Alignment is a very wide subject that can be used to support an organization's information
system. Many authors have dealt with this topic according to various dimensions, including …

For long-lived systems, there is a need to address evolvability (ie a system's ability to easily
accommodate changes) explicitly during the entire lifecycle. In this paper, we undertake a …

Software systems are designed according to guidelines and constraints defined by business
rules. Some of these constraints define the allowable or required values for data handled by …

One of the goals of Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is to improve software maintainability
as businesses become more agile, and thus underlying processes and rules change more …

Strategic alignment among digital services and organizational objectives is crucial for IT, if
the enterprise is to use it for competitive advantage. The motivation for the work presented in …

Background and purpose: Operational alignment, the alignment between business
processes (BPs) and information systems (ISs), is a well-acknowledged requirement for …

Data entry forms use completeness requirements to specify the fields that are required or
optional to fill for collecting necessary information from different types of users. However …

Few studies have examined interactions between IT change and organizational change
during information systems evolution (ISE). We propose a dynamic model of ISE where …

The decision on whether to proceed to top-down or bottom-up during software development
has a strong and underestimated impact on the quality of the final product including its later …

One of the most important challenges that software engineers (designers, developers) still
have to face in their everyday work is the evolution of working database systems. As a step …