The ISD 2005 Conference will be organised in different research tracks and a special industry track according to the conference theme “Bridging the Gap between Academia and Practice”. Below are prespecified some important tracks with examples of relevant topics. More tracks could be added and the topics of interest would be expanded in line with the submitted papers.

1. Co-design of Business and IT
   - Design of information systems and business processes in concert
   - Developers and users as joint co-designers
   - Methods, models and tools as co-instruments in co-design
   - Continual use-based redesign of information systems
   and business processes

 

2. Communication and Methods
   - Communicative processes
   - Learning, understanding, representation and knowledge
   - Testing and evaluation; modelling and meta-modelling
   - Communication technology, media and mediation

 

3. Human Values of Information Technology
   - Privacy issues in network-based services
   - Multimedia experiences in the Information Society
   - Digital bridges for empowerment
   - Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and prototyping tools

*This track is organised in co-operation with the research centre HumanIT at Karlstad University.

 

4. Management and IT (MIT)
   - Knowledge management; approaches and solutions
   - Enterprise systems in a management perspective
   - Leadership, information strategy and productivity aspects

 

5. Requirements Engineering (RE) in the IS Life-Cycle
   - Non-functional requirements for information systems
   - RE for development, selection, and integration of COTS products
   - Human and organisational aspects of RE in ISD

 

6. Semantic Web Approaches and Applications
   - Knowledge management and ontology design
   - Semantic web technologies
   - Semantic based web services and grid services
   - Semantic based web information management
   and enterprise integration

 

7. Service Development and IT
   - Customer involvement and learning with customers in
   - IT-supported service development
   - The roles of Self-Service Technology (SST) in development
   of complex services
   - The roles of IT in enhancing the firm’s operations within
   networks/alliances/partnerships

 

8. Integration of Information Technology in Practice (Industry Track)
   - Management of IT resources and business processes
   - Methods for integration of business systems
   - Information technology as solution for electronic communication