphasis on information systems. The proposed approach is based on the analysis of system’s execution traces. The long-term objective is to create effective tool support for software engineers working on maintenance tasks.

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Hamou-Lhadj A. (2007). UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-88-7, pages 498-502. DOI: 10.5220/0002399904980502


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj},
title={UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={498-502},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002399904980502},
isbn={978-972-8865-88-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS
SN - 978-972-8865-88-7
AU - Hamou-Lhadj A.
PY - 2007
SP - 498
EP - 502
DO - 10.5220/0002399904980502