Papers by Mohammed Salahat
Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on E-commerce, E-Business and E-Government - ICEEG 2019, 2019
For successful implementations of E-Government, it is critical that information must be available... more For successful implementations of E-Government, it is critical that information must be available and accessible to all citizens regardless any disability and physical limitations. The demand for the wider access to government information and promoting awareness among individuals of the society through this information is the fundamental responsibility of the governmental bodies. E-accessibility is about social inclusion and equal opportunities. E-Government is the use of ICT to transform government by making it accessible, available, effective and efficient to make sure the inclusion of all communities in the society. The current number of disable people around the world is far from the imagination. A large number of population cannot access information due to several disabilities and other barriers. The research in this paper attempts to explore the importance of E-accessibility for the implementation of successful E-Government especially in the United Arab Emirates. The research in this paper claims that a very little importance has been paid to the issues and features of E-accessibility in developing the governmental websites around UAE and large number of population has been ignored through this way.
Information Resources Management Journal, 2007
Business process analysis and modeling is a crucial step in formulating information systems user ... more Business process analysis and modeling is a crucial step in formulating information systems user requirements. The practice of information technology (IT) development does not indicate a lack of problems in spite of the growing number of modeling techniques. This article gives an action research account of formulating and applying a new business process modeling framework to manufacturing processes to guide software development. It is based on a combination of soft systems methodology (SSM) and the Unified Modeling Language (UML) business process modeling extensions suggested by Eriksson and Penker. SSM has been linked to information systems provision in the past. The examination of prior research shows that there is no underlying reasoning about the justification from a methodological point of view of the combination of SSM and UML. This article justifies the mixing of SSM and Eriksson and Penker’s UML extensions using the ideas of Mingers’ Multimethodology. The latter helps to ove...
Transnational Higher Education in Computing Courses
This chapter discusses strategies we have developed for teaching information systems design to mu... more This chapter discusses strategies we have developed for teaching information systems design to multinational groups of students. The focus is on a particular branch of information systems development-database design-which the authors had been teaching for a number of years in their respective institutions. We discuss the way in which we adapted the course content in response to the diverse experiences of a multinational group of students. Database design can be seen as an exercise in modelling a real-world situation. The structure of a database therefore represents the knowledge acquired by its designers through their discussions with various stakeholders. Importantly, the situation under investigation might be perceived differently by individual stakeholders particularly if these have different cultural backgrounds and expectations. The cultural background of the designers themselves may also be of great significance. For these reasons, we take the view that culture is an asset which should be utilised in our teaching. This has led us to an approach based on guided learning within a simulation of a real-world development project. This involves organising students into diverse groups and using a case study that places database design into a sociological and multicultural context. The case study we have developed is based on the services offered by an academic library. There is a great deal of room for discussion in a diverse group about precisely what services students feel an academic library should offer and what their individual experiences have been of libraries they have used prior to joining our course. Some of these discussions relate to the role the library has in the type of teaching and learning strategies employed in the UK which may be different from strategies that the students have encountered before. We report on the way we have used the library case study with a number of multinational groups of students to explore the way in which systems development is a social exercise as well as a technical one.
This paper presents an application of a “Systematic Soft Domain Driven Design Framework” as a sof... more This paper presents an application of a “Systematic Soft Domain Driven Design Framework” as a soft systems approach to domain-driven design of information systems development. The framework use SSM as a guiding methodology within which we have embedded a sequence of design tasks based on the UML leading to the implementation of a software system using the Naked Objects framework. This framework have been used in action research projects that have involved the investigation and modelling of business processes using object-oriented domain models and the implementation of software systems based on those domain models. Within this framework, Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is used as a guiding methodology to explore the problem situation and to develop the domain model using UML for the given business domain. The framework is proposed and evaluated in our previous works, and a real case study “Information Retrieval System for academic research” is used, in this paper, to show further pra...
World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Journal of Computer, Electrical, Automation, Control and Information Engineering, 2016
This paper presents and compares the SSDDD “Systematic Soft Domain Driven Design Framework” to DD... more This paper presents and compares the SSDDD “Systematic Soft Domain Driven Design Framework” to DDD “Domain Driven Design Framework” as a soft system approach of information systems development. The framework use SSM as a guiding methodology within which we have embedded a sequence of design tasks based on the UML leading to the implementation of a software system using the Naked Objects framework. This framework has been used in action research projects that have involved the investigation and modelling of business processes using object-oriented domain models and the implementation of software systems based on those domain models. Within this framework, Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) is used as a guiding methodology to explore the problem situation and to develop the domain model using UML for the given business domain. The framework is proposed and evaluated in our previous works, a comparison between SSDDD and DDD is presented in this paper, to show how SSDDD improved DDD as an a...
Information systems are essential entities for several organizations who strive to successfully r... more Information systems are essential entities for several organizations who strive to successfully run their business operations. One of the major problems faced by the organizations is that many of these information systems fail, and thus the organizations do not achieve their required targets in time. Many of the reasons for the information system failures documented in the literature are related to development methodologies or frameworks that are unable to handle both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ system aspects. In general, the hard issues of the system are considered more significant than the soft issues, however, all the methodologies must be able to deal with all the system and business aspects. This thesis investigates the possibility of developing and evaluating a multimethodology framework that can be used for information systems development in an academic and business environment. The research explores the applicability of such a framework that comprehends both ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ system ...
This paper presents an evaluation of the framework SDDD through teaching information systems deve... more This paper presents an evaluation of the framework SDDD through teaching information systems development module. The framework combined techniques from Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), the Unified Modelling Language (UML), and an implementation pattern. The evaluation is done to find the applicability of the framework as an approach for teaching and developing information systems. Feedback from Msc students of the module "Methods and Modeling" and reflections from the lecturers are presented. Feedback received from all participants are used to enhance the framework development. The results are supported by our previous work proposing the integrated framework as an approach to enhance the understanding of the systems modeling and implementation skills and as an approach for ISD teaching.
This paper presents a pedagogical evaluation of the framework SDDD as a "soft systems" approach t... more This paper presents a pedagogical evaluation of the framework SDDD as a "soft systems" approach to Domain-Driven Design of computer-based information systems development. The framework combined techniques from Soft Systems Methodology (SSM), the Unified Modelling Language (UML), and an implementation pattern. Systems development and teaching evaluations are done to find better framework which can be used for teaching and developing information systems. More Feedback and reflections from the lecturers and Msc students of the module Methods and Modeling are presented. The results are supported our previous work of proposing the framework to enhance the understanding of the business process modeling and implementation into an integrated framework. This is an enhancement of Domain Driven Design approach because new "soft layer" is added and the framework used for teaching further than development as DDD. Comments received from all participants are used to enhance the framework development and for further evaluation in the future.
World Academy of Science, …, 2009
Salahat, Mohammed, Wade, Steve and Ul-Haq, Izhar ... Application of a Systemic Soft Domain-Driven... more Salahat, Mohammed, Wade, Steve and Ul-Haq, Izhar ... Application of a Systemic Soft Domain-Driven Design Framework ... Salahat, Mohammed, Wade, Steve and Ul-Haq, Izhar (2009) Application of a Systemic Soft Domain-Driven Design Framework. World Academy ...
This paper builds on our earlier work in the construction of a systemic framework for developing ... more This paper builds on our earlier work in the construction of a systemic framework for developing information systems. In this paper we apply the framework to the development of a Peer-Tutoring System (PTS) for Introductory Programming courses in our Universities. The framework supports the full development life cycle from business process modelling to software implementation. We use Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) as a guiding methodology within which we have embedded a sequence of design tasks based on the Unified Modelling Language (UML) and Domain-Driven design techniques h Naked Objects Pattern is used as DDD approach. This leads to the implementation of a prototype software application using the Naked Objects framework. We have involved developers and management in reviewing the software system and the approach taken to develop it. The results suggest that the framework can lead to improved business process modelling and software implementation.
Innovation in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences, 2012
This paper reflects on the experience of delivering a module in Information Systems Design to pos... more This paper reflects on the experience of delivering a module in Information Systems Design to postgraduate students. The module has been taught for a number of years but has recently been restructured around a novel systems development framework presented as a pattern language. This restructuring represents a move towards a "scaffolded" approach to delivering the module. We present evidence that this approach has improved both the students' technical skills and their confidence in applying these skills. .
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